NEW! Juliet Cook reviews the poetry collection, {f}ragile Nests by Pella {f}elton!

Check out this new review written by Juliet Cook about Pella Felton's new uniquely wonderful poetry collection, {f}ragile Nests (published by Roadside Press) and then consider buying a copy of the book if you don't have one yet.

Thank you to The Literary Underground for publishing Cook's review.

Here is a link to the whole review, followed by a few snippets from the review - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/07/23/juliet-cook-reviews-fragile-nests-by-pella-felton/

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"The beginning of the book involves an interesting and multifaceted Prologue, which expresses, among many other contradictory complexities, “I co[m]e fro[m] a box that should not exist”. But Pella’s box definitely does exist (within many different facets and interconnections), definitely deserves to exist, and definitely deserves to be viewed, heard, read, and explored."

one snippet from the review; read more by clicking the link above

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"I’ve also been thinking about glass cages and glass coffins lately (in part, because I’m repeatedly inserting glass coffins into a small series of interconnected poems I’m in the process of working on) and so I visualized Pella’s box (or one of them) as a glass coffin she was breaking through. Breaking through a glass mirror or a glass coffin involves cracks and shards and wounds but once the glass is broken through something new may emerge. Something that has been somewhat hiding inside oneself for quite some time (like a poem) and shall now be revealed in varying phases and styles and degrees"

another snippet from the review; read more by clicking the link above

A NEW Review by Vin Whitman of Juliet Cook's poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

"The first half of this book struck me as centering around the unspoken, subconscious experience of femininity as our society expects it, and accepts it — as one of denying the "haunted holes" and "writhing undersides" in favor of the desirable, glittery aspects. The 2nd part of the book began to sound like a near death experience, then I read in the author's bio that she had suffered an arterial tear and a stroke at a very young age, and many of the poems herein are an autobiographical account of that scary episode and the long road to recovery."

part of a new review by Vin Whitman of Juliet Cook's poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018) of which you can read the rest by clicking below...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4350020263?book_show_action=false#_=_ ***

You can find out more about Malformed Confetti and consider acquiring a copy for yourself (or as a holiday gift for a friend) via Crisis Chronicles Press here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or via Amazon here - https://www.amazon.com/Malformed-Confetti-Juliet-Cook/dp/1640929738

Or from the authors own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_9