A bunch of Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks!

A bunch of new and old Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks have found a new home! 🖤💜💗🍁👻

(photo taken by Trina Stolec :) )

You can acquire some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks for yourself within the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress 

Listen to a reading of Blood Pudding Press poet Matthew J. Hall's poem, "harbouring thoughts of escape"

Listen to Jenny S. read the poem "harbouring thoughts of escape" by Matthew J. Hall, which appears in Hall's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Pigeons and Peace Doves.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGal7mE3YA

You can acquire your own copy of Pigeons and Peace Doves HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_10

And Yet Another New "Fuck Cancer Poems" has found a new home!

Matthew J. Hall received his copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover!

Get your own copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

(By the way, Matthew J. Hall is a Blood Pudding Press poet too - and his poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" can also be acquired from the Blood Pudding Press shop.) 

Happy Birthday to Blood Pudding Press poet Matthew J. Hall!

Today is the birthday of Blood Pudding Press poet, Matthew J. Hall - and his birthday might be a wonderful day to acquire a copy of his Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves", HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_feat_3

New Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall

"Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall permits the reader to feel and experience contemporary life in a way that I have yet to come across. Within his poems one finds anger, mixed with tenderness, held together with despair and hope. "

from a new review by Peter Jelen of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall

read more of the review here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1334029742?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1

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procure a copy of "Pigeons and Peace Doves" for yourself here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_listings

NEW Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015)

"A handful of Hall’s poems pull you into the darkness of his room, where he is at his most introspective."

from a new review of the poetry chapbook "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015), appearing at The Luxembourg Review.

Thank you to reviewer Nathan Hassall.

Read more of the review HERE - http://theluxembourgreview.org/2015/10/22/pigeons-and-peace-doves-a-review/

Procure a copy of Pigeons and Peace Doves for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_6

New Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Matthew J. Hall at Blot Lit

"The pigeons in my chapbook Pigeons and Peace Doves are – at least in part – a representation of trying to adjust to city life and dealing with the dark and ugly parts of life, in general. City pigeons are often referred to as flying rats because of their parasitic nature and disease spreading potential; but they are only like that as a consequence of the way urban culture functions. They are dirty because built up areas are dirty places to live. They are parasitic because we are wasteful. They often have missing feet, contorted legs or some other disfiguration because urban life is aggressive, self-serving and fast. I relate to these pigeons, yet I am disgusted by them, which is the other part of what they represent in this collection; my own contradictions, anxieties, depressions..."

From a new Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet, Matthew J. Hall up at Blot Lit.

Read more HERE - http://blotterature.com/2015/10/01/blot-lit-reviews-an-interview-with-matthew-j-hall/

Procure Matthew J. Hall's Blood Pudding Press chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_feat_2

NEW Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015)

"It is not often I come across a chapbook that incorporates the tangible materials of its binding and pages into the reading experience. The silvery sparkle of the grey pages and the messy, yet endearing thread binding of Matthew J. Hall’s Pigeons and Peace Doves gently pull the reader into a pool of melancholy reflection his poetry creates.

Through the narrator’s stream of consciousness, the reader is able to peer into the thoughts of an often stigmatized and ignored voice—the voice of those who live with mental illness. Hall writes candidly about depression and the contemplation of suicide, and he does justice to the realities of those living with mental health issues. The reader witnesses the narrator struggle. They are in bed with him as he is torn between the grace of the peace dove and the effrontery of the pigeon—the chaos of depression and the peace of mental health."

From a new Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall at Blot Lit Reviews.

Thank you to Blotterature Literary Magazine and reviewer Kayla Greenwell.

Partake of more HERE - http://blotterature.com/2015/09/30/blot-lit-reviews-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j-hall/

Procure a copy of the chapbook HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_4

NEW Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015)

A new review of the 2015 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew Hall.

