NEW! A Review of Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", thanks to Rachel Kendall of Sein und Werden!

"The poems in Blue Stingers Instead of Wings are not the confessional poetry of Sexton or Plath. Cook’s confessions are horrific contortions, the blood and shit and metamorphosis of otherness, of disturbed mind over decaying matter. Here, imagined fears, like decapitation by ceiling fan, and disrupted brain flow imagery are scattered throughout, alongside the very real issues of misogyny and beauty, and the invisibility that comes with feminine maturation."

A sample within a new and much appreciated Review of Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" (Pure Sleeze Press)!

Thank you very much to Rachel Kendall, writer and editor of Sein und Werden, for writing this review!

Read more of the review here - https://seinundwerden.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by-juliet-cook/
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"Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" can be acquired through Pure Sleeze Press here - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

Or from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by

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/

NEW! Juliet Cook is excited and delighted to have two poems appearing in the 20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden!

Juliet Cook is excited and delighted to have two haiku poems appearing in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Sein und Werden! The theme of this issue is To Settle a Score and it's the 20th anniversary issue of this magazine! Here is one of her two poems, called "VIOLENT DREAD" and if you visit the link to the magazine (below the poem), it appears next to an art piece called "SELF-PORTRAIT (UNDEFINED HORROR)" by Julie Blankenship. I love the poem and art piece next to each other. ***

VIOLENT DREAD

Every bit of depth

shot down into dread. Psycho

babbling brooks with hooks.

If internal angst

internally combusts, eyes

will explode. My head

a human-sized blood

bath of burnt dumplings. Sauced out.

Splattering your plate.

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/page31.html

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It's hard to believe that this is the 20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden and that I've had creative work appearing in this literary magazine (on and off) ever since Sein und Werden began. Sein's creator, primary editor, and writer Rachel Kendall and I first got to know each other on xanga (a blog platform that hasn't existed for years). It's hard to keep a literary magazine alive for this long, so cheers to Rachel. This issue also includes some Interviews with Rachel, such as an Interview about The Storied History of Sein und Werden.

I shall stop my babbling for now, but again, I'm delighted to be included in this 20th anniversary issue and will place a link to the whole issue below...

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/index.html

NEW! Two poems with centipedes inside them making an appearance in the new issue of Sein und Werden!

"When I woke up after the hundred year fate
of every space being filled with flying centipedes,
I found out that now our flying centipedes were the one
and only food source. Sometimes sustenance stings
if you don't bow down to the centipede leaders"

in Juliet Cook and j/j hastain's poem "Centipede Cider"

Very excited to have one individual poem by Juliet Cook and one collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook appearing in the new Autumn/Winter 2023 Issue of Sein und Werden!

And both poems have centipedes inside them.

Check out the contents HERE - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn-winter23/contents.html

Juliet Cook's "It's Raining Centipedes" poem HERE - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn-winter23/page35.html

Juliet Cook and j/j hastain's "Centipede Cider" poem HERE - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn-winter23/page38.html

A NEW publication of an OLD poem by Juliet Cook in Sein und Werden's Of Human Bondage Issue

"Rewinding in slow motion.
Freezing her molten toes.
That slick pose."

in Juliet Cook's poem "FOOTAGE"

(this is a NEW publication of an OLD poem, now re-appearing in the Of Human Bondage Issue of Sein und Werden)

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/winter20/page39.html?fbclid=IwAR06ZdF47Yy-pxRd_8WjoNgDNSvGrYWOhl3I1sd6WNnBuGT-h8yPpkz0I4U

NEW! July is upon us and Sein und Werden has re-emerged and includes one of Juliet Cook's poems!

the newborns might just be a hoax.
A doll whose eyes are bleeding

sour raspberry jam. A mouth rasping,
trying to hiss its way out of a dollhouse.

July is upon us and Sein und Werden has re-emerged!

Juliet Cook is delighted to have one of her Museum of Impending Death poems appearing in this new Summer 2020 Issue of Sein und Werden, Le Retour!

Appearing beside some wonderful art, Entombed By Their Hate by Walter Savage!

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer20/page7.html

NEW! The CORPUS Issue of Sein und Werden!

the broken pieces still have brains to fill
with fury and onward activity no matter how
many times they're knocked down

From "My Dolls Aren't For Hunting", one of two of Juliet Cook's poems appearing within the new CORPUS Issue of Sein und Werden!
Happy Spring and...

"* WARNING: go no further if you are of a squeamish nature.
This issue includes images of anatomical wax models which may cause fainting/hysteria/rage!" 

