(Dispatch) Inside Voices

Inside Voices, Anoraq and SPAM Press have teamed up to bring you a collaborative performance themed around sleep texting. Parasomniacs unite! Poets Kirsty Dunlop, Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, Vik Shirley and Maria Sledmere will read an ambient sequence of unconscious missives straight from the cloud, with sonic accompaniment. Free entry.

23rd April at 8pm

Venue: King Tuts, Glasgow

Unticketed -just show up.

Access info: https://www.kingtuts.co.uk/info-item/access-info

Performer bios: 

Kirsty Dunlop is a multimedia writer, editor, researcher and musician. She is finishing a DFA in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow exploring the possibilities of hybrid New Media writing and expanding the idea of the glitch, through a collection of electronic essays. She is Editor in Chief of SPAM Press. Her debut novella is forthcoming later this year.

Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir is a poet writing in Icelandic and English, working across creative writing, visual arts, and translation. Her work has appeared in magazines, publications, performances and group exhibitions in Iceland, Germany and the UK. She has published the pamphlets Hversdagar with Pastel (2018), All in Animal Time with SPAM Press (2023) and most recently the bookwork ÚR HVALNUM / WHALE OF A TIME (2024). She is a member of the poetry collective MÚKK.

Vik Shirley is a poet, writer & editor from Bristol now living in Edinburgh. Her publications include Some Deer (Broken Sleep), Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid (Hesterglock), Strangers Wave (zimZalla) & many more. Her work has appeared in Poetry London, PN Review, The Rialto, Magma & Gutter.  Vik co-edits Firmament online and Surreal-Absurd at Mercurius. She has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry from the University of Birmingham.

Maria Sledmere’s work moves between poetry, criticism and visual forms. Recent books include Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) (Tenement Press, 2024) and Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024) alongside collaborations including Languishing, cute - with Ian Macartney (Tapsalteerie, 2025) and Cocoa and Nothing - with Colin Herd (SPAM Press, 2023). Her debut collection, The Luna Erratum, was shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2022. She is managing editor of SPAM Press and a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde.