NEW! Juliet Cook is excited and delighted to have a new poem running around the darkly delicious Cul-de-sac of Blood!

"Spectator of my own eye
stuck in the middle

of a missing plate
on top a stolen spoon."

in Juliet Cook's poem "Another Pie in the Face"

Delighted this poem is running around the darkly delicious Cul-de-sac of Blood track, HERE! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-5

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Speaking of Cul-de-sac of Blood and poetry, you can still acquire Cook's poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING", which was published by Cul-de-sac of Blood last year, directly from the Cul-de-sac HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted to have two poems newly appearing in Misfit Magazine Issue No. 40, Summer 2025!

"Multiple windshields crash
and crack against each other
and I can't decide which side
of the road I'm on because I'm surrounded
with evil doppelgangers..."

within the poem "Dream State Collision Course Filled With Secrets", one of two of Cook's poems newly appearing in Misfit Magazine Issue No. 40, Summer 2025

read more HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-40/Cook.html 

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Also in the Books Received and Acknowledged section of this issue of Misfit, is a small Review of Cook's poetry chapbook "REVOLTING" (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024). Thank you very much to Alan Catlin. 

"Cook is master of disambiguation, of obsessive images featuring detached body parts, doll’s heads, and the like, sort of like a nightmare of disarticulating dream states. Often the reader feels as if the words, the body parts in the poems are revolting against the poem/the self. It’s uncomfortable but it’s always eye opening and intriguing. Not your standard poetic fare."

If interested, you can acquire your own copy of "REVOLTING" here - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or within Cook's Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

NEW! Su Zi's Review of Juliet Cook's Poetry Chapbook REVOLTING!

"Often, the chapbook might come from someone we actually do not know. Oh, obviously we saw the post about this new work, and maybe other posts from the press or the author, but we don’t really know their favorite flavor of ice cream. We are gambling that perhaps there will be something here to ponder, something that speaks to our interior selves...

...The book is a pure example of the chapbook format, and this one has a subtle and elegant presence. Ironic to this perception is the book’s title Revolting (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024), the work being a recent offering from Juliet Cook..."

...Cook’s style oscillates between the conversational and the surreal..."

a few snippets from Su Zi's new Review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook "Revolting".

In addition to reviewing this chapbook, the article also focuses on the joy of print poetry chapbooks, discoveries from the online poetry community, the importance of independent presses, and more.

"In our times now of needing to prioritize individual makers over global producers, it does a greater good to buy a chapbook..."

Thank you very much to Su Zi for writing this wonderful review/article and thank you very much to GAS: Poetry, Art & Music, and Belinda Subraman for publishing and sharing it!

Read more here - https://gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com/2025/05/su-zis-review-of-juliet-cooks-revolting.html 

Acquire a copy of REVOLTING (and/or other chapbooks) from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books 

Or get this chapbook (and/or other chapbooks) directly from Cook's own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

Read a few more poems from Juliet Cook's NEW poetry chapbook, REVOLTING!

Here is a link to a new Cul-de-sac of Blood Instagram post, in which you can Preview some of the poems within Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, REVOLTING! -https://www.instagram.com/p/DDo9IIAxQGB/?img_index=1

REVOLTING is available from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from Cook, feel free to ask...

Read the first poem in Juliet Cook's NEW Poetry Chapbook, REVOLTING (and more)!

"Sometimes we learn the hard way
that some mice will eat their own babies

like sadistic cannibals, leaving nothing but half a body
attached to a head that will always live inside mine."

in the first poem ("From Hormone Imbalance to Death") within Juliet Cook's NEW chapbook, "REVOLTING" (very recently published by Cul-de-sac of Blood).

I'm sharing a few more photos of this chapbook, as well as this whole poem here.

Front cover - first page of poem - second page of poem - back cover.

You can acquire the whole chapbook (in conjunction with other chapbooks or by itself) from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or you can acquire it by itself directly from Cook.

(You can also see more photos and more details in this previous blog post HERE - https://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2024/11/my-new-poetry-chapbook-revolting-is-now.html)

Juliet Cook's NEW poetry chapbook, REVOLTING, is now available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

Juliet Cook is very excited about her NEW darkly delicious and creepily disconcerting 2024 poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING", published by and newly available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

It is available along with 3 other poetry chapbooks ("Blood Bath" by Christine Kanownik - "Friday the 13th" by Jonathan Minton - "watch for deer" by Michael Sikkema).

All 4 have interconnected cover art by Kayte Terry!

All 4 are newly available NOW!

All 4 can be purchased together in a bundle for only $28 (which includes shipping).

OR they can be purchased individually for $8 each (which includes shipping) OR in sets of 2 or 3!

They are available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD here! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Please support small presses and also keep in mind that poetry chapbooks could make uniquely delightful holiday gifts (or anytime gifts) for those who adore or are inspired by poetry!

(Cook also has some extra copies of her REVOLTING chapbook if anyone would like to purchase directly from her for the same price. Just ask. But she also recommends buying more than one from the uniquely wonderful small press that published them all.)

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When I disagree, you launch
into a vanishing act
until I change my mind
or make my own thoughts disappear,
but I have my own brain waves, brimming with mice

slithering out, descending limbs, disfigured stumps
transfigured into wings
with their own inflections.

The more you try to force me to see what you see,
the darker I will become until I am
saturated in the real me,
ascending into reverse abandonment.

an excerpt from Cook's poem "Thirteen Mice", which appears inside REVOLTING

NEW! Juliet Cook is darkly delighted to share a new poetry chapbook acceptance from Cul-De-Sac OF BLOOD! REVOLTING!

Darkly delighted and creepily thrilled to share that I have a new poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING" accepted by Cul-De-Sac of Blood, forthcoming this fall!