My newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is now available in the Blood Pudding Press shop too!

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (my newest poetry chapbook, published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press in December 2023) has now been added to my Blood Pudding Press shop too, in case anyone would like to purchase one in conjunction with another chapbook there... 

Here is a link to that listing - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

Of course it can also still be purchased directly from Ethel Zine & Micro Press too, here - https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

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"Damned ecosystem inside
a malformed crayfish crawling out of
this doll's mouth.

The doll's insecticidal eyes.
The doll's hysterical orifices.
The doll's tiny doom portal opening."

in one of the "FLESH WORLD" poems inside this collection

I have received my own copies of my new chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"! Yay!

I am very excited that I have now received my copies of my newest poetry chapbook, Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, December 2023)!

Thank you very much to Ethel Zine & Micro Press!

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Find out more and consider acquiring a copy for yourself or a friend via Ethel, HERE (and/or you can also check out my last two blog posts to find out a bit more...)...:

https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

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"Damned ecosystem inside
a malformed crayfish crawling out of
this doll's mouth.

The doll's insecticidal eyes.
The doll's hysterical orifices.
The doll's tiny doom portal opening."

in one of the FLESH WORLD poems, within my new chapbook

Happy (or hideous) December! Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is looking for new homes!

Happy December 2023! I am extremely excited, delighted, and thrilled to have my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" officially available from the wonderful independent press, Ethel Zine & Micro Press!

"Dissociative identity disorder hides in the corner

of your bedroom, hoping to break itself out of your face

and rip the flesh off

someone who doesn't believe

your power. Listen. All you wanted

 

was enough alcoholic ingredients

for an unending supply of Bloody Marys,

while you watched the female lion bite deep

into a larger creature's neck."

in my poem, "I'll Eat You" 

 

28 poems are waiting to creepily crawl their way into your brain or be given as a gift to a friend.

Find out more and/or acquire my latest strangely crafted poetic mess HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

Happy first day of December! "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" (my new poetry chapbook) is now available!

"In this diorama, a mental conflagration
is connected with the speed of the ceiling fan.
It turns itself off and on, grows into an over rotating form of abuse.

A repetitive malformation in which
her arms are forced behind her back in bed again.
Her sheets are ripped off to strangle her."

(in the poem "Invaded Cores")

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Happy first day of December 2023! I am extremely excited, delighted, and thrilled to have my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" officially available from the wonderful independent press, Ethel Zine & Micro Press, as of today!

Just in time for the holidays and the New Year, at least for those of you who have peculiarly quirky gift lists involving strange, dark, emotionally twisted poetry.

The 28 poems in this collection are filled with internal and external violence and abuse, chaotic horror and entrapment, humans trapped behind walls or in beds, dolls thrown down the stairs and hiding in partially contained places, dolls pretending to be humans, humans pretending to be dolls, humans fused together with evil.

Some of the inspiration for some of the poems partly derived from Twin Peaks. 15 poems in the collection have the title "FLESH WORLD", which comes from the name of a magazine in Twin Peaks. But there are other titles too and other inspirations and insinuations too, including my own experiences, thoughts, and feelings doused into dark red poetry.

Dive into my latest strangely crafted poetic mess HERE:

https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards cover art

Ronette Pulaski/Phoebe Augustine

HAPPY NOVEMBER! Your Mouth is Moving Backwards (my new poetry chapbook) is COMING SOON!

I am very excited about my new creepy poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards", coming very soon from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!

Stay tuned...

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FLESH WORLD

The only place to hide is a trap
door loaded with rotting baby toes
and constrained screams
shoved inside a dollhouse
sized train that can't move.

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Coming soon! Juliet Cook’s YOUR MOUTH IS MOVING BACKWARDS

Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in a small multitude of print and online publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" (The Poet's Haven, 2019), "The Rabbits with Red Eyes" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2020), "Histrionics Inside my Interior City" (part of Ghost City Press's Summer Micro-Chapbook Series, 2020), "red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023), and "Contorted Doom Conveyor" (Gutter Snob Books, July 2023).

Cook's first full-length poetry book, “Horrific Confection", was published by BlazeVOX. Her most recent full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018. She is currently in the long process of compiling and organizing her third full-length poetry manuscript.

Cook's own tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes creates other art.

Cook also writes collaborative poetry and also creates abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.

You can find out more at Cook's website at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.

Poetry poetry poetry! A NEW chapbook, a three year old chapbook, and a forthcoming chapbook!

Still very excited that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" was accepted for publication by Ethel a year ago and is tentatively forthcoming this October 2023!

ALSO, still very excited about my chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" that was published by Ethel in 2020 and is still available HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes

AND ALSO still very excited about my NEW chapbook "red flames burning out" that was published by Grey Book Press less than a week ago and is available HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, April 2023)

The Rabbits With Red Eyes (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, March 2020)

An Extra Special Poetry Month Acceptance of a new chapbook manuscript, Your Mouth is Moving Backwards!

I am very excited to announce that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" has been accepted for publication by the uniquely wonderful Ethel Zine & Micro-Press! 

This manuscript has been floating around and looking for a home for a little over a year (I think I started submitting different versions of the manuscript in February 2011 and from then to now, it's received about 10 rejections) and now its home has been found and its tentative publication date is October 2023.

That may sound like a while away, but time speed races fast and plus October is my favorite month. Just don't ask me how old I'll be in October 2023, because in my mind, that's one down side to the speed racing of time.

But one upside is that this new chapbook of mine will be newly brought to life by a fabulous independent press!

The 20+ poems in this chapbook collection are filled with internal and external violence and abuse, chaotic horror and entrapment, humans trapped behind walls or in beds, dolls thrown down the stairs and hiding in partially contained places, dolls pretending to be humans, humans pretending to be dolls, real humans fused together with evil. A lot of the inspiration for many of the poems at least partly derives from Twin Peaks. 15 poems in the collection have the title "FLESH WORLD", which comes from the name of a magazine in Twin Peaks. But there are other titles too and other inspirations and insinuations too.

I'm very happy that this manuscript found a fabulous home and also that it found its home during poetry month! 

And also too, another wonderful side note is that this will be the second poetry chapbook manuscript of mine that Ethel Zine & Micro-Press has accepted and published! They published my chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" in March 2020, which can still be purchased in their shop at a price cut of only $4 (and which might soon be available as a free online PDF file too)! https://www.ethelzine.com/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes

They also have tons of other fabulous poetry chapbooks available, so I recommend checking them out and buying a handful of chapbooks! https://www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-minibooks

Eileen Murphy Recommends "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" by Juliet Cook

"EILEEN RECOMMENDS: I just got this gorgeous handmade chapbook in the mail, The Rabbits With Red Eyes by poet/artist/publisher Juliet Cook. These books are not expensive (right now), but make good collectors items and gifts, not to mention gifts to yourself. I highly recommend!"

Recommendation and photo by Eileen Murphy

The Rabbits With Red Eyes can be purchased directly from the poet, through her Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_2

And directly from the creatively wonderful small press that published it, Ethel Zine & Micro Press, HERE! - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook 

A few more lines inside The Rabbits With Red Eyes...

"All he wants to do is destroy
in order to feel like his body is stronger.
He can't control his own body, so he'll control others.
He wants to be the boss of broken body parts."

in my poem "Pepper", within my newest poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes", available from Ethel Zine & Micro Press, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook

Also available within my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_2

A NEW Review of my new poetry chapbook - The Rabbits With Red Eyes!

"A beautifully crafted and meticulously stitched little book that speaks volumes on its bright white pages. Poetry vociferous in honesty and violent in imagery leaves typed tracks across a heart of blemishes while shrinking into its own stew of consciousness. Here is emoting to the fourth degree, crispy and well singed, tempestuously supple on the inside."

A delightful new review of my new poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press). Thank you very much to Janie C.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3250422719?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

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You can acquire your own copy of The Rabbits With Red Eyes directly from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook

You can also acquire a copy directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_2

Step Inside My New Poetry Chapbook - The Rabbits With Red Eyes

"It was locked inside
a cage, high above the ground
until its hair grew long enough
to reach close to the bottom.

Can you imagine how it feels
to extend your own hair
to the point of hitting the bottom
of an unknown land

and then watch someone else climb up,
drag you down to their level
and expect you to treat them
like they've given you the ultimate reward
by informing you that you belong to them?"

inside my poem "Flowers are Worth More than Females"

within my new poetry chapbook, The Rabbits With Red Eyes, published by the wonderful Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in March 2020 and available HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook

(Or if you'd like to purchase one directly from me, just ask me)

My NEW poetry chapbook, "THE RABBITS WITH RED EYES" is now available via Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!

Delighted to announce that my new poetry chapbook, "THE RABBITS WITH RED EYES" is now available via Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!

You can find out more about it and acquire your very own copy HERE: https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook

Ethel Volume 4 is now online as well as in print!

Did you know that the current issue of Ethel is now up on the website, in addition to being available as a handmade zine?

https://www.ethelzine.com/current-issue