Happy October! What a wonderful month to buy a poetry chapbook!

 I am sharing three new mini reviews I discovered today of three different poetry chapbooks by Juliet Cook/me (each of which I still happen to have a few copies available for sale in the Blood Pudding Press shop, in case anyone would like to acquire one for October, Fall, or Halloween).

"I love this book. It’s completely in Juliet Cooks style. You could tell that she had a blast writing this book." Davide Nixon

about the chapbook "Red Flames Burning Out" (Grey Book Press, 2023)

"This is a crazy collection of poetry. If you know anything about Juliet Cook’s style or aesthetic then you’ll know that it’s dolls, vaginas (yonic), murder, birds, and then David Lynch. All of this is expressed through her poetry, and then there is a hint of comfort, which you should want in poetry. Hopefully this review is vague enough that it makes the book sound interesting. I really loved this book." Davide Nixon

about the chapbook "Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023)

"Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for being you, Juliet. I love it." Suzanne Grazyna

about the chapbook "REVOLTING" (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024)

Links to these three chapbooks appear below. 

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Red Flames Burning Out - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/red-flames-burning-out-poetry-chapbook

Contorted Doom Conveyor - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/contorted-doom-conveyor-poetry-chapbook

REVOLTING - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/revolting-poetry-chapbook-by-juliet-cook

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

NEW Review of the newest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, POISON MOONLIGHT by Jason O'Toole!

The newest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "POISON MOONLIGHT" by Jason O'Toole has received a new little 5 star review by Tom Zampino via the Blood Pudding Press shop.

"Excellent, thought-provoking poems written by one of America’s quickly rising poets. A must buy!"

Find out more about "POISON MOONLIGHT" and acquire your own copy in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

A NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones"!

Thank you to Latif Askia Ba for this wonderful review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones" by john comptom

"john compton's most recent chapbook, “i saw god cooking children / paint their bones,” produced and published beautifully by Blood Pudding Press, is a testament to love—not the trite and sappy kind, but the kind “rooted in piss and shit” as the Zen saying goes.

Captured in Compton’s (perpetually) turning phrases, peppered by his playful and refreshingly rare diction—catastrophe flowers across these pages, and though they are few, they manage to create an unignorable echo, which rattles furiously in the mind by the end of the collection.

It’s not really my place to read into things, but I’m going to anyway. It seems that the source of this powerful resonance is Compton’s mother, a reoccurring character throughout the book, who (being “plagued / by a psychotic / god”) had a contentious relationship with the poet, and instead of letting this relationship live in a slew of depressing word salads, Compton sets up a sort of dialectic with the pain of being his mother’s “faggot son.”

The poet, rejecting this identity, re-educates us (and corrects his mother) in his sexual vignettes like “fellation” or “the memory of seeing my first uncut penis.”

Even in a poem named “the israeli war,” where you expect an account of pure misery, Compton refuses this from us. Instead, his description is tender: “an explosion of wings.” And so, in this very way, he takes the words and deeds of his mother and bends them around his lines into gentle, ornate lamentations.

Reading “i saw god painting children…” felt like I was eavesdropping on an intimate conversation between a mother and her son, and even if their relationship was marked by suffering, I could still hear the stubborn cadence of love…

or maybe it was just me breathing too loudly. Either way, you can buy this chapbook and other masterly constructed chapbooks at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress