Where to begin summarising an interview like this! We spoke to Stewart Sanderson and Samuel Tongue about their recent pamphlets and got much more than we bargained for. From thylacines to mountainside verse, sestinas, and the impossibility of originality… Could you tell us a bit about your process and how your poems and/or collections take…
Author: Rebecca Parker
Help us find out more about poetry reading habits
Tapsalteerie are trying to find out a bit more about how people read, and why people buy, poetry pamphlets. We’re hoping that the results will help both poets and publishers to figure out how best to reach readers with their work. We conducted a wee research pilot study at the StAnza poetry festival way back…
“Synchronicity is everything”: An interview with Kate Tough
Kate Tough’s pamphlet of experimental and found poetry, tilt-shift, was published by Tapsalteerie in 2016, and since then has been named runner up for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award 2017, and noted in The Bottle Imp’s Best Scottish Books 2016. You might also know her as the poet behind a 2016 Best Scottish Poem, ‘People…
“Haiku moments can happen anywhere”: An interview with Iain Maloney
To launch Tapsalteerie’s very first Haiku Friday, we spoke to Iain Maloney about his recent first collection of poetry, Fractures, published by Tapsalteerie last year. Maloney was born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland and he currently lives in Japan. He is known for his three novels – The Waves Burn Bright (Freight, 2016), Silma Hill (Freight, 2015)…