Summer 2013 Menacing Hedge

The new summer 2013 issue of Menacing Hedge offers surrealist poetry and fiction and interviews and more by oodles of interesting writers, including five collaborative poems by Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook and Robert Cole!  

Within the Menacing Hedge, you can read the poetry and fiction while LISTENING TO THE WRITERS read them.  

Read read read, listen listen listen - and then create some of your own poetry and art. 

Here - http://menacinghedge.com/summer2013/index.php

(These five poems by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole are from their forthcoming collaborative poetry chapbook, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014).  

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.