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V. Press
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V. Press publishes poetry and flash fiction that is very very
run by @sarahleavesley.bsky.social
https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/
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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!
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10 Years of Publications – Revealing the real boss, meet N…& lots of thanks!
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November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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10 Years of Publications – Revealing the real boss, meet N…& lots of thanks!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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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
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
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Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2024!
Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
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October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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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
October 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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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
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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.
Sea Gooseberries by Sarah Doyle The tideline wears you like a broken necklace, sun-glittered gems strewn along its foamy contours. Plump glass marbles: stranded, stilled, alien as fallen moons. How vulnerable you seem in your naked transparency, insides on show, sand refracted through the bright lenses of your bodies. Displaced pearls sent airwards, the vagaries of navigation exiling you beyond the salt-safety of submergence. Your exposure is exquisite, for all its tragedy. You look to me like I imagine ovaries might when they outlive their use – flawless crystal ornaments, slow-fired and vestigial in death. Half gentle, half frantic, I cradle your sparkling ovoids in my palms, return you to your fold of sea: fearful you have already atrophied in the late-summer glare, hoping furiously time has not run out for you as it has for me.   (c) Sarah Doyle
October 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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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
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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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October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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“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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October 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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“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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October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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“I was lain on the canyon rim.
Owl was there,
ragged wings folded in,”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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October 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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“[...] 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
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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“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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October 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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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
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“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
October 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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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
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“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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October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2023 -- titles, prizes & more!!!
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September 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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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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September 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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!
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#poetry #books #reading
September 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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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
September 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“We might not raze like young lovers now
but the pulse, oh lord, the pulse
enthuses.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
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September 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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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.
September 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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“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
September 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM