Juliet Cook is still very excited and delighted about her recent poetry chapbooks!!!!

1 Year Ago, in 2023, I was very excited and delighted and grateful to have three different new poetry chapbooks published by three different independent small presses!

"red flames burning out" was published by Grey Book Press and is still available from them here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/ or from my own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry-chapboo

"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" was published by Gutter Snob Books and is now out of stock/out of print from Gutter Snob but I still have a very few copies available here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" was published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press and is currently sold out from Ethel but I still have a very few copies available here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

Then this year, 2014, I very recently (as in less than a month ago) had a new poetry chapbook published by Cul-de-sac of Blood! "REVOLTING" can be investigated and acquired from the Cul-de-sac HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Read a few more poems from Juliet Cook's NEW poetry chapbook, REVOLTING!

Here is a link to a new Cul-de-sac of Blood Instagram post, in which you can Preview some of the poems within Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, REVOLTING! -https://www.instagram.com/p/DDo9IIAxQGB/?img_index=1

REVOLTING is available from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from Cook, feel free to ask...

Read the first poem in Juliet Cook's NEW Poetry Chapbook, REVOLTING (and more)!

"Sometimes we learn the hard way
that some mice will eat their own babies

like sadistic cannibals, leaving nothing but half a body
attached to a head that will always live inside mine."

in the first poem ("From Hormone Imbalance to Death") within Juliet Cook's NEW chapbook, "REVOLTING" (very recently published by Cul-de-sac of Blood).

I'm sharing a few more photos of this chapbook, as well as this whole poem here.

Front cover - first page of poem - second page of poem - back cover.

You can acquire the whole chapbook (in conjunction with other chapbooks or by itself) from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or you can acquire it by itself directly from Cook.

(You can also see more photos and more details in this previous blog post HERE - https://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2024/11/my-new-poetry-chapbook-revolting-is-now.html)

NEW! Juliet Cook's poem "Stalks" is making an appearance in LIVE NUDE POEMS!

"Turbulent then blurring.
Trapped in the never ending
descent. Your spinal column
degenerates into a rotting corn stalk."

inside Juliet Cook's poem "Stalks", which is now appearing in LIVE NUDE POEMS

Read more HERE - http://www.livenudepoems.com/2024/12/juliet-cook.html

Juliet Cook's NEW poetry chapbook, REVOLTING, is now available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

Juliet Cook is very excited about her NEW darkly delicious and creepily disconcerting 2024 poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING", published by and newly available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

It is available along with 3 other poetry chapbooks ("Blood Bath" by Christine Kanownik - "Friday the 13th" by Jonathan Minton - "watch for deer" by Michael Sikkema).

All 4 have interconnected cover art by Kayte Terry!

All 4 are newly available NOW!

All 4 can be purchased together in a bundle for only $28 (which includes shipping).

OR they can be purchased individually for $8 each (which includes shipping) OR in sets of 2 or 3!

They are available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD here! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Please support small presses and also keep in mind that poetry chapbooks could make uniquely delightful holiday gifts (or anytime gifts) for those who adore or are inspired by poetry!

(Cook also has some extra copies of her REVOLTING chapbook if anyone would like to purchase directly from her for the same price. Just ask. But she also recommends buying more than one from the uniquely wonderful small press that published them all.)

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When I disagree, you launch
into a vanishing act
until I change my mind
or make my own thoughts disappear,
but I have my own brain waves, brimming with mice

slithering out, descending limbs, disfigured stumps
transfigured into wings
with their own inflections.

The more you try to force me to see what you see,
the darker I will become until I am
saturated in the real me,
ascending into reverse abandonment.

an excerpt from Cook's poem "Thirteen Mice", which appears inside REVOLTING

NEW! Juliet Cook is happy to have her poem "Disabled Cook Resigns" making an appearance in the Autumn/Winter 2024 Issue of Sein und Werden!

"An internal ice cream truck repeating
the same song again and again,
coiled bags of evil
clown heads on hooks."

in Juliet Cook's poem "Disabled Cook Resigns", which is now appearing within the NEW Autumn/Winter 2024 Issue of Sein und Werden, with its Locard's Exchange Principle theme.

She is delighted to be included and excited to read more of the issue!

Here is a link to Cook's poem - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn-winter24/page41.html

And here is a link to the whole issue - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn-winter24/

Happy or Unhappy November! Creeping into November with Dissolution and Decay, a new poem by Juliet Cook in Rogue Agent!

Creeping into November with Dissolution and Decay, a new poem by Juliet Cook is now appearing in Issue 116 of Rogue Agent! 

"I thought I had seen a hint
of blue. I momentarily thought
it was a new egg poking its way out
from a tiny gap in the old nest's fabric.
I temporarily imagined a mini forest
growing in all different directions
on all sides of the branches.

Then all the branches collapsed.
All the leaves fell down into ashes.
All the bright colors dissolved
or were covered up by dull brown
and gray. Dying hair and veins."

Read more here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-3

Dive into the whole November Issue here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue116

NEW! A collaborative poem by Daniel G. Snethen and Juliet Cook is appearing in Issue #106 of Yellow Mama!

Blood splatters the chalkboard

like malicious bite marks
which coagulate, then flow like crimson ink
spelling out in perfect combination:
"Here's Johnny!"
as the enraged father figure/evil teacher/bus driver

spits in my face, screams at me for being
a finicky eater, insists I stick my pinky finger
inside the pencil sharpener
and I do so—obediently, though it hurts.

in "Dire Wolf Consequences", a collaborative poem by Daniel G. Snethen and Juliet Cook, which is appearing in Yellow Mama Issue #106!

Preceded by art created by Keith Coats Walker!

Here's a link to the collaboration, but read Daniel's individual poems in this issue too, as well as investigating some of the other creepy fiction and poetry and art!

https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id3342.html

NEW! Two of Juliet Cook's creepy poems are newly appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Juliet Cook has two new short poems appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Usually when I have new poems up, I share a few lines from one of the poems, but this time I'm sharing Cul-de-sac of Blood's description of my poems because I love their description!

Furthermore, after you read the two poems, if interested you can click on "Learn More About These Poems".

Here's what Cul-de-sac said about my poems:

"Rotting bear dolls & chicken brains erase our heads & replace them with images of themselves, & though we might not have a name for this process, Juliet Cook’s poems show us what it feels like to find ourselves somewhere between foreground & background."

Read the poems HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-3

This photo of Henry Spencer (played by Jack Nance) in Eraserhead (directed by David Lynch) initially inspired the first poem.

Only a few copies left of Juliet Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR...

Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (published by Gutter Snob Books in 2023) is now Sold Out/Out of Stock from Gutter Snob Books, BUT you can still acquire a copy directly from Cook, from her Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

Also too, here's a recent review of Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR. Thank you very muck to Cat Russell!

"If you love creepy visceral poetry, Juliet Cook is the best poet you could possibly read! Imagery from your worst nightmares combined with vulnerability and insight, you're sure to love this book."