Juliet Cook's Blog, page 29

From his new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "POISON MOONLIGHT", Jason O'Toole reads the poem "Venus of Glen Cove"

 Listen to Jason O'Toole read his poem, "Venus of Glen Cove", here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul-m2nze3vY

Read this poem for yourself (along with lots of others) within the May flock of Thirteen Myna Birds here - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

 This poem also appears in O' Toole's NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "POISON MOONLIGHT", which you can find out more about and/or acquire your own copy within the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

From his new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "POISON MOONLIGHT", Jason O'Toole reads the poem "Song of a Dying Star"

 Listen to Jason O'Toole read his poem, "Song of a Dying Star" HERE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGtv1EngL-0

This poem appears in O' Toole's NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "POISON MOONLIGHT", which you can find out more about and/or acquire your own copy within the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Another poetry reading from POISON MOONLIGHT by Jason O'Toole

Listen to/watch Jason O'Toole read one of his poems, "Pomegranate", from within his new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, POISON MOONLIGHT! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAjz40np2xg

Find out more about POISON MOONLIGHT and acquire your own copy, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

A poetry reading from POISON MOONLIGHT by Jason O'Toole

Listen to Jason O'Toole read one of his poems, "Zodiac", from within his new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, POISON MOONLIGHT! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElZAI3ShDh0

Find out more about POISON MOONLIGHT and acquire your own copy, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

The NEW May Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived (starting with three teaser piece poems from the new Blood Pudding Press chapbook)!

The NEW May flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here!

It begins with three teaser piece poems from the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "POISON MOONLIGHT" by Jason O'Toole. It is filled with new poetry by John Sweet, E. Martin Pedersen, Kristin Garth, Don Thompson, R. Bremner, Tom Montag, and Yuan Changming.

"The peculiar smell of the inevitable stops time - it gets in your blood like poison does, and then you die - No longer one with the natural world - you trade strange monsters - it’s your voice of truth born of your myth of truth - glowering between Mercury and an international space station - Poppies that used to be enlightened have a jaundiced and flaccid look - Neuro-witchcraft: the hippocampus boiling a cauldron of bad memories - where images of people I’ve long forgotten dance furiously in vain hope that I’ll remember - demons start to revolt With ghosts from under the ground - been wanting to burn down this goddamn town since the day we arrived - homemade bread of disabling dread - laying eggs above alligators - In a tsunami filled with viruses & monsters - with their lopsided pentagram - Probability is half of it - We each believe our selves to be The hero on our own stage - and when i show you what i’ve written, you tell me to leave..."

Read it all HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com

NEW! POISON MOONLIGHT by Jason O'Toole - a new 2021 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook!

"The poets no longer
have a monopoly on sadness.
You have enough
without some wretched strangerdumping any of his on you."

The first new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2021 - POISON MOONLIGHT by Jason O'Toole, is now  newly available.

23 poems filled with darkness, black holes, moons, dying stars, ghosts and more.

Poetry by Jason O'Toole.

Front cover and back cover art created by James Quigley aka Gunsho.

Formatted, printed, hand-designed and bound with dark or glittery yarn or ribbon by Blood Pudding Press. 

Available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1022241659/new-poison-moonlight-by-jason-otoole?ref=shop_home_feat_3


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New! Another one of my FLESH WORLD poems in Sein und Werden

"You keep your mask on
as you drip with red ink inside.
Dizzy and submerged in another blood bath."

the beginning of my "Flesh World" poem, which I am excited to have appearing within the Crime Scene of the new Spring 2021 Locus Delicti issue of Sein und Werden

read more HERE - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring21/page8.html

New! Another one of my FLESH WORLD poems in OyeDrum

"In your dreams, cornfields with tiny ears
won’t listen to your screams."

from one of my FLESH WORLD poems, appearing today within OyeDrum Magazine

read more here - https://oyedrum.com/flesh-world-by-juliet-cook-poetry/

New! Two of my poems appear in the new issue of Misfit Magazine! - "Some people want to remove your eyes" and one of my FLESH WORLD poems...

I feel pretty strongly about these two poems of mine that appear in the new Issue No. 32, Spring 2021 of Misfit Magazine!

Below is a link to my two poems - "Some people want to remove your eyes" and one of my FLESH WORLD poems (from a small series).

I hope a few people read them. 💜 I've been feeling kind of invisible lately (and having a hard time trusting other people). 

However, even if hardly anyone reads them, I am still proud of them for my own reasons.

http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-32/cook.html

A NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones"!

Thank you to Latif Askia Ba for this wonderful review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones" by john comptom

"john compton's most recent chapbook, “i saw god cooking children / paint their bones,” produced and published beautifully by Blood Pudding Press, is a testament to love—not the trite and sappy kind, but the kind “rooted in piss and shit” as the Zen saying goes.

Captured in Compton’s (perpetually) turning phrases, peppered by his playful and refreshingly rare diction—catastrophe flowers across these pages, and though they are few, they manage to create an unignorable echo, which rattles furiously in the mind by the end of the collection.

It’s not really my place to read into things, but I’m going to anyway. It seems that the source of this powerful resonance is Compton’s mother, a reoccurring character throughout the book, who (being “plagued / by a psychotic / god”) had a contentious relationship with the poet, and instead of letting this relationship live in a slew of depressing word salads, Compton sets up a sort of dialectic with the pain of being his mother’s “faggot son.”

The poet, rejecting this identity, re-educates us (and corrects his mother) in his sexual vignettes like “fellation” or “the memory of seeing my first uncut penis.”

Even in a poem named “the israeli war,” where you expect an account of pure misery, Compton refuses this from us. Instead, his description is tender: “an explosion of wings.” And so, in this very way, he takes the words and deeds of his mother and bends them around his lines into gentle, ornate lamentations.

Reading “i saw god painting children…” felt like I was eavesdropping on an intimate conversation between a mother and her son, and even if their relationship was marked by suffering, I could still hear the stubborn cadence of love…

or maybe it was just me breathing too loudly. Either way, you can buy this chapbook and other masterly constructed chapbooks at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress