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V. Press publishes poetry and flash fiction that is very very
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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
10 Years of Publications – Revealing the real boss, meet N…& lots of thanks!
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Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2024!
Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
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Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
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October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2024!
Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
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Poetry, flash and our new book bundles!
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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
Tamar Yoseloff on Lauren Mason's Rust Canyon
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#poetry
#books
October 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
“[...]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
Tamar Yoseloff on Lauren Mason's Rust Canyon
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#poetry
#books
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
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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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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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...
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
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
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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
“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...
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
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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
“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...
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
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Owl was there,
ragged wings folded in,”
from Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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October 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
“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...
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
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#poetry
Glyn Maxwell on Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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#poetry
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
“[...] 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
Glyn Maxwell on Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason
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#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
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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...
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“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...
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...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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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@laurabesley.bsky.social
@sarahleavesley.bsky.social
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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
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
October 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“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
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”.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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...
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poetrysociety.org.uk/publications...
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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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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...
October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“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...
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!!!
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September 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2023 -- titles, prizes & more!!!
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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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Roy McFarlane on Palmer by R.M. Francis
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September 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“[...] 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/
Roy McFarlane on Palmer by R.M. Francis
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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
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#poetry #books #reading
September 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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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#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
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#poetry #writing #art #words #poetrycommunity #life #inspiration #writerscommunity #creativewriting #poets #writers #books
September 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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#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
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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
“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
but the pulse, oh lord, the pulse
enthuses.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/palmer.html
“I started to pray the day that grey cankered
ultrasound came back still and quiet.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
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ultrasound came back still and quiet.”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
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September 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“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
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
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the love of thin places. To touch
its stones is prayer, is momentary
[…]”
From Palmer by R.M. Francis
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September 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“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
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
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Sally Read on Palmer by R.M. Francis
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September 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
“[…] 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
Sally Read on Palmer by R.M. Francis
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“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
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
September 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“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
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
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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
September 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
“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
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
Celebrating 10 years of publications -- 2022!!!
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@hannahl1n.bsky.social &more!
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@hannahl1n.bsky.social &more!
September 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Celebrating 10 years of publications -- 2022!!!
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com
@hannahl1