NEW! Su Zi's Review of Juliet Cook's Poetry Chapbook REVOLTING!

"Often, the chapbook might come from someone we actually do not know. Oh, obviously we saw the post about this new work, and maybe other posts from the press or the author, but we don’t really know their favorite flavor of ice cream. We are gambling that perhaps there will be something here to ponder, something that speaks to our interior selves...

...The book is a pure example of the chapbook format, and this one has a subtle and elegant presence. Ironic to this perception is the book’s title Revolting (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024), the work being a recent offering from Juliet Cook..."

...Cook’s style oscillates between the conversational and the surreal..."

a few snippets from Su Zi's new Review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook "Revolting".

In addition to reviewing this chapbook, the article also focuses on the joy of print poetry chapbooks, discoveries from the online poetry community, the importance of independent presses, and more.

"In our times now of needing to prioritize individual makers over global producers, it does a greater good to buy a chapbook..."

Thank you very much to Su Zi for writing this wonderful review/article and thank you very much to GAS: Poetry, Art & Music, and Belinda Subraman for publishing and sharing it!

Read more here - https://gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com/2025/05/su-zis-review-of-juliet-cooks-revolting.html 

Acquire a copy of REVOLTING (and/or other chapbooks) from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books 

Or get this chapbook (and/or other chapbooks) directly from Cook's own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

Happy May! Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is now one week old and still available!

Happy May!

Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is now one week old and still available!

Don't hate me because I'm weird and repetitive.

Thank you to Pure Sleeze Press for publishing this, along with four other new chapbooks, all of which will remain available until they sell out.

"Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" can be purchased for $8 (plus $5 shipping)!

Or you can get all five new chapbooks in a Five Book Bundle for $30!

Acquire mine and/or 1, 2, 3 or all 4 of the remaining others while they are still available.

Here's the link to buy them from Pure Sleeze Press! - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/

Cook also has some copies of "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" so if you'd like to acquire my chapbook directly from me for the same price, that is a possibility too. Please do feel free to reach out...

Happy Poetry Month! It's Not Quite Done Yet! Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is now available from Pure Sleeze Press until it sells out! Get It Before It's Gone!

Happy Poetry Month!

As of Friday April 25, 2025, the new Spring chapbooks from Pure Sleeze Press were made officially available until they sell out!

This includes Juliet Cook's new "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" for $8 (plus $5 shipping)!

Several other new chapbooks are also available for $8 each (or a Five Book Bundle for $30)!

Acquire mine and/or 1, 2, 3, or all 4 others before they sell out!

Here's the link to buy them from Pure Sleeze Press! - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/

Thank you very much to Pure Sleeze Press, Jonathan S Baker, and K Ann Sea for publishing these chapbooks!

Also, thank you very much to Chad M. Horn, whose art appears on the cover of mine.

A few photos of "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" and a sampling from one of the poems inside it appears below.

(Cook also has some author copies of "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" available for sale, so if you'd like to acquire a chapbook directly from the author for the same price, that is a possibility too. Please do feel free to reach out...)...

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I wasn't sure if I was human anymore.
Maybe I was a goose in labor,
giving birth to a subhuman or else
I was in the middle of aborting my own brain
inside another terrible dream, trapped
underneath a seeping blue machine
shaped like a giant pill container
with cracked slots that don't keep anything inside.

A loudly honking lullaby of horrific
conjoined twin geese, a grody gaggle
of gag reflexes swarming out of my mouth,
blue stingers instead of wings.

in the poem "Both Similar and Dissimilar", in Juliet Cook's chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", Pure Sleeze Press, late April 2025

Get Your Own Copy of Juliet Cook's Revolting Poetry Chapbook!

Thank you very much to Sandra Feen for this photo of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook "Revolting" (published by Cul-de-sac of Blood in November 2024).

You can acquire your own copy of this chapbook from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or directly from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

Wishing you a REVOLTING Happy New Year brimming with poetry!

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

HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

(Or feel free to ask her if you'd like to acquire one directly from her and let it revolt its way into your New Year)!

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"The dirty germs growing under your bed will give you a UTI.
Your cruddy lip ring is hissing mold down your unclean throat.
Since you don't believe in heaven or hell, you will burn in mold."

in the poem "A Moldy Bathtub Is a Sin and You Must Repent Forever, Because She Said So" (which appears within Cook's REVOLTING chapbook)

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"This is such a good book. Rips off the scab and gives the wound oxygen. Some of Cook's best work."

A little Goodreads Review of REVOLTING. Thank you very much to John Burroughs!

 
In case anyone else who reads it might be interested in Reviewing it (via Goodreads or elsewhere) or recommending it or...

Here is the Goodreads link - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222804547-revolting

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Furthermore, Cook is also very excited to have another new poetry chapbook manuscript, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", recently chosen for publication by Pure Sleeze Press and forthcoming in Spring 2025!

Viva la Poetry!

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)

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

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

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Juliet Cook's newest poetry chapbook, published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press in December 2023) has now been added to the 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 ***

"He thinks he can make it up to you
by suddenly replacing you

with an eyeless, mouthless mannequin,
silently positioned against your closed garage door
like an unasked for reminder or a secret test.

She thinks she can make it up to you
by telling you to rip off its head
and immediately toss it in the garbage can.

As if all of this is easy
as long as you don't speak for yourself."

in the poem "Some People Want to Remove Your Eyes"

***

A few more lines from (and a few more photos of) Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"...

"She doesn't see what she doesn't want to see. Part of me
can pretend I don't see it either. Another glass
figurine stained with blood, but we keep on pretending
it's red paint, at least until it dries. The color quietly darkens,
then starts cracking into broken pieces. But I didn't throw it
directly at anyone's face."

in the poem "Glass Figurines Stained With Blood", in Cook's new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press, December 2023).

You can find out more about and/or acquire a copy of this chap for yourself or a friend via the links below...

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

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

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

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

"The doll with the stick figure heart
written on her torn shirt
and then erased.

The doll whose broken head begs for sanctuary
as she lives inside the garbage can, un-bagged,
praying she won't get completely thrown away.

Some of them were thrown down the stairs by others.
Some of them threw themselves down.
Some of them were shaken and dragged

by the mouths of dogs, smell like filthy
dried out saliva mixed with blood stains.
The dolls with eyes that will never be put back together."

in the poem "Some of the Dolls are Trapped in the Basement"

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 Cook's 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" (Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook) is now available!

"In this diorama, Bob is cut into pieces,
repositions itself inside different damaged brains.

While bobbing for apples, she screams
at what lies underneath the core.
Her flickering power lines will bleed into the void.

Some will see the red apples as ball gags inside her mouth.
Some will see the red apples as representations of Hell.
Some will say Hell does not exist."

(in the poem "Invaded Cores")

***

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 Cook's own real life experiences, thoughts, and feelings doused into dark red poetry.

Dive into Cook's 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 (Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook) is COMING SOON!

Juliet Cook is very excited about her 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.

More of Juliet Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR poetry chapbook!

"From a melancholic baby clown caricature

to a giant clown shoe buzzing with blood

sucking mosquitos

to another clown killer."

in the poem Red Silicone

in Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (Gutter Snob Books, July 2023)

CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR is available from The Magical Jeep HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

It is also available from Amazon HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Contorted-Doom-Conveyor-Gutter-Books/dp/B0C6W7C2HV/?fbclid=IwAR3KE6QSri7SdVZ9EvZet0EuUhju862Ju9jlnhpWqUiPlZ8tSi7Qce0z0TE

It is also available in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

More of Juliet Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR!

"It's your fault for pulling an ex-friends hair out
of the bathtub drain and placing the hair on a condescending letter
as if you were better than them because you didn't shove your own hair
down that drain. Instead you obsessively hacked your own hair off
and stuck it inside a tiny garbage can with the bathroom door locked.

You repeatedly locked doors and sat on counters near the sink
against the mirror, divided your face into numbered sections
and secretly conducted your own compulsive rituals against yourself.
You somehow let yourself believe your own anxiety
and obsessive streaks made more sense than someone else's depression."

in the poem "THROWING IT AWAY DOESN'T MEAN IT DIDN'T HAPPEN" in Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR, published by Gutter Snob Books in July 2023.

A photo of  CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (underneath a light purple skull head), which is newly available from Gutter Snob Books.

get it HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

or get it HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Contorted-Doom-Conveyor-Gutter-Books/dp/B0C6W7C2HV/?fbclid=IwAR3KE6QSri7SdVZ9EvZet0EuUhju862Ju9jlnhpWqUiPlZ8tSi7Qce0z0TE

or please feel free to let Cook know if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from her...

 

Another new comment about Juliet Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR poetry chapbook!

"I’ve been a fan of Juliet Cook’s poetry for a long while, but her latest book from Gutter Snob Books is nothing short of brilliant. Full of metaphors that’ll make your head spin, and brave honesty that makes you want to dig deeper within your own heart. Some of the most poignant poetry you’ll read this year."

Dan Denton's thoughts on Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (Gutter Snob Books)!

CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR is now available via Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Contorted-Doom-Conveyor-Gutter-Books/dp/B0C6W7C2HV/?fbclid=IwAR3EXO41KfukDQTv7b_jaYyLQhGUJhWAM6sKTGF516b02RbOSy9CV0w_ER4

Or if you'd like to acquire one directly from Juliet, just let her know. It costs $13 plus $3.95 shipping for a total of $16.95.

photo by Dan Denton

A NEW review of Juliet Cook's "CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" poetry chapbook!

Thank you very much to James Lawson Moore for his new review of Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR", newly published by Gutter Snob Books!

"Juliet Cook’s latest chapbook, “Contorted Doom Conveyor,” is a brilliant attempt at misdirection. Through deceptively simply structured verses the author uses deceptively bubblegum-induced imagery to describe the passions, the longings, and the inner demons of a war torn mind. The war is fought completely on the internal—the soul at war with itself as it seeks comfort from the madness.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Please check it out."

CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR is now available from the publisher here - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

Or if you'd like to acquire one directly from the author, that's a possibility too. It's available in her Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

 

Juliet Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR has arrived!

Juliet Cook received her author copies of her latest poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (Gutter Snob Books) in the mail!

She also received some preordered copies to sign and send back to the publisher!

Those interested who haven't yet acquired a copy can acquire a copy here (they'll be shipping out next month, July 2023) - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

Or if you'd like to acquire one directly from Juliet, that's a possibility too. Just let her know. It costs $13 plus $3.95 shipping for a total of $16.95. ❤️

A new mini review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out"!

"There is nothing like a Juliet Cook book of pomes. These beautifully written lines will slap you. Highly recommended."

J. Marc Harding's review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" (published by Grey Book Press in April 2023)!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5581447610

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red flames burning out is available from Grey Book Press HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

It is also available in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

Three Blurbs on the back cover of Juliet Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR!

Thank you very much again to Lennart Lundh, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, and Cat Russell for writing these blurbs about Juliet Cook's forthcoming poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR! And thank you very much to Michele McDannold and Gutter Snob Books for choosing to publish it this July! It is currently available for preorder HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140