V. v. excited to get a new print run of Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason – a poetry chapbook that is very ecological and very unflinching! Get one while you can! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...

New print run klaxon – only published the start of May & already on a new print run! Get your copy of Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social while you can! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h... (And hear her read from it on Sunday: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hatchery-l... )

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hatchery-l... With: @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social @vpresslit.bsky.social @sarahraybould.bsky.social @eleanorholmes.bsky.social

I'm delighted to be among the guest readers at the online launch of Beth Osmond's stunning new @vpresslit.bsky.social pamphlet, 'Hatchery', on Sunday 17th May. 📖🪺🩵 Do join us! Link below. ⬇️

A link that works hopefully… In The Book Bag this week is @bethosmond.bsky.social debut pamphlet from @vpresslit.bsky.social ‘Grab this book with both hands…’ Link here shorturl.at/BzVqe Plus all the usual news, recaps, shoutouts and the playlist.

Now in stock and available to pre-order, Some Dark God by Cat Balaq – a chapbook of poetry that is very sacred and very profane! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

@bethosmond.bsky.social @vpresslit.bsky.social Dear Elizabeth ~ I have posted a review of your poetry pamphlet up on my poetry blog ~ screenshot below ~ best wishes ~ Jim PS A poem a day for ten years with one million page views of my blog … baitthelines.blogspot.com

A big thank you to R. M. Francis and @vpresslit.bsky.social for letting us host Palmer as our March-April Featured Publication. atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/01/f...

“[…] these poems are alternately magical and pragmatic, interrogative yet compassionate, brimming with humanity and intelligence.” Sarah Doyle on Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

My debut chapbook available to buy now. #poetsonbluesky #poemsabout

“When I leave the NICU, parts of it trail me, residue on a wild swimmer, mermaid’s tresses wrapped around my ankles. Alarms ring in my ears whilst I stuff laundry into the machine.” From Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

Absolutely thrilled to publish my first chapbook today. The poetry explores neonatal care including the fascinating historical background and the challenges and joys of modern medicine caring for the most vulnerable patients. Online launch 17 May.

V. Press is v v delighted to share the publication of Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social – a chapbook of poetry that is very visceral and very vibrant! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

“I talk to the baby in the incubator. I hold his body contained, […] I tell him we all once were stars, that the forests need our care.” From Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

Exciting!

Now in stock and available to pre-order, Bereft of Reason by Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social – a novella-in-flash that is very compelling and very shocking! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/bereft-of-...

Oh this is so exciting!!

“difficult doctors don’t care about their patients / they are filling up hospitals and GP practices with their difficult bodies” From Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

Ready with the @vpresslit.bsky.social stand at Free Verse in London -- complete with advance copies of Hatchery, Spice of Life Poetry Pots & some freebies!

Many thanks to @bethosmond.bsky.social for gifting me this beautifully wrapped copy of 'Hatchery' @vpresslit.bsky.social. A privilege to write feedback for an early manuscript, and to later provide an endorsement. 10/10 for excellent sticker/postcard merch and tissue paper colour coordination! 👌🩵🪺

Getting ready to walk pre-orders of Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social to the post. Looking perfect in the spring light today, we can’t wait to see them in the hands of readers now!

“Stunning imagery and metaphor stitched throughout in myth […] She splices medical expertise and tantalising storytelling with human kindness.” Helen Sheppard on Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

Preterm babies were first offered care in Victorian side shows. They were first shown in the UK in 1897 at Earl’s Court. Find out more in my chapbook Hatchery from @vpresslit.bsky.social, published on 1 May and available to pre order vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h... #poetsonbluesky

“The nappies reach the armpits of the smallest; straps fasten around their chests.” From The Tiny Nappy in Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

“Then you put your laptop safely in the fridge called the consultant Mum put a kiss at the end of the handover text” From Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

“Under the ventilator’s spell, watch the tiny chest rise and fall into the rhythm of it, the physics of it, a brief calm.” From Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

On April 15th 1802, Dorothy Wordsworth recorded the daffodil encounter that inspired her brother's famous poem. I reworked that journal entry to draw out its extraordinary harmonics, in my @vpresslit.bsky.social pamphlet of DW collage poems. The second image highlights DW's gift for music and rhyme.

Still loving our current Featured Publication - Palmer by R.M. Francis @vpresslit.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/01/f...

Delighted to share V. Press’s latest news, including new titles and the Poetry Society Free Verse poetry book fair! Check it out here: vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @handle.invalid @elenibrooks.bsky.social @bethosmond.bsky.social

Oof, gorgeous cover! 🪺 Congratulations to @bethosmond.bsky.social on her excellent new pamphlet, 'Hatchery', available to preorder from @vpresslit.bsky.social. It was a privilege to provide professional feedback on an early manuscript, and I was very glad to write an endorsement too. Go Beth! 👏🥳🎉

Now in stock and available to pre-order, Hatchery by Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social – a chapbook of poetry that is very visceral and very vibrant! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.h...

V. Press is v v delighted to share the publication of grown girl by Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social – a chapbook of poetry that is very raw and very hopeful! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

“I have watched friends lose each other in piles of dirty dishes, sinking under unsaid thoughts.” from grown girl by Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/grown-girl...

“On the other side of the city is a girl with the same body as me, and we are both wearing our own clothes.” from grown girl by Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/grown-girl...

Still loving our current Featured Publication - Palmer by R. M. Francis @vpresslit.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/01/f...

“I buy my mother Lego daffodils because I don’t want children. It is easier to gift a box of unassembled pieces […]” from grown girl by Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/grown-girl...

In honour of #worldpoetryday, I thought I’d share one of the beautiful poems that @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social read at my book launch last night. ‘Sea Gooseberries’ is from her pamphlet ‘(m)othersongs’, available from @vpresslit.bsky.social

“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