Vik Shirley

“Shake the Réka Nyitrai snowglobe and watch the dolls of Hans Bellmer, marmalade lakes, hawk-headed dogs, flamingos and supernovas float and mingle. The moon is at large in these diary entries, dream songs and folk tales, which make up this stunning double-poetry feature from Piżama Press." - Vik Shirley

“diary entries, dream songs, & folk tales”

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We’re eagerly awaiting the double release of Split / Game of Little Deaths by Réka Nyitrai & this blurb by @vikshirley.bsky.social is giving us endless energy

*Sekka Zusetsu*: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) Observations of “snow flowers” made by microscope in Edo-era Japan.

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Thanks greatly to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for including me in his end of year review along with @vikshirley.bsky.social @postpran.bsky.social and many other great writers. A great privilege, as always, to be read and to be enjoyed. Full list at www.neonpajamas.com/blog/favorit...

Relatable content from @vikshirley.bsky.social’s 2024 pamphlet Some Deer.

Haha. Thanks for sharing, Chrissy! 🦌🦌🦌✨✨✨xxx

A huge thank you to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com, @thelincolnreview.bsky.social, @vikshirley.bsky.social & @sublunary.bsky.social for publishing (nominating) my work in 2025. To Rossi Contemporary & Claire Oberst, for exhibiting it & @lauradavispoems.bsky.social for carrying it!

Much anticipated beautiful post today! @vikshirley.bsky.social's Persona Digitalia published by @photoworks-uk.bsky.social: photoworks.org.uk/shop/p5-vik-... @jungcharlotte.bsky.social's "Straitjacket" & Félix Delandre's "Chaos" published by @gregchthomas.bsky.social: oo-press.com/postcard-poe...

some author activity: Banks, Shirley, Unrau, Betts, Barwin + Carpenter, Chris Banks offers his "best Canadian poetry books of 2025" list, via The Woodlot ; Vik Shirley has a new poem up at Burning House Press ; M...

some above/ground press author activity: Chris Banks, Vik Shirley, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Gregory Betts, Gary Barwin + J.R. Carpenter, / @garybarwin.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social ;
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Poets House Showcase - Poets House The Poets House Showcase, a yearly exhibition of over 2,500 poetry books from more than 500 presses, celebrating new poetry publications.

View @vikshirley.bsky.social's new collection as well as many others in the Poets House 30th Showcase Exhibition, currently open!

Photo of Vik Shirley's new book, Persona Digitalia

Inside the book, turned to a page with art. It is titled Ribbon Plexus. It is a page with 9 maroon boxes, containing 81 smaller squares, fitted in to a massive square shape

Inside the book, turned to a page with art. It is titled Ribbon Plexus. It is a page with 9 maroon boxes, fitted in to a massive square shape. Each maroon box, has smaller maroon boxes within it, with detailed images in each box

"Persona Digitalia is a book of pairs, two versions of a treated and duplicated image, each housed in its own grid... They represent the double self. We are often an alternate version[s] of ourselves. The truth is often both things or multiple things." - (@photoworks-uk.bsky.social, 2025)

The Woodcutter by Vik Shirley Nico (1967) by Michael Ochs. Vik Shirley is a poet and writer from Bristol living in Edinburgh . Her collections and chapbooks include: Persona Digitalia (PhotoWorks, 2025), a photo poetr…

Today’s Nico post for @thearsonista.bsky.social is an incredible cut-up poem from @vikshirley.bsky.social ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️

Thank you Ian! 🖤🖤🖤

Been delving into this wonderful treasure trove of postcards by the wonderful @vikshirley.bsky.social Available from the excellent @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ‘s Zimzalla.

virtual event next Saturday for Lit Balm!

going to be reading some surrealist poems alongside my Mercurius Magazine editors

DM me if you'd like a link ❤️

@vikshirley.bsky.social / @postpran.bsky.social

My third book of photo poetry, Persona Digitalia, is published in November! @photoworks-uk.bsky.social 🍂 📷

“hyper-focused, obsessive play w/fragmentation, time shifts, multiple selves & intensity of life thru colour, aesthetic & lens of the neurodivergent mind.”

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Beyond thrilled to have been selected for the inaugural P5 series @photoworks-uk.bsky.social in collab w/David Solo!

My third photo poetry book is coming soon & will be designed by @janeandjeremy.bsky.social!

More details to come & you can read about it here:

photoworks.org.uk/news/p5-phot...

The Surreal-Absurd. A brilliant anthology from Mercurius Press. Honoured and delighted to be included. Lovely to discover lots of new names, too. Huge thanks to the editors Thomas Helm @postpran.bsky.social , @vikshirley.bsky.social and Ben Niespodziany!

This was a blast✨️

Watch it here: youtu.be/SrXQLfeUsbg

Thanks so much to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for hosting and the editorial team of Thomas Helm, @postpran.bsky.social and @vikshirley.bsky.social

some author activity: mclennan, Niespodziany, Jenks, Shirley, Williams, Logan, Kemp-Gee + Young, rob mclennan has a poem up at Pamenar Press online ; the full event of Benjamin Niespodziany's Surreal-Absurd Reading Marathon, featuring a ...

some above/ground press author activity: mclennan, Niespodziany, Jenks, Shirley, Williams, Logan, Kemp-Gee + Young, / @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @meghankempgee.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ;
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Virtual launch is this upcoming Sunday!

Join us for a marathon featuring over a dozen surrealists

bit.ly/surrealabsurd

My third book of photo poetry, Persona Digitalia, is published in November! @photoworks-uk.bsky.social 🍂 📷

“hyper-focused, obsessive play w/fragmentation, time shifts, multiple selves & intensity of life thru colour, aesthetic & lens of the neurodivergent mind.”

photoworks.org.uk/news/p5-phot...

some author activity: Chang-Richardson, Hausner, Niespodziany, Shirley, Barwin + Reid, Ellen Chang-Richardson is featured in the "Canadian Poets Series" via Peripety and/or Tronies ; Beatriz Hausner is interviewed over at Touch...

some above/ground press author activity: Ellen Chang-Richardson, Beatriz Hausner, Benjamin Niespodziany, Vik Shirley, Gary Barwin + Monty Reid, / @mreid.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ;
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Did you miss the Easy Tiger virtual launch on Sunday? You can rest easy now, because the full reading is up on YouTube!

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Colour photograph with L to R poets Vik Shirley, Rosie Garland, Janette Ayachi, Jane Goldman

Oh, what a night!
Had a flippin lovely time at @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh last night, launching This Is How I Fight 💜💜💜

A delight to read with @vikshirley.bsky.social Janette Ayachi & Jane Goldman!✨✨✨

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Image shows event announcement for book launch of This Is How I Fight 23 July

Image is black text on yellow background - event information for launch of poetry collection This is How I Fight

Next week Weds 23 July I’m thrilled to be visiting @lighthousebks in Edinburgh!

Sharing a poetry stage with fabulous Janette Ayachi @vikshirley.bsky.social @janegoldman.bsky.social ✨💜✨

AND it’s available online too 🌹

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@futuretensebooks.bsky.social / @zacharyschomburg.bsky.social / @markleidner.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @garybarwin.bsky.social

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”an uncanny and blackly comic fable-cycle for a collapsing world”

Infinite thanks to @stephensunderland.bsky.social for this in depth review of Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social just published over at the mighty 3am magazine.

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Beyond thrilled to have been selected for the inaugural P5 series @photoworks-uk.bsky.social in collab w/David Solo!

My third photo poetry book is coming soon & will be designed by @janeandjeremy.bsky.social!

More details to come & you can read about it here:

photoworks.org.uk/news/p5-phot...

Spotted in @goldenharebooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh yesterday on the 'Bookseller Favourites' shelf @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Time|Life published by @renardpress.com!

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”an uncanny and blackly comic fable-cycle for a collapsing world”

Infinite thanks to @stephensunderland.bsky.social for this in depth review of Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social just published over at the mighty 3am magazine.

🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea...