Vik Shirley’s pamphlet Corpses (Sublunary Editions) was published in 2020, her collection The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN Press) and her photo-poetry book Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid (Hesterglock Press) in 2021. Her book, Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse, was subsequently published by Beir Bua Press. Vik’s work has also appeared in magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, Perverse, Shearsman, Tentacular and 3am Magazine, and anthologies including It All Radiate’s Outwards (Verve), Writing Utopia (Hesterglock), Virtual Oasis (Trickhouse). She is currently studying for a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry at the University of Birmingham. Vik is Associate Editor of Sublunary Editions, Editor of Surreal-Absurd at Mercurius magazine and tweets for Shearsman Books. Follow her @VikShirley.
Corpses, is available from Sublunary Editions HERE.
The Continued Closure of the Blue Door, is available to buy HERE
Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid is available to order HERE
Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse, is available to buy HERE
Read a selection of her work from Corpses and The Continued Closure of the Blue Door HERE.
Read two poems published by ANTHROPECENE HERE
Read her interview from May 2020, with Matt Haigh HERE
Read her small fictions published recently by The Fortnightly Review HERE
Read Ghosts published by The Babel Tower Notice Board HERE
You can read two poems published in Queen Mob’s Teahouse HERE.
Read her poem I Never Intended to Get into Breeding published by Interpreters House HERE.
Her visual work published by 3am Magazine is available HERE.
And two poems published on Burning House Press can be read HERE
