A NEW (mini) Review by J. Marc Harding of Juliet Cook's poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

 "This poetry is addictive and I'm going to need more. Read this."

J. Marc Harding

Another new (mini)review of Juliet Cook's "Malformed Confetti" poetry book (published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) 💜

Thank you to J. Marc Harding

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4352228489?book_show_action=false 

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Find out more about Malformed Confetti and consider acquiring a copy for yourself 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 Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_9

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

Juliet Cook reading from Malformed Confetti

A photo of Juliet Cook reading a few poems from her book, "Malformed Confetti", on October 10, 2019 at Loganberry Books.

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You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the authors own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo taken and altered by Jill K.

This coming Thursday October 10 - Juliet Cook reading at Loganberry Books!

Broadsides & Ephemera
Thursday, October 10, 7:00-8:30PM
This month we are featuring Juliet Cook! Juliet is a poet who has published many books of poetry, including her latest full-length book which is called "Malformed Confetti", as well as a chapbook called "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails.  She is the editor of a one-woman indie press called Blood Pudding Press, which features poetry and arty little misfit offerings. Juliet runs a literary blog-style magazine called Thirteen Myna Birds, which can be found at http://13myna.blogspot.com . She considers herself to be a "glitter witch" and she is a fine connoisseur of the odd and extraordinary! Check out her website at https://julietcook.weebly.com/, and come check out her poetry tonight, then stay to share your own work at the Open Mic!

Broadsides & Ephemera is a spoken word showcase by and for local writers. A perfect environment for shaping, sharing, and improving your poetry, prose, song, playwriting and performance art. Come one, come all!

http://www.loganberrybooks.com/

Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti inside another home!

Kit Rae Torque​ found a copy of Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti poetry book at a bookstore (The Book Loft of German Village)! 

You can acquire your very own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or if you would like a signed copy directly from the author, you can get one from the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Published by Crisis Chronicles Press in late 2018.

Gorgeous cover art by Simona Candini.

100+ pages of poetry by Juliet Cook.

(thank you to Kit for this photo!)

Malformed Confetti has found another new home - in a library!

Malformed Confetti by Juliet Cook (published by Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018) has recently been added to THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY. Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs.

https://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/newarrivals.asp?id=poetry 

So now you can borrow this book from the library. 💗

Of course, if you want your very own copy to keep (or give as a gift), you can acquire one from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O 

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Happy February! A new Interview about Juliet Cook and her poetry and her Malformed Confetti appears in the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent!

An interview with Juliet Cook about her poetry writing process and other poetic thoughts/feelings (and about her new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) appears within the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent, surrounded by poetry! - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

A wonderful NEW review of Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti

"A narrative voice of shape-shifting persona often addressing a "you" of unknown provenance. An "I" multiform, trying and discarding multiple guises...Language that reveals--and revels in--anatomical metaphor. Beneath the mascara, beneath even the epidermis, to stage III and IV pressure sores, clots, "crepuscular creep" and "throbbing pupa"..."

a part of this awesomely wonderful review by Wayne F Burke of Juliet Cook's poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018)

read the whole review HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1TOPEHI8G2FCD/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1640929738

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 Acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from Blood Pudding Press, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Malformed Confetti has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

Juliet Cook's full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (recently published by Crisis Chronicles Press in October of 2018) has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs for honoring my book in this way!

Congratulations and best of luck to the other nominees, too!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop (if you would like a hand-signed copy), HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Thank you again to Crisis Chronicles Press!

"Deadly Doll Dead Dissection" inside Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti and Juliet wearing a doll head

"Deadly doll head dissection. A dolly crematorium, an almost life less
doll. A doll scatterbrained, a doll agitating until it barfs up more awful
doll head gobbledygook. A spitting and hacking doll. Spinning, falling
and flailing inside the doll vomitorium. A dark doll somnambulating and
throwing up"

from the introductory poem creature,"Deadly Doll Head Dissection", which starts off Juliet Cook's new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE  - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo of author with doll head

A Few Lines from Juliet Cook's MALFORMED CONFETTI

"Once upon a time I wished to be wan
with black tips. Sooty tern in place of heart,
pecking, pecking. The shell cracks; it seeps
bone meal. Furry poltergeists sip from

my marrow like maggots
working a wound, little sinners
to digest the dead flesh until
the fur bristles.

It looked like a suckling pig between the legs
again, but one of my holes was birthing
a whole peccary."

inside the poem Balut, inside Juliet Cook's new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

MALFORMED CONFETTI beside the author's own googly eyed doll

"The paint is flaking off my lips.
It looks like dried blood. It looks like shit.
Even my hissy fits are unglossy.
Even the doll hospital won’t touch me

no matter how I plead for them to reset my eyes.
My voice is a wan green mushy pea squishing past
these gold-shellacked wish bones I’m choking on.
These chloroform-soaked apricot cookies

with their dainty scalloped edges
and poison-saturated centers."

inside Juliet Cook's poem "Doll Head Obscenity", inside her new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from Cook's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found another new home, next to a creepy doll!

Amy Bee received her copy of Juliet Cook's new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!
Displayed beside a delightfully creepy doll!
Photo taken by Amy Bee.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Next Sunday November 11th, November Uncloistered Poetry Reading!

Another poetry reading one week from today, Sunday November 11, 6-9 PM, at Calvino's Restaurant and Wine Bar, 3143 W Central Ave, Toledo, Ohio 43606!

Juliet Cook will be one of five featured readers (Lydia Ferguson Horvath, Matthew Sradeja, Juliet Cook, Bob Phillips, Rikki Santer), followed by an Open Mic.

She will also bring copies of some poetry chapbooks and books (including her newest chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" and her new full-length book, "Malformed Confetti"), in case anyone might be interested in buying one. :)

https://www.facebook.com/events/502184020297280/

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From One Ruined Human to Another - https://www.etsy.com/listing/634109226/from-one-ruined-human-to-another-by?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Malformed Confetti - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=listing-shop-header-1

Malformed Confetti has been added to Juliet Cook's website!

I have now added my new Malformed Confetti to the Juliet's Full-Lengths section of my website, HERE 🖤 - https://julietcook.weebly.com/juliets-full-lengths.html

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found a new home on Halloween!

photo taken by Susan Yount

Susan Yount received two copies of Malformed Confetti today, on Halloween!

Perfectly creepily displayed here next to a skeleton and two pumpkins awaiting their butchering.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Another NEW Review of an old book, "Horrific Confection" (AND a link to a new book,"Malformed Confetti")

"This is a dark collection of poetry focusing on childhood fears, eating disorders, body dysmorphia and…..cake. Well that is the feeling I get from reading this, it leaves a lot to the reader’s imagination, how you read certain lines in each poem can change the whole poem completely, it’s all very clever.

The book seems to span a great distance, with early poems showing childhood fears and being in awe of her mum, and then in later poems the poet has grown up and is writing about sex and her own baby (which I think may or may not have flippers)."

part of another new review of Juliet Cook's ten tear old first full-length poetry book, "Horrific Confection"

read the rest by clicking the link here - https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018/09/16/horrific-confection-by-juliet-cook/

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Ten years later (October 2018), Juliet Cook's second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, has finally come to life - and you might be interested in investigating that collection too!

HERE is its goodreads link - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42378555-malformed-confetti

Yours, Juliet Cook

A NEW Review of an old book, "Horrific Confection" (AND a link to a new book,"Malformed Confetti")

"Spin sugar with blood. Add cream, other miscellaneous bodily fluids and a dash of disease. Fold in your stitches and scars. Whisk for 2 minutes, then add emotional trauma to taste."

the beginning of a new review of my ten tear old first full-length poetry book, "Horrific Confection"

read the rest by clicking the link here -  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2488336405?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1 

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Ten years later (October 2018), my second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, has finally come to life - and you might be interested in investigating that collection too!

HERE is its goodreads link -https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42378555-malformed-confetti 

Yours, Juliet Cook

October 17, 2018 (Juliet Cook and her birthday and her Malformed Confetti)

Today is Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook's birthday and it is a wonderful day to have in her hands some copies of her NEW full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", newly published by Crisis Chronicles Press!

Yesterday evening included her book launch poetry reading at Art on Madison and here is a post-reading photo of Crisis Chronicles Press editor and poet, John Burroughs and Juliet, with hand-painted wine glasses and the new book!

Thank you to Crisis Chronicles John for publishing the book. 🖤

Thank you to Art on Madison for hosting the reading.

Thank you to Darryl for taking the photo. 💜

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You can acquire your very own copy of the book from Crisis Chronicles Press here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Also, if anyone would like a hand-signed copy of the book, you can acquire one directly from Juliet Cook by sending $12.00 to Julietcoo@gmail.com via paypal (along with your address) and she will mail you a copy.

Tomorrow! Poetry Plus Featuring Juliet Cook!

Tomorrow evening (October 16), one day before my birthday! A poetry reading book launch event for my new full-length poetry book,"Malformed Confetti", available from Crisis Chronicles Press! A link to the reading event, HERE -
https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/

A link to the new Malformed Confetti book, HERE -
https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html