Thursday 16 October 2014

Tapsalteerie at the Dundee Literary Festival


The Tapsalteerie stall is coming to a Dundee near you on the 26th of this month. Get yersel down there to get a hold of one of our limited edition copies of "Glasgow Flourishes" by Calum Rodger, which will be launched that day (or just pop by to say hello and hae a news about poetry!).

There's heaps of really inspiring and excellent exhibitors there too, so if you're about in Dundee for the festival we'd really recommend making your way to the Bonar Hall on the Sunday. Find out more on the Ex Libris Wordpress site.

And a tip of the Tapsalteerie hat to the designers of the poster too. Splendid!


Thursday 2 October 2014

Glasgow Flourishes!

We're delighted to announce that our latest publication, "Glasgow Flourishes" by Calum Rodger, will be released at the end of this month. It's our first ever hand-bound publication, trimmed, folded and sewn together by Tapsalteerie's own fair hands.

It's just a short wee pamphlet, coming in at 16 pages and consisting of one poem only. Calum wrote it for his appearance at the recent TedX Glasgow, which you can see here. His performance and the poem itself really is electrifying; we highly recommend you give up five minutes of your time to watch him do his stuff. 

"Glasgow Flourishes" will be published on Sunday 26th October and will be first available through our stall that day at the Dundee Literary Festival's "Ex Libris" book fair. Note that we're only doing a limited edition of 60 copies, each one hand-numbered, so get in there quick if you want one!

We're also currently working with some affa weel-kent writers to produce a compilation of Baudelaire's prose poems in Scots, scheduled for release at the start of next year. The details are only getting finalised at the moment, so we can't say too much more about it just now, but watch this space (as well as our Facebook and Twitter feeds) for more info and sneak previews as they arise.

The latest edition of Northwords Now has some very kind words to say about Tapsalteerie in their review of Tom McGrath's "Sardines", which is described as "an inspired way for a new book producer to break into the Scottish poetry scene". Skip to page 22 if you want to read the review but, of course, we'd encourage you to read the whole magazine if you haven't already.

And finally, we've launched a new YouTube channel, through which you can watch readings from our poets as well as a few other things that tickle Tapsalteerie's fancy. We'll be building up the content as the months go by so do keep checking back.