“Eleni is clever, subtly witty and honest to no fault. When poetry is this relatable, it reminds you how sharing your experiences can make another feel understood[...]Very powerful poetry.” Jemima Hughes on Eleni Brooks' grown girl @elenibrooks.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/grown-girl...

“You avoid my eye on the high street; my brother pulls me into a toyshop, walks me round a graveyard of us, oblivious.” from grown girl by Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/grown-girl...

“Today, you showed the sun parts of yourself that he had never seen before: soft, raw and cool.” from grown girl by Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/grown-girl...

I’m absolutely delighted that the brilliant @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social will be the guest reader at my online launch of ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ on Friday 20 March (link to book in my bio). I’ve longed admired Sarah’s poetry and am very much looking forward to hearing her read on the night.

@poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social ‘s latest pamphlet, the deeply moving ‘(m)othersongs’, is available to buy from @vpresslit.bsky.social

“You have been asleep for two hours when a kangaroo pouch of pain kicks your uterus awake. You stay still, invisible, but the stopwatch has clicked;” from grown girl by Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/grown-girl...

Springing into London Book Fair, new titles, events & review news vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @elenibrooks.bsky.social @jennyhope.bsky.social

Happy birthday to my NIF ‘An Inheritance’, published in Feb 2020 & shortlisted in The Saboteur Awards. Thrilled that @vpresslit.bsky.social will be publishing my latest NIF too! ‘Bereft of Reason’ will be out later this year 😊

Join V. Press’s editor for her Darling Blue Spring Launch at Script Haven @scripthavenltd.bsky.social in Worcester next Sat, 28 Feb!!! Daytime Poet/Publisher in Residence with evening reading & open mic Details: www.sarah-james.co.uk?page_id=184 & fb.me/e/6EXr4EYPe

Now in stock and available for pre-order, ‘grown girl’ by Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social, winner of the V. Press Prize for Poetry 2025-26 – a chapbook of poetry that is very raw and very hopeful. vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/grown-girl...

It was such a treat to hear the wonderful @jennyhope.bsky.social read from her new collection ‘Wild Boar’ last night - her poems are powerful, dark, and visceral. @vpresslit.bsky.social

“Hope writes with a green pen [...] The language is unflinching, raw, and moving as she journeys through the seasons, linking the changes and evolution to those often felt by women as they navigate their lives.” Pat Edwards, London Grip: londongrip.co.uk/2026/02/lond... @jennyhope.bsky.social

“Here, the richness of soil and words fill the mouth, and we discover a delicious blurring of human, animal and natural worlds. Our ‘inner raw’ secrets are unlocked while the moon looks on.” Claire Walker on Wild Boar by @jennyhope.bsky.social sky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

V. Press is v. v. delighted to announce the publication of Wild Boar by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social, a poetry collection that is very visceral and very feminist. vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

“Oh, we’re smitten. We watch you smash up puddles, squeeze out factories and shimmy the Balti Belt.” From ‘Birmingham Moon’ in ‘Wild Boar’ by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

“Come – I think you will like it here. Follow me. Let the forest open herself to you, jaw-to-jaw.” From ‘A night with the forest’ in ‘Wild Boar’ by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

“Hawthorn flowers are on the turn, yet their spent-sex-scent fills her air. She’s silent. Slack-bellied.” From ‘Vixen’ in ‘Wild Boar’ by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

“I dreamt my lover was a rat. I felt his sharp tongue on my breast, and let him steal my breath.” From ‘Song of owls’ in ‘Wild Boar’ by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

"[...] Poems that expand, take up space, howl, cackle and buck with the feel of changing seasons. A mesmerising collection.” Ruth Stacey on ‘Wild Boar by @jennyhope.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

“It’s the stray cat that climbs into your head, an old friend who, when passing the area, decides to call in to taste the sugar of your hospitality. […]” From ‘On talking to myself’ in ‘Wild Boar’ by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

“You call me Blame – a crooked-turn, not-fitting: The bus is late – blame. Love is lost – blame. The cow won’t milk – blinkered – bully – blame.” From ‘Many words for Witch ’ in ‘Wild Boar’ by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

“I can see clearly here. This place of almost-never- sleep. Soil is rich, fills my mouth, holds my silence.” From ‘The unbirthing’ in ‘Wild Boar’ by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

Am very excited to share that my new historical novella-in-flash ‘Bereft of Reason’ will be published by V.Press in 2026!

I am very excited to share that my first poetry pamphlet is being published in 2026 with @vpresslit.bsky.social #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/our-poets....

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!!! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/seas... @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...

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

10 Years of publications -- celebrating 2025! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @laurabesley.bsky.social & more!

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! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

JOIN US for the FREE launch of Darling Blue with Worcestershire Poetry Society Stanza Guest Poets at Droitwich Library on Sat, 22 Nov 2025 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darling-blue-launch-with-worcestershire-poetry-society-stanza-guest-poets-tickets-1832358707219?aff=oddtdtcreator #poetry fun

Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2024! Poetry, flash and our new book bundles! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

“[...]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 vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo... #poetry #books

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)

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! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

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...

“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...

“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...

“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...

“[...] 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

“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...

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

“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

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-...

“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...

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

“[...] 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/

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