A NEW Review of my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"The speaker’s corporeal self has become almost an enemy, attacking the speaker like a traitor."

from Eileen Murphy's review of my poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", which appears in the new issue of Tinderbox Poetry Journal! - 

http://tinderboxpoetry.com/review-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my-black-doll-head-irises-by-juliet-cook

You can acquire your very own copy of DARK PURPLE, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

A wonderful NEW review of my poetry chapbook, "SOFT FOAM"!

Another wonderful review by Casey Kiser, of another poetry chapbook of mine, "Soft Foam"!

"Currently, my absolute favorite Juliet Cook collection. Though, I have a lot to go.
I got half-way through and had to call my drug dealer.
I put her poetry in the genre of gateway drug ;)
This is some fine-tuned chaotic brilliance. An insomniac's delight.
She is quite a master of words. Every poem in this one left me drooling.
Absolute favorites: ALL OF THEM, 'Squiggles in Wonderland'.
Maybe, once I collect all Juliet's books, I will just giveaway my tv.

'This drunk compliments my legs.
I compliment my own legs in my head
in an other's voice. All it takes
to induce another fantasy.'

-From 'Sink or Float (drunk fantasy)"

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You can acquire your own copy of "Soft Foam" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/59222402/soft-foam-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_16

You can also read it for free online here - http://www.dusie.org/Dusie%204%20pdfs/Juliet%20Cook%20Dusie%204%20chap.pdf

NEW! Paloma Reviewed at Rag Queen Periodical

"If grief is another country, Jennifer Hudgen’s poems navigate that terrain like a native. Her chapbook from the ever amazing Blood Pudding Press, is a carnivalesque romp through loss using the often sharp edges of memory, keen insight and a healthy dose of rage at what is snatched from us without warning.

These 14 prose poems, unevenly spaced, startle with their pyrotechnic wordplay, as they call up the author’s memories and reminiscences, jumping in with both feet, explicit yet honest, full of blind rage at times, yet so tender and so evocative throughout that what she grieves, grieves the reader, too."

from a new review by Michelle Reale at Rag Queen Periodical, of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens

read more HERE - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2018/01/08/Keep-Insight-a-Healthy-Dose-of-Rage-A-Review-of-Paloma-by-Jennifer-E-Hudgens

acquire your own copy of "Paloma" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1

The First New Review of the New "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover (thank you to Christina Brooks)!

A new book review written by Christina M. Brooks of the new "Fuck Cancer Poems" poetry chapbook by Michael Grover (Blood Pudding Press 2017):

"I've never cried thru a book of poetry before but I did with this one. And I still feel teary writing this review. I know the poet personally. Michael is a good friend and has been a staunch supporter of my own poetry from day one. It does make me sad that he is struggling with cancer. And I don't know how long he will be with us. But reading Fuck Cancer Poems that wasn't what brought the tears. What brought the tears was the very penetrating, real writing in it.

Michael has a very rebellious spirit... he sometimes comes off as gruff and combative with people and he has paid a heavy personal cost because of that. But underneath that exterior is a very perceptive, battle weary poetic warrior. His writing has a clarity you don't see very many places or hear from many people anymore. And I think it was that clarity, and the very raw, personal character of these poems that hit me so deeply. I felt these poems. They aren't just about his personal battle with cancer... but a keen eyed look at "cancer" in its other forms too.

Anyway, Thank you Michael Grover for writing these.. and thank you Juliet Cook for publishing them. And thank you to Craig Firsdon for the cover art.

And though they will probably make you cry I highly recommend this book."

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Thank you very much to Christina Brooks for this wonderful review.

Anyone interested in acquiring their own copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems" can get it from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress