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V. Press publishes poetry and flash fiction that is very very
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A wonderful surprise to see that, due to recent interest and demand, my @vpresslit.bsky.social pamphlet '(m)othersongs' has just gone to a fourth print run – two years after publication! Get 'em while they're hot... ❤️🔥🍂❤️🔥
V. v. excited to have another new print run of @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social’s beautiful (m)othersongs in time for Christmas -- It’s rare to do a new run 2 years after publication & this may well be the last, so get a copy while you still can! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/mothersong...
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A wonderful surprise to see that, due to recent interest and demand, my @vpresslit.bsky.social pamphlet '(m)othersongs' has just gone to a fourth print run – two years after publication! Get 'em while they're hot... ❤️🔥🍂❤️🔥
The very very warmest of Seasonal Greetings & thanks to all our readers, writers and supporters, plus news of our final anniversary-year celebration!!!
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December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The very very warmest of Seasonal Greetings & thanks to all our readers, writers and supporters, plus news of our final anniversary-year celebration!!!
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@jennyhope.bsky.social
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@jennyhope.bsky.social
V. v. excited to have another new print run of @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social’s beautiful (m)othersongs in time for Christmas -- It’s rare to do a new run 2 years after publication & this may well be the last, so get a copy while you still can! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/mothersong...
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
V. v. excited to have another new print run of @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social’s beautiful (m)othersongs in time for Christmas -- It’s rare to do a new run 2 years after publication & this may well be the last, so get a copy while you still can! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/mothersong...
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It was an absolute thrill to have my pamphlet 'Sum of her PARTS' published by @vpresslit.bsky.social 💜 Sarah is wonderful to work with & publishes such quality books. And that cover...! 💜💜 Please do check out the V. Press catalogue.
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
10 Years of publications -- celebrating 2025!
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& more!
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@laurabesley.bsky.social
& more!
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
It was an absolute thrill to have my pamphlet 'Sum of her PARTS' published by @vpresslit.bsky.social 💜 Sarah is wonderful to work with & publishes such quality books. And that cover...! 💜💜 Please do check out the V. Press catalogue.
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
10 Years of publications -- celebrating 2025!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com
@laurabesley.bsky.social
& more!
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@laurabesley.bsky.social
& more!
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
10 Years of publications -- celebrating 2025!
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@laurabesley.bsky.social
& more!
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@laurabesley.bsky.social
& more!
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My NIF ‘An Inheritance’ was published by V.Press in 2020. There’s just a few copies left (available from V.Press or my website). You might want to check out all their other publications too!
10 Years of Publications – Revealing the real boss, meet N…& lots of thanks!
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November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My NIF ‘An Inheritance’ was published by V.Press in 2020. There’s just a few copies left (available from V.Press or my website). You might want to check out all their other publications too!
10 Years of Publications – Revealing the real boss, meet N…& lots of thanks!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
10 Years of Publications – Revealing the real boss, meet N…& lots of thanks!
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JOIN US for the FREE launch of Darling Blue with Worcestershire Poetry Society Stanza Guest Poets at Droitwich Library on Sat, 22 Nov 2025
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#poetry fun
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#poetry fun
Darling Blue launch with Worcestershire Poetry Society Stanza Guest Poets
Join us for the exciting launch of Darling Blue with special guest poets from the Worcestershire Poetry Society Stanza!
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November 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
JOIN US for the FREE launch of Darling Blue with Worcestershire Poetry Society Stanza Guest Poets at Droitwich Library on Sat, 22 Nov 2025
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#poetry fun
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#poetry fun
Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2024!
Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
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Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
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October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2024!
Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com
Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
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“[...]These poems are diamond-like in their brilliance and multifaceted reflections, but they are also sharp and tough.[...]”
Tamar Yoseloff on Lauren Mason's Rust Canyon
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#poetry
#books
Tamar Yoseloff on Lauren Mason's Rust Canyon
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#poetry
#books
October 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
“[...]These poems are diamond-like in their brilliance and multifaceted reflections, but they are also sharp and tough.[...]”
Tamar Yoseloff on Lauren Mason's Rust Canyon
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#poetry
#books
Tamar Yoseloff on Lauren Mason's Rust Canyon
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#poetry
#books
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Big thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for this wonderful review of Darling Blue..just a week till publication now and Droitwich launch a month today!!! 🎉🎉🎉 (More info here: sarah-james.co.uk/?page_id=17191)
October 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Big thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for this wonderful review of Darling Blue..just a week till publication now and Droitwich launch a month today!!! 🎉🎉🎉 (More info here: sarah-james.co.uk/?page_id=17191)
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For #WorldMenopauseDay: my poem 'Sea Gooseberries', which was highly commended in the 2022 Ginkgo Prize and is included in my V. Press pamphlet '(m)othersongs'. The poem merges ecological fragility with body crisis, and was inspired by witnessing a mass beaching in Norfolk.
October 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
For #WorldMenopauseDay: my poem 'Sea Gooseberries', which was highly commended in the 2022 Ginkgo Prize and is included in my V. Press pamphlet '(m)othersongs'. The poem merges ecological fragility with body crisis, and was inspired by witnessing a mass beaching in Norfolk.