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"The best poems in the collection...are confessional in style. They are highly reflective with a melancholic edge... These are mature, complex ideas & emotions adeptly handled by Hall in his poetry."

read more of this new review at BOLD MONKEY here -http://georgedanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/mathew-j-hall-pigeons-and-peace-doves.html

then consider procuring your very own copy of the chapbook at Blood Pudding Press here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_8

Get TWO 2015 Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbooks for a lowered price - Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon and Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall

End of June 2015, A NEW listing has just been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop, through which you can procure a SET OF TWO, meaning both 2015 contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, for a substantially lower price if you purchase them as a set.

Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon AND Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall for only 10 bucks (plus shipping).

Here's the listing - https://www.etsy.com/listing/238583883/get-two-2015-chapbooks-for-a-lowered?ref=shop_home_active_1

Thank You for Swallowing (Juliet Cook's new poem)!

"You want to make me want

what you want for yourself"

from Juliet Cook's poem "You pull your latest force field out and shoot another load" now up at Thank You for Swallowing, here! - https://thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/you-pull-your-latest-force-field-out-and-shoot-another-load/

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In other exciting poetic news (in case you missed it earlier this month) Blood Pudding Press, has a new poetry chapbook available, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall.  This is Hall's first chapbook published by a small press, it's sad and wonderful, and you can find out a little more about it (and see the lovely cover art created by Marcy Erb) in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress and/or also via Hall's own website, Screaming with Brevity here - http://www.screamingwithbrevity.com/.  

You can also currently partake of three of the poems from this chapbook within the latest Thirteen Myna Birds flock here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

A NEW Thirteen Myna Birds flock is alive as of June 2015 - snarling and breathing and vibrant and heavy!

Thirteen Myna Birds is now an all new entourage of unusual and uniquely powerful poetry offerings - starting with three emotionally moving poems from the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall - and followed by a malformed force field of creepy, sexy, strange, and odd treats by Jennifer Hanks, Lynsey G, and Ellie White.

"love, even as pure as hers would never be enough - nights I drip in bed - honey coming from the scrapes - my spine the fuel of stars - four heads snarling against their stomachs - I see ferns now and tear off my shoes, sometimes everything - your dogs step out of their split skins - leaving plaster dust hanging like a pulled-apart cotton ball - bread molding blue - the Venus de Milo was flesh once, female and breathing - the heads were vibrant and heavy - bones harbor the prettiest ghosts"

Here it is - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

An Excerpt from Pigeons and Peace Doves (Matthew J. Hall's NEW Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbook) created by Marcy Erb, appearing at Illustrated Poetry Today

Marcy Erb, the cover artist of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall., has created and featured an excerpt from this collection on Illustrated Poetry Today, HERE - http://illustratedpoetry.com/2015/06/09/city-poem-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-2070

NEW from Blood Pudding Press! - Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall - the second Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2015!

June 2015 offers you the new "Pigeons and Peace Doves", the second Blood Pudding Press Contest Winning poetry chapbook of the year - and the first poetry chapbook by Matthew J. Hall.

It includes thirteen gorgeously written, emotionally rendering poems by Matthew J. Hall that are "representative of a...self-destructive struggle, an internal struggle".

Matthew J. Hall is an artist and writer living in Bristol, England. He is an avid reader, writer and reviewer of poetry and fiction and has been featured in some fine literary publications and websites including The Small Press Book Review, Literary Orphans, Rusty Truck and Hobo Camp Review. To read more from Matthew, visit his blog (www.screamingwithbrevity.com) where he frequently publishes reviews and other poetry and fiction related things.

Here are a few lines from one of the Pigeons poems, "This City is Sad and Angry", followed by a photo of the new chapbook.

You can procure a copy of these broken, lovely Pigeons for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_2

"the high risers are leaning in

and the tarmac pulls

and sadness wells and spills

in and from the crippled pigeon’s eyes

I think he wants to cry

but doesn’t know how

I'd like to make a lollipop-stick splint 

for his contorted leg"