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

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

“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

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.

“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

“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

“[…] 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

“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

“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

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.

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

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

“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

“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

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

"[…] Reed expertly replicates the feeling of child-like wonder through harmless astonishment and innocent memories which seamlessly blend into unfamiliarity." Isobel Dillon for @PoetryBookSoc: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/... Dreaming Backward: vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/dreaming-b...

A privilege and a career highlight to have (twice) been published by V. Press. Working with Sarah Leavesley was incredibly rewarding, and I'm still grateful for her generosity of spirit and her perceptive editorial support. Ten years is an amazing achievement. Hurrah for V. Press! 🍾🙌🎉

10 Years of Publications – celebrating 2021!!! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social l‬ & others!

My review of 'sum of her PARTS' by @laurabesley.bsky.social published by @vpresslit.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

"This is a story of a woman growing into herself, who is more than the sum of her parts, a woman who has something important to say." I'm absolutely thrilled with this review of 'sum of her PARTS' #published by @vpresslit.bsky.social 💜 #amwriting #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #microfiction

Now in stock & available to pre-order Wild Boar by Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social -- a collection of poems that are very visceral and very feminist! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

Tomorrow we unveil a brand new Featured Publication. In the meantime, many thanks to Nikki Robson and @vpresslit.bsky.social – we have loved hosting The Price of Happiness! atriumpoetry.com

In search of some summer reading? Why not try our current Featured Publication - The Price of Happiness by Nikki Robson @vpresslit.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/05/04/f...