Juliet Cook's Blog, page 121
June 29, 2015
Get TWO 2015 Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbooks for a lowered price - Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon and Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall
End of June 2015, A NEW listing has been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop, through which you can acquire a SET OF TWO, meaning both 2015 contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks for a substantially lower price if you purchase them as a set.Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon AND Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall for only 10 bucks (plus shipping).Here is the listing - https://www.etsy.com/listing/238583883/get-two-2015-chapbooks-for-a-lowered?ref=shop_home_active_1
June 23, 2015
Thank You for Swallowing (my new poem)!
"You want to make me want
what you want for yourself"
from my poem "You pull your latest force field out and shoot another load" now up at Thank You for Swallowing, here! - https://thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/you-pull-your-latest-force-field-out-and-shoot-another-load/***Last week I got pretty excited and revved up about the new "Thank You for Swallowing" AND this week I have a poem up there AND I think more of you should consider submitting there. :)SO read my poem...And/or read some of the other poems already published there....And/or consider submitting yours, if you're so drawn.
what you want for yourself"
from my poem "You pull your latest force field out and shoot another load" now up at Thank You for Swallowing, here! - https://thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/you-pull-your-latest-force-field-out-and-shoot-another-load/***Last week I got pretty excited and revved up about the new "Thank You for Swallowing" AND this week I have a poem up there AND I think more of you should consider submitting there. :)SO read my poem...And/or read some of the other poems already published there....And/or consider submitting yours, if you're so drawn.
June 17, 2015
A NEW Thirteen Myna Birds flock is alive as of June 2015 - snarling and breathing and vibrant and heavy!
Thirteen Myna Birds is now an all new entourage of unusual and uniquely powerful poetry offerings - starting with three emotionally moving poems from the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall - and followed by a malformed force field of creepy, sexy, strange, and odd treats by Jennifer Hanks, Lynsey G, and Ellie White.
"love, even as pure as hers would never be enough - nights I drip in bed - honey coming from the scrapes - my spine the fuel of stars - four heads snarling against their stomachs - I see ferns now and tear off my shoes, sometimes everything - your dogs step out of their split skins - leaving plaster dust hanging like a pulled-apart cotton ball - bread molding blue - the Venus de Milo was flesh once, female and breathing - the heads were vibrant and heavy - bones harbor the prettiest ghosts"
Here it is - http://13myna.blogspot.com/
"love, even as pure as hers would never be enough - nights I drip in bed - honey coming from the scrapes - my spine the fuel of stars - four heads snarling against their stomachs - I see ferns now and tear off my shoes, sometimes everything - your dogs step out of their split skins - leaving plaster dust hanging like a pulled-apart cotton ball - bread molding blue - the Venus de Milo was flesh once, female and breathing - the heads were vibrant and heavy - bones harbor the prettiest ghosts"
Here it is - http://13myna.blogspot.com/
June 10, 2015
An Excerpt from Pigeons and Peace Doves (Matthew J. Hall's NEW Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbook) created by Marcy Erb, appearing at Illustrated Poetry Today
Marcy Erb, the cover artist of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall., has created and featured an excerpt from this collection on Illustrated Poetry Today, HERE -http://illustratedpoetry.com/2015/06/09/city-poem-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-2070
June 9, 2015
NEW Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM (a collaborative poetry chapbook by me and Robert Cole, published earlier this year by Hyacinth Girl Press)
By the time we reach Swarm One, addiction has consumed both speaker and reader: “Lucid unrelenting pain proponent, we were somehow winged/with gigantic stingers all over our skin. Nobody can touch us anymore.” The emotions of the speaker echo what the reader is feeling. The scene is too painful to endure, and yet too alive to pull away from. We are completely consumed.
From that peak moment of unity, immediately we are plummeted into dregs of emotional despair. Swarm Two blasts us with a scathing dose of realization: “Nobody can save us . . . Ashes ashes we/used to think we were interesting. Now we are nothing/but rotten fritters that would eat until nothing remains.” With that slap to our consciousness we are faced with a mirror of entrails that are both otherworldy and our own, and we think this must be the end, this must be where reality strikes and someone is saved. But no, Copy and Pasty My Eyes shows us that there is no happy ending to be found in this tale. Clarity is not to be found. “Here, at the entrance/exist, blinding dust is everywhere.
from a NEW Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM , a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole.The chapbook was published earlier this year by Hyacinth Girl Press.The review was written by AJ Huffman and published earlier today by Sein und Werden.You can read the review in its entirety here -http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/mutant.html***You can acquire yourself a copy of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html
From that peak moment of unity, immediately we are plummeted into dregs of emotional despair. Swarm Two blasts us with a scathing dose of realization: “Nobody can save us . . . Ashes ashes we/used to think we were interesting. Now we are nothing/but rotten fritters that would eat until nothing remains.” With that slap to our consciousness we are faced with a mirror of entrails that are both otherworldy and our own, and we think this must be the end, this must be where reality strikes and someone is saved. But no, Copy and Pasty My Eyes shows us that there is no happy ending to be found in this tale. Clarity is not to be found. “Here, at the entrance/exist, blinding dust is everywhere.
from a NEW Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM , a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole.The chapbook was published earlier this year by Hyacinth Girl Press.The review was written by AJ Huffman and published earlier today by Sein und Werden.You can read the review in its entirety here -http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/mutant.html***You can acquire yourself a copy of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html
June 5, 2015
NEW from Blood Pudding Press! - Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall - the second Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2015!
June 2015 offers you the new "Pigeons and Peace Doves", the second Blood Pudding Press Contest Winning poetry chapbook of the year - and the first poetry chapbook by Matthew J. Hall.
It includes thirteen gorgeously written, emotionally rendering poems by Matthew J. Hall that are "representative of a...self-destructive struggle, an internal struggle".
Matthew J. Hall is an artist and writer living in Bristol, England. He is an avid reader, writer and reviewer of poetry and fiction and has been featured in some fine literary publications and websites including The Small Press Book Review, Literary Orphans, Rusty Truck and Hobo Camp Review. To read more from Matthew, visit his blog (www.screamingwithbrevity.com) where he frequently publishes reviews and other poetry and fiction related things.
Here are a few lines from one of the Pigeons poems, "This City is Sad and Angry", followed by a photo of the new chapbook.
You can procure a copy of these broken, lovely Pigeons for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_2
"the high risers are leaning inand the tarmac pullsand sadness wells and spillsin and from the crippled pigeon’s eyes
I think he wants to crybut doesn’t know howI'd like to make a lollipop-stick splint for his contorted leg"
It includes thirteen gorgeously written, emotionally rendering poems by Matthew J. Hall that are "representative of a...self-destructive struggle, an internal struggle".
Matthew J. Hall is an artist and writer living in Bristol, England. He is an avid reader, writer and reviewer of poetry and fiction and has been featured in some fine literary publications and websites including The Small Press Book Review, Literary Orphans, Rusty Truck and Hobo Camp Review. To read more from Matthew, visit his blog (www.screamingwithbrevity.com) where he frequently publishes reviews and other poetry and fiction related things.
Here are a few lines from one of the Pigeons poems, "This City is Sad and Angry", followed by a photo of the new chapbook.
You can procure a copy of these broken, lovely Pigeons for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_2
"the high risers are leaning inand the tarmac pullsand sadness wells and spillsin and from the crippled pigeon’s eyes
I think he wants to crybut doesn’t know howI'd like to make a lollipop-stick splint for his contorted leg"
June 3, 2015
A NEW Interview with Lauren Gordon about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" (at THE VOLTA BLOG)
"I love chapbooks. I love reading in small bites. I love the affordability and the art and love put into them. No one is starting a chapbook press because they want to make money. It’s purely for the love of the art...and I was lucky that it won the contest with Blood Pudding Press. The editor, Juliet Cook, makes really lovely handmade chapbooks and I’m so happy with the finished product. It seems like something that is true to the art. I also created the artwork for the cover. It’s a combination of images from a children’s nursery rhyme book from the nineteenth century. Hidden in the scroll-work are the names of my husband and daughter, and the blackbird is homage to Blood Pudding Press’s journal, Thirteen Myna Birds."from part of a new interview of Lauren Gordon, about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" - conducted by Lizi Gilad at THE VOLTA BLOGread more of the interview here - https://thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/interview-fiddle-is-flood-lauren-gordon/buy the chapbook here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/227601065/new-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon?ref=shop_home_active_20
May 28, 2015
My Late Night Dance Moves
Read my little "Late Night Dance Moves", a strangely floating taste test from the FLAPPERHOUSE Spring 2015 issue HERE! -
http://flapperhouse.com/2015/05/28/late-night-dance-moves-poetry-by-juliet-cook/
http://flapperhouse.com/2015/05/28/late-night-dance-moves-poetry-by-juliet-cook/
May 26, 2015
Adam Tedesco's ConverseχInverse Featuring Juliet Cook
"We all have mental fluctuations and quirksOther than thatThings that are real areHuman body partsGhostly body parts floating by the ceiling fan"
from Adam Tedesco's "ConverseχInverse Featuring Juliet Cook", in which he interviewed me via verse for Drunk in a Midnight Choir
Partake of more here - http://drunkinamidnightchoir.com/2015/05/25/converse%CFinverse-featuring-juliet-cook/ smile emoticon
from Adam Tedesco's "ConverseχInverse Featuring Juliet Cook", in which he interviewed me via verse for Drunk in a Midnight Choir
Partake of more here - http://drunkinamidnightchoir.com/2015/05/25/converse%CFinverse-featuring-juliet-cook/ smile emoticon
May 19, 2015
NEW H_NGM_N #17 with my Gurgling Screams inside it!
Very excited and delighted to have a poem inside the new H_NGM_N #17, surrounded by lots of other exciting poetry! My poem, "Gurgling Screams" in this new H_NGM_N will also appear next month, in the book Oct Tongue 2, published by Crisis Chronicles Press and featuring 8 different poets and their poems from every day of October!And one of Nicole Rollender's poems, "The preparation of the body" in this new H_NGM_N, will also appear in her chapbook, "Bone of My Bone", to be published later this year by Blood Pudding Press!http://www.h-ngm-n.com/hm-17/
