Another NEW Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

"Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm is a deliciously dismembered chapbook of collaborative poetry by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole. The poems are dark in nature; body parts, dismemberment, and pain abound throughout the collection, creating a feeling of sinister sexuality, submission, and mutation."

from a new review written by Kathy Burkett of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)

Read the review in its entirety here - 

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1175490268?book_show_action=false

Get yourself a copy of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM from Hyacinth Girl Press here - 

http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM! A new collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole, published by Hyacinth Girl Press, January 2015

Very excited and creepily delighted to announce a new collaborative poetry chapbook by Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook and Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, freshly published and now available from Hyacinth Girl Press!

The twisted mutant innards of this creature are a peculiar fit for an utterly unique and creative and somewhat disturbing New Year!

The hideously awesome cover art was created by Christen Baer and offers different art on the front AND the back!

Below are a few poem lines from the MUTANT and below that is a book blurb by Laura Madeline Wiseman.

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"Necroplasm flows in a cemetery conduit
leading to a cave dead with purple

where the light at the end of the tunnel
is another tunnel smoldering beyond control.

He/she/it can no longer speak for itself,
but the semi-rigamortised mouth spews out
unexpected pitcher plants, partially digested."

some lines from the poem "Churning Codex Portal"

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"Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm swarms with unexpected delights for the sybil nymph, the cryogenic witch, the blue goddess and more. Here the body with its twisted wings, heart strings, and sticky salivary gland salutations, is a body that knows Nobody can touch us anymore and nobody can save us. Whose body you wonder? Are they Human? Truth is, as Cook and Cole explain, You decide. How do you decide? You enter with the collaborating pair into an incomplete metamorphosis where you’re commanded DON’T stop DON’T stop DON’T stop DON’T you dare! and told homeless men walk around with sporks. So sit back and allow Cole and Cook to place the napkin just so, for Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm purrs with language play, with surprising imagery, and with an attention to sound that will razzle dazzle the neurons in this thrilling new collaborative chapbook."

- Laura Madeline Wiseman

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Get yourself a copy from Hyacinth Girl Press here! - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

lots of little poetry portals

"I don't think poetry can be "found" by picking up a rock or a dead bird off the ground and simply calling it poetry and that's IT - but I do think poetry/art can be unexpectedly yet significantly inspired by such findings. For me, something about the visual imagery of bird fetuses and the thoughts then provoked in my mind can stimulate poetry/art. Same with other sorts of small things that many people would overlook and/or would find unworthy of much consideration and/or would find grossly unappealing. The tendency to ignore things like that makes me wonder WHY. Is it because of being easily grossed out? Is it because small odd things are inconsequential to the mainstream? Is it because of fear of death, fear of demise, fear of being crushed by something larger, fear of non-existence?"

A snippet from an interview with Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook (about dead birds, art, poetry, publishing and more), which appears within the new issue of Sein und Werden, here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer13/index.html

The interview also brings up Cook's recent collaborative work with Robert Cole – and a collaborative poem by the two of them, “Churning Codex Portal”, appears in this issue of Sein as well. 

“Churning Codex Portal” is a poem from their collaborative chapbook, “Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm”, chosen to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014.

A few more poems from that chapbook are soon to appear online within “Black Heart Magazine” and “Menacing Hedge” (via which you will be able to hear them read some of the poems too).

Also  a new individual poem by Juliet Cook is coming soon from POETSARTISTS (The Social Portrait). 

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM collaboration

Delighted to make a small annoucement that Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook and her collaborative creepy young yumhead poet creature, Robert Cole had their new collaborative poetry chapbook - MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM - accepted for publication by Hyacinth Girl Press, to be published next year! 

Hyacinth Girl Press published Juliet Cook's Thirteen Designer Vaginas in 2011 and now will be publishing her again (together with Robert Cole) three years later.

I imagine that Hyacinth Girl Press will make an official announcement after they choose all the new chapbooks they're going to publish next - but as of right now, they are still accepting and reading chapbook manuscript submissions, throughout the month of May.

The First Review of Juliet Cook's Thirteen Designer Vaginas

"As in all Cook's work, there is wonderfully dynamic wordplay, an undercurrent of horror and little tolerance for the candy-coated comforts..."

A small snippet from the very first review of Juliet Cook's Thirteen Designer Vagina's poetry chapbook now appears on the Melusine blog, here:

http://melusineblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/juliet-cooks-thirteen-designer-vaginas.html

Thank you very much to Melusine editor Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom AND of course to Hyacinth Girl Press, which published the chapbook.

Here is another snippet from the review:

"In these poems Cook's signature motif of the "doll injection mold" is applied to the one aspect of anatomy the cookiecutter-variety plastic girl's doll explicitly lacks but which, for the adult woman, has nevertheless failed to escape the influence of the "injection mold" philosophy of shame for any sort of deviance from an arbitrarily prescribed ideal."

Here is where you can buy yourself a copy of the chapbook if so inclined:

http://hyacinthgirlpress.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/thirteen-designer-vaginas-now-available/

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And speaking of small press poetry chapbooks brimming with artsy darkly delicious delight, Blood Pudding Press will be offering a newly published chapbook, very very soon!

LETTERS FOM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL by Margaret Bashaar.

Stay tuned if you dare.

Thirteen Designer Vaginas (a meatier variety of snapdragon)

Another wonderous new small press called Hyacinth Girl Press has published there very first poetry chapbook - and that chapbook is Juliet Cook's Thirteen Designer Vaginas.

It was the browsing of vaginal rejuvenation sites that inspired her to start writing her designer vagina poems. She got grossed out by the photos and medical notations and wondered what the heck she was looking for and then realized that she was conducting "poetry research"!

Don't you want to delve into some scrumdilicious pussy poems?

Snip snip pivot! Vaginatical! Va Va Voom!

Read a sneak peak snippet below; partake of a cover image; and then purchase your own new vaginas via another bit of linkage underneath!

My pink scalloped lips part, a meatier variety
of snapdragon. A strange but effective treatment
is meat tenderizer. Then I’m so deliciously numb,
it’s like tying phantom limbs to four horses & performing
surgery, as an audience applauds those delicately trembling lobes.



Get one here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/76985573/thirteen-designer-vaginas-by-juliet-cook

Or here:

http://hyacinthgirlpress.wordpress.com/