V. Press is v. v. delighted to share the publication of Rust Mason by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions, a chapbook of poems that are very ecological and very unflinching!
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October 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
V. Press is v. v. delighted to share the publication of Rust Mason by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions, a chapbook of poems that are very ecological and very unflinching!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com
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All the ways I couldn’t leave
led here: a country of sand between us
and still I draw you into every scene –
a sunspot, a hot bright star.”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
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led here: a country of sand between us
and still I draw you into every scene –
a sunspot, a hot bright star.”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
All the ways I couldn’t leave
led here: a country of sand between us
and still I draw you into every scene –
a sunspot, a hot bright star.”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
led here: a country of sand between us
and still I draw you into every scene –
a sunspot, a hot bright star.”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
“each afternoon the hoverflies
hang like apostrophes
between the brackets
of sun and moon”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
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hang like apostrophes
between the brackets
of sun and moon”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
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October 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“each afternoon the hoverflies
hang like apostrophes
between the brackets
of sun and moon”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
hang like apostrophes
between the brackets
of sun and moon”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
“Ʌ
ask mother who she’d be
without you
father who you’d be without him”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
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ask mother who she’d be
without you
father who you’d be without him”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
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October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
“Ʌ
ask mother who she’d be
without you
father who you’d be without him”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
ask mother who she’d be
without you
father who you’d be without him”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
“I was lain on the canyon rim.
Owl was there,
ragged wings folded in,”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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Owl was there,
ragged wings folded in,”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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October 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
“I was lain on the canyon rim.
Owl was there,
ragged wings folded in,”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
Owl was there,
ragged wings folded in,”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
“[...] the powerful compaction of the style makes it at once a vast landscape and a trembling domestic space. [...] This is a powerful, plangent and deeply moving collection.”
Glyn Maxwell on Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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#poetry
Glyn Maxwell on Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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#poetry
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
“[...] the powerful compaction of the style makes it at once a vast landscape and a trembling domestic space. [...] This is a powerful, plangent and deeply moving collection.”
Glyn Maxwell on Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
#poetry
Glyn Maxwell on Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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#poetry
“I am too white in this place,
I stick in its throat
like a flag splits the earth.
My pulse, fluttering.”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
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I stick in its throat
like a flag splits the earth.
My pulse, fluttering.”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“I am too white in this place,
I stick in its throat
like a flag splits the earth.
My pulse, fluttering.”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
I stick in its throat
like a flag splits the earth.
My pulse, fluttering.”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason @abstract_ions
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
Lots of news -- including Substack and editor news, and a round-up of this year's V. Press Prize for Poetry, reviews, new releases, events and coming soon...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Lots of news -- including Substack and editor news, and a round-up of this year's V. Press Prize for Poetry, reviews, new releases, events and coming soon...
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com
@laurabesley.bsky.social
@sarahleavesley.bsky.social
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@laurabesley.bsky.social
@sarahleavesley.bsky.social
“here I am a drop of amber
hung from linked silver
itself a drop of sap […]”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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#poetry #books #eco #nature
hung from linked silver
itself a drop of sap […]”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
#poetry #books #eco #nature
October 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“here I am a drop of amber
hung from linked silver
itself a drop of sap […]”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
#poetry #books #eco #nature
hung from linked silver
itself a drop of sap […]”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
#poetry #books #eco #nature
V. v. delighted to see Nikki Robson’s The Price of Happiness reviewed in The Poetry Review. Reviewer Godelieve de Bree picks up on her “attuned sense of the symbolic” and the pamphlet’s “discerning grip on implication”.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
V. v. delighted to see Nikki Robson’s The Price of Happiness reviewed in The Poetry Review. Reviewer Godelieve de Bree picks up on her “attuned sense of the symbolic” and the pamphlet’s “discerning grip on implication”.
poetrysociety.org.uk/publications...
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-price-...
poetrysociety.org.uk/publications...
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-price-...
“Call toward the haloed slit
where in-falling walls almost touch, where sky plays a trick,
tips itself vertical; there is no up or down, just
a whisper, hushing itself”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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where in-falling walls almost touch, where sky plays a trick,
tips itself vertical; there is no up or down, just
a whisper, hushing itself”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“Call toward the haloed slit
where in-falling walls almost touch, where sky plays a trick,
tips itself vertical; there is no up or down, just
a whisper, hushing itself”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
where in-falling walls almost touch, where sky plays a trick,
tips itself vertical; there is no up or down, just
a whisper, hushing itself”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2023 -- titles, prizes & more!!!
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September 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2023 -- titles, prizes & more!!!
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“[...] His poems are burning votive candles to sacred spaces and experiences while wearing the vestments of humanity; the body, attention, parenthood. [...]”
Roy McFarlane on Palmer by R.M. Francis
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Roy McFarlane on Palmer by R.M. Francis
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September 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“[...] His poems are burning votive candles to sacred spaces and experiences while wearing the vestments of humanity; the body, attention, parenthood. [...]”
Roy McFarlane on Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html/
Roy McFarlane on Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html/