My poetry chapbook manuscript, "red flames burning out" has been accepted by Grey Book Press!

I am delighted to announce that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "red flames burning out" was selected as one of three chapbooks to be published by Grey Book Press this year!

And congratulations to the other two writers whose chapbooks were also selected, Jessica Purdy and Karen Kilcup!

"First up, this Spring, will be GBP veteran and horror-poetry-queen Juliet Cook, followed by Jessica Purdy and Karen Kilcup. We’ll have more details on release dates next month."

You can read more from Grey Book Press editor Scott Sweeney on the Grey Book Press site here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/01/21/january-2023-update-selections-edition/

(I'm a Grey Book Press veteran because they published my poetry chapbook "Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop" 10 years ago, which does not feel like 10 years ago, but was. I'm very excited to have another chapbook being published by them this year!)

Me ten years ago, January 2013, holding a copy of my Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop chapbook, published by Grey Book Press

(NEW) Poet Hound Reviews RENEGADE//HEART

"Lisa M. Cole’s Renegade//Heart is published by Blood Pudding Press in 2013 and is a riveting collection of poems about love and life that drill to the bone creating fissures, provoking blood loss, changing the meaning of good and bad luck."

From a new Poet Hound review offering samples of Lisa M. Cole's RENEGADE//HEART (published this January 2013 by my Blood Pudding Press)

You can read it all here - http://poethound.blogspot.com/2013/03/lisa-m-coles-renegadeheart.html

Thank you very much to Poet Hound.

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(In case you missed it and might be interested, Poet Hound also reviewed my own 2013 poetry chapbook, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP (published by Grey Book Press) last month.

You can partake of that review here - http://poethound.blogspot.com/2013/02/juliet-cooks-poisonous-beautyskull.html

POET HOUND writes about my POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP

"I planted my oranges with teeth.
I offered my crush a piece of spiked fruit.
Next thing I knew, he was missing an arm.

Could this be transcendence in a new-fangled way,
or were we just consuming each other?"

from my poem Venus Tree, which appears within my 2013 poetry chapbook, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP, published by/available from Grey Book Press, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/index.php/site/ind/poisonous_candy/

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Today you can read a new blog post/review of this chapbook upon Poet Hound, here - http://poethound.blogspot.com/2013/02/juliet-cooks-poisonous-beautyskull.html

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A small snippet from that post -

"I can picture a woman trying to speak and what comes out is colored glitter, and her body gestures strange".  


Read the rest by clicking the link above. 

My POISONOUS chapbook created into a mini-book by Sit With Moi!

My POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP poetry chapbook, recently published by Grey Book Press, has now been designed into an awesomely artsy mini-book, published by Grey Book Press-ish (created by Eileen Tabios/Sit With Moi!)

Here is part of her post  - 

You can also go to Blood Pudding's Etsy shop to see images of how she uses ribbon bindings.  Consequently, I decided that Juliet's mini-book also should have a similar binding.  Using the white fuzzy ribbon that came wrapped around the two chaps, I thus created the final front cover:

How neat to compare the real-size publication with its SitWithMoi mini-book version and see non-replication and yet authenticity. That is, when I look for images of miniature books, said books are often tiny copies of the real-life books.  Here, the cover of the mini book looks nothing like the real chap, and yet bears its own conceptual rationale for its design (of course, I'm not a biased critic here):

I should note that, in contrast to Grey Book Press being the publisher of POISONOUS ..., the publisher I named for the mini-book is "Grey Book Press-ish" (I live to amuse moiself....)

And you can check out the rest of her awesome creative offering here:

http://sitwithmoi.blogspot.com/2013/02/poisonous-beautyskull-lollipop-by.html

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Then if so inclined , you can get yourself a copy of the standard chapbook sized POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP in one of the locations linked below -

Blood Pudding Press - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?view_type=list

Grey Book Press - http://greybookpress.com/

Happy Poetic February!

In case you missed these oodles of strange poetry goodies last month:

New Thirteen Myna Birds online lit mag update –http://13myna.blogspot.com/

New Blood Pudding Press chapbook – RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole –https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192385/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013

New Strange Girl Press online lit mag -http://strangegirlp.blogspot.com/

AND several of my poems within the Strange Girl Press also appear within my new poetry chapbook from Grey Book Press, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP, available here –http://greybookpress.com/

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Coming later THIS month will be another new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook:

Poking through The Fabric of the Light that Formed Us:
Songs and  Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom

My New POISONOUS BEAUTYKSKULL LOLLIPOP is now available!

“…A screaming siren will lose

her voice then turn her own head into a grotesque gorgon.”   

from the poem Sucker Punch, within POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP

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It is my new 2013 poetry chapbook, published by Grey Book Press – and now available from Grey Book Press (and from my own Blood Pudding Press shop).

Support the press that chose to publish it by purchasing a copy here –

http://www.greybookpress.com/index.php/site/ind/poisonous_candy/

This chapbook was edited/published by poet and Grey Book Press editor Scott Sweeney – it’s weirdly awesome cover art was created by poet and artist Jay Snodgrass – and the innards by me are more than 20 different poems that vary from being written five years ago to mere months ago.

Here are the poem titles within this collection:

-Female Infestation

-Self Portrait as Cane Toad Anomaly

-Say She Had Dirty Follicles

-Ladyfingers

-The Moth

-The Ugly Duckling

-The Sugar Glider

-The Swan

-Red Moon Ashes

-Red Lunatic

-Venus Tree

-Spew

-Coiled

-Cacophony

-Volatility

-Spawning

-Stigmata Flicker

-A Sweet Tart Duck with Head Lobbed Off

-What He’s Really Sticking In

-Sucker Punch

-Contorted Impregnation