Read more HERE:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring16/contents.html

NEW Sein Und Werden - Now We Are Ten!

Partake of the new issue of Sein und Werden, Now We Are Ten, in celebration of the publications tenth year! 

Every single piece is entitled "Now We Are Ten" and there are offerings of work by Robert Cole, j/j hastain, Suzanne Grazyna, and many more...including a poem by Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook, here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/winter14/contents.html

New Review of House on Fire

An amazing new review of "House on Fire", Susan Yount's 2014 contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, thank you to AJ Huffman and Sein und Werden!

"House on Fire, a 25-page chapbook by Susan Yount, is a verbal mixture of pastoral imagery and apocalyptic Armageddon bombs. Yount has created a modern, almost Wizard of Oz feeling that takes us way beyond Kansas in this simplistically powerful, yet emotionally intense collection of poetry.

The visceral portrait of everyday horrors juxtaposed against the speaker's personal horrors, the kind of horrors that prefer to remain hidden behind closed doors, hang like a tornado-ready to consume everything in their path at any moment. Readers are immediately swept up in the storm, our hearts and minds twisted with empathy and outrage at the scenes before us."

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW by A J Huffman here:
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/yount.html

Then buy the book here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_3

NEW Sein und Werden - Theatrum Diabolorum!

The new Sein und Werden - Theatrum Diabolorum includes two collaborative poems involving Blood Pudding Press editor, Juliet Cook! 

This issue seems too darkly deliciously good to be true! It offers work by numerous strangely scrumptious writers, such as...

Alessandra Bava! (whose new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "They Talk About Death", can be purchased from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_active_21)

Jennifer MacBain-Stephens! (who wrote a very recent wonderful review of "They Talk About Death" here - http://www.thethepoetry.com/category/infoxicated-corner/)

Suzanne Grażyna! (whose poetry also appears alongside individual and collaborative work by multiple poets within the poetry chapbook, "Fainting Couch Idioglossia", which can be purchased from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/100844207/fainting-couch-idioglossia-by-multiple?ref=shop_home_active_2)

A collaborative poem by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole (which will also appear within their collaborative poetry chapbook, "MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM", forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press!

A collaborative poem by Juliet Cook and Joseph Goosey...and some individual pieces by another collaborator,  j/j hastain!...and lots more goodies to partake of too.

Talk about an awesomely unexpected surprise I can hardly wait to dive into (and maybe you should too)...

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn14/index.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). 

‘high-quality bordello, stinking of sex and joie de vivre’

I am pleased and excited to announce that [GROWLING SOFTLY] has received a stupendous new review by Rachel Kendall in the latest issue of ‘Sein Und Werden’.

Here is the beginning of Ms. Kendall’s delectable commentary:


‘Sumptuous, sexy, glossy, dangerous, voluptuous… are some of the words that sprang immediately to mind when I first held in my hands the new poetry chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, edited by Juliet Cook. Never have I been so undecided whether to rip open the covers of the book in front of me, like tearing the rind off a plump fruit, or put it behind glass, its own coffin, free of sticky finger tips, cigarette smoke and babies breath. It's as glossy as freshly painted lips, shiny as cut glass and just as cruelly enticing. And the title, the title, growling softly. A threat, a warning, a guttural sigh. Each copy is one of a kind, with the editrix obviously spending a lot of time and delight putting each together with ribbon and lace. The paper is sepia, a little jagged at the edges. It is high-quality bordello, stinking of sex (almost) and joie de vivre.

But, the thing is to be read. It is not here simply for my visual enjoyment. So, to its 'sticky innards', what is the poetry inside actually like? Well I won't say I savoured every piece, but out of 41, most are spine-tinglingly excellent while the rest are good. I didn't dislike a single poem, only, the subject or rhythm of some appealed more than others.

There's a whole gamut of sordid little packages here, dirty bundles of stanzas, pert verses and rancid subjects oozing from every page.’


And there’s plenty more where that came from. To experience the review in its entirety, please click here:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/2_3/page4.html


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The entire new issue of ‘Sein Und Werden’—themed ‘What the Vulture Ate for Tea’—is worth looking into while you’re at it—steeped and teeming with twisted fairy tale poetry by the likes of Misti Rainwater-Lites (a steamy [GROWLING SOFTLY] contributor), Susan Slaviero (editor of the new ‘blossombones’, soon to publish its very first issue), Kristina Marie Darling, and many more.

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Plus, ‘Planchette’ is almost here.

A delightful little teaser image from 'Planchette' cover artist, Art and Ghosts: