Blunt Knife Co.

Hey pals, just a heads-up that the BKco. shop will be CLOSED next week, but otherwise it's biz-ness as usual until our final day here at Thistle Street on Saturday 15 July!
See y'all soon 😘

ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣
After two wonderful years, we’re moving out of our Thistle Street location next month.
We'll be keeping an eye out for a new space, but in the meantime, we’ll still be doing events at various venues, and we have a bunch of exciting new projects in the works.
This is not a goodbye from us, just a goodbye to Thistle Street. The last day the shop will be open will be Saturday 15 July, but we’ll be sharing details of discounts and closing fun-times soon! (If you’re one of our consignment artists, we’ve sent you an email.)
We hope to see you in the next wee while, and we want to thank all those who have frequented the shop, attended our events, and supported us in any way. The best thing about starting BKco. has been the incredible community that has embraced what we do. Thank you, be kind, stay cool – see you soon!
Em & MB ❤️‍🔥
(A few pics of various shenanigans)

June's book club pick is the brilliant new short story collection THIS IS MY BODY, GIVEN FOR YOU by
We're really excited to highlight Heather's extraordinary writing, as well as – a local indie publisher dedicated to publishing underrepresented voices in the most deliciously gory and macabre way!
Click the link in bio for more info, and heads up: there's a content warning on this one.
The book is available in-store and via our online shop 🙌

Heads up! The BKco. shop will be closed on Wednesday 24 May.
See y'all from Thursday as usual ✨️

A fab night of both fury and joy, with a brilliant bunch of poets for Punk Poetry yesterday!
Thanks to the wonderful audience and to Abi at Sett, and of course to the talented bunch of punks who entertained and inspired us. We are forever grateful that artists are willing to share such personal work 🖤
(Soz for the fuzzy pics but you get the idea!)

Hey hey it's May and we have our book club pick for this month!
Sophie K Rosa's brilliant RADICAL INTIMACY 🎉
From the publisher, Pluto Press:
Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. We must be productive and heteros*xual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do not want to achieve all, or any of these life goals. Instead we are left feeling atomised, exhausted and disempowered. RADICAL INTIMACY shows that it doesn't need to be this way. A punchy and impassioned account of inspiring ideas about alternative ways to live.
We can't WAIT to talk about this book! Link in bio for more details and to register.

Have you ever thought to yourself, ‘What I really need is more Grand Designs content in my life’? Yep. Us too 😉handle is a Scottish cartoonist, poet and co-founder of , and we’re bloody chuffed to have a few of their zines in store!
From hopeful stories of q***rness, to gothic fantasy and not-so-grand design, Axe’s use of spot-colour and riso print technique make any and all of these gems a must-have for your zine collection!

New in-store, this gorgeous zine by Edi local .s_h0use 'Ode to a Nightingale: an illustrated homage to John Keats' ✨️
16 pages of gorgeous three-colour riso AND a wee sticker pack! So much loveliness – come get yours 😉

April book club pick is THE DEBUTANTE AND OTHER STORIES – the first collected edition of Leonora Carrington's short stories.
Brought to you by the legends at indie feminist publisher .press , we can't wait to chat about the wild world of Carrington's surreal stories!
Thursday 27 April. Books in-store and online. You'll find all the deets and a link to register at our link in bio 💜

This gorgeous comic book anthology is from Edi independent publisher and features six talented artists in over 150 pages of lush graphic storytelling.
TILT: SIX TALES is edited by and , and that stunner cover art is by
With stories from and ✨️
Give Quindrie Press and all these killer comic artists a follow, and come on down to BKco. and get your comics goodness stat!

📢 POET CALLOUT!
Shoutout to all the rebels and riot grrrls – we want to hear your poetry!
For us, punk evokes the very smash-the-system ethos that we love here at BKco. You don't need piercings and a ripped tshirt – this is about pushing back, being loud, questioning the way things are and demanding change. Homophobia? Racism? Ableism? Transphobia? Misogyny? The Patriarchyyyyyy ... F**K THAT NOISE – let's make some noise of our own!
If you're based in Edinburgh and would like to read a few poems at our punk-themed poetry night on Friday 21 April, fill in the form at the link in bio and tell us a bit about yourself!
Open to all, but priority will be given to people from marginalised groups in keeping with our aim to amplify little-heard voices. We encourage people who've not performed their work before to give it a go – the BKco. audience is supportive and welcoming so it's a perfect chance to share your writing in a friendly space :)
Subs close Tuesday 4 April

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 EXCITEMENT CENTRAL AT BKco. HQ TODAY! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
We teamed up with fab local artist to make a super limited BKco. tee (black) and tote (yellow)!!
Audrey's stunning artwork is 😗👌 perfection. Actual response when these babies arrived: HOLY SH*TBALLS!! GIMME GIMME GIMME!!
Heads up, we've not got heaps and once they're gone, they're gone, so get your skates on and come get your cool-factor-off-the-charts gear 😎
(Thanks to Em for being our gooooorgeous and professsssional model in pics 3 + 4 😂)

✨️ Verrrrry happy to share the bold, brilliant work of .illustrates with y'all here at BKco.! ✨️
Come visit and get these fierce, fun prints in your eyeballs 👁👁

We have some new zines from and they're soooooooo brilliant!
Everyone's favourite* birdo, the seagull, finally gets its moment to shine in this fantastic pop-up zine. (Also, Sketching at the Cafe has a secret print inside when you unfold!)
In-store now ✨️
*or least favourite 😎

An amazing time was had last night here at BKco. celebrating the wonderful and some of their recent featured artists.
With a beautiful spoken word performance from and a hectic disco playlist – things got a bit steamy (see last pic 😎)
The exhibition is open today (Friday), tomorrow (Saturday) and Wednesday and Thursday next week.
11am till 6pm, come visit and check it out!

ISSUE 2 OF GENDERSH*T ZINE IN THE HOUUUUSE! ❤️‍🔥
Continuing the theme of q***r spaces, this issue of *t ventures into CYBERSPACE 💻
AND we have some more copies of Issue 1: Toilet Talk, which sold out quicksticks, so come get the goods, pals 😉

We’re really excited to be teaming up with local indie book publisher, to celebrate two local authors and their work!
Join us for a discussion and reading with debut fiction author Charlie Roy (The Broken Pane) and poet Lesley Storm (It’s About Time).
This is a free event but you must register – head to the link in bio for info and registration 🔗


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NEW IN-STORE!! We couldn't be more chuffed to share a collection of prints, zines, comics, exhibition pamphlets, and mini-zines from the incomparable , including the iconic Red Hanky Panky comic!
As a q***r woman and feminist, Rachael’s work is an extremely relevant and powerful addition to current conversations around activism, q***r theory, women and s*x.
Come have a look at alllllllll the awesomenesssss! 👁👁

Announcing GROUNDED, a retrospective art exhibition from
Opening night: Thursday 16th, 6:30pm
Exhibition: 17, 18, 22 & 23 March
Those fantastic Hens are at it again. Join us for another retrospective art exhibition featuring the work of featured artists Mikele Perez-Jamieson, Angharad Franziska, Natalia Baczynski and Frankie Keating-Gardner, as well as work from Teddy Woods, Megan Davies, Max Mignatti and Ella Dee Martin.
Registration for opening night shenanigans at the link in bio 🔗
Promo artwork by .art_ 💕

NEW IN-STORE! 🎼
Cocoon] features 23 essays about the albums that keep us going, with writers from NME, The Guardian, i-D, gal-dem, Rolling Stone, The Face, Crack, Vogue, Pitchfork and more – and beautifully illustrated throughout by Katy Smail.
Made locally in Edinburgh, Cocoon] is a music-lover’s dream, as well as a beacon of hope as we emerge from the shared experience/trauma of the pandemic.

March book club pick is THE NERVES AND THEIR ENDINGS by
One of those books that makes you think about your own body and the space in which it exists in a completely different way, and that you'll *keep* thinking about long after you've put it down.
In-store and online. Link in bio to info and registration. We can't wait to chat about it at next month's book club!

BELIEVE THE HYPE.
's new work of memoir, THINGS I HAVE LOVED, has been making a splash on the indie scene since it's release earlier this week, and it is absolutely deserved.
Reading Sophia's writing is like being told a delicious secret. It is at once exhilaratingly new and comfortingly familiar. A true literary gem.
Get your copy of THINGS I HAVE LOVED (with two free companion mini-prints) and the new edition of Sophia's 2020 essay collection, THINGS I HAVE NOTICED, in store now!

In the overstimulated afterglow of eight fantastic poets sharing their work and thrilling a packed audience last night, MB forgot to take a group pic of them all 🤦
So here is a lil' gallery of the performers doing their thing. Give them all a follow – each and every one is a writer to watch!
And thank you to the gorgeous audience whose whoops and cheers filled our hearts with LOVE – which was aptly the theme of the night 💕
Thanks so much to:
scott
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We know a lot of people missed out on tix, but rest assured, we'll be doing more reading events 💯

Looking for some new writing? You can't go past the brilliant ✨️
Issue No.27 is, as usual, a primo collection of exciting writing and ideas.
In store now!

⚠️ UPDATED OPENING HOURS ⚠️
Our wee Thistle Street shop will be open Wednesdays to Saturdays, 11am-6pm from next week.
(Our online shop is open all day every day – link in bio.)

If you're subbed to our e-newsletter you would've seen that we have a whole lotta q***r stuff we're highlighting for
Lots of fab mags, books, zines, stickers, pins, etc. to celebrate the rich and thriving LGBTQ+ history AND present AND futurrrrrrrre 🌈🎉
Shop in-store and online 🔗

We'll be closed on Tuesday 7 February, and back to regular hours from Wednesday 💕

New release zine D**E LOVE: A POETRY ANTHOLOGY is in the hooooouuuusse 🎉
Edited and designed by and featuring new work from exciting writers, this baby is a must-have in your lit zine collection 😍

Sometimes you need a little nudge to spur creativity, and we're here to help!
Join us for some prompted drawing at our new monthly event. Each session we’ll provide two different prompts (objects/still-life, images, pieces of writing, etc.) to inspire you to DRAW!
The session won’t be formally guided, and we encourage people who might be intimidated by formal art workshops to join us and have a go!
NEXT ON: SAT 18 FEB, 2-4pm
Info and registration at link in bio 🔗

Back for 2023 is the excellent with Writing for Wellness!
NEXT ON: THURSDAY 9 FEB, 6:30pm
Check the link in bio for deets and to register. This is always a popular one so get in quick! ✍️