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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 1d

“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...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 3d

“[...] 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

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 4d

“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...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 6d

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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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 8d

“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

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 8d

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-...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 10d

“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...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 21d

Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2023 -- titles, prizes & more!!!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 26d

“[...] 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/

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 27d

V. Press is v v delighted to share the publication of Palmer by R.M. Francis – a chapbook of poetry that is very wandering and very wondering!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com
#poetry #books #reading

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 27d

Now in stock & available to pre-order – Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason – a poetry chapbook that is very ecological and very unflinching!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...
#poetry #writing #art #words #poetrycommunity #life #inspiration #writerscommunity #creativewriting #poets #writers #books

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 29d

“We might not raze like young lovers now
but the pulse, oh lord, the pulse
enthuses.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html

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Sarah James/Leavesley @sarahleavesley.bsky.social · Sep 14

A hectic but lovely week – new Substack ‘reedlike: whispering through wind & water’ at https://moresarah.substack.com/ & pre-orders open at https://indigodreamspublishing.com/sarah-james for my new collection Darling Blue!!! DM or email me for reviews, readings, book swaps etc.

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 13

“I started to pray the day that grey cankered
ultrasound came back still and quiet.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 12

“deep in man,
the love of thin places. To touch
its stones is prayer, is momentary
[…]”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 10

“[…] Personal yet ambitious in its spiritual reach, this poetry captivates the reader with its close attention to detail and language. […] a compelling poetic experience.”
Sally Read on Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 7

“Reflecting on my rot:
the urge to shift stones to bread.
Instead, I light wicks,
watching flame flicker on dust
settling down to cold, pale tiles.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 6

“We take the quad (a scholar’s path) –
where firethorn buffets winged choristers –
and taste God’s kiss
in the damp of a discarded mitten.
She says, iss bin theya for days, dad,”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html

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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · Sep 5

So proud to have brought this pamphlet out with the wonderful @vpresslit.bsky.social alongside such wonderful poets. Cheering all of their books on too.

V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 5

Celebrating 10 years of publications -- 2022!!!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com
@hannahl1n.bsky.social &more!

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks, Hannah -- v. v. delighted to have yours among them!

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 5

Celebrating 10 years of publications -- 2022!!!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com
@hannahl1n.bsky.social &more!

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 5

Celebrating 10 years of publications -- 2022!!!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 3

“Morning before birth,
almost-parents circling
mud paths of Green Pool.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html
#poetry #books

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Sep 1

“Oblique, delicate prayer. Wild,
blind prayer – spare space
in this week’s rosary. Sapphira
says there’s a decade knotted
around the noose for my sin.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · Aug 27

Now in stock & available to pre-order – Palmer by R.M. Francis – a poetry chapbook that is very wandering and very wondering!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html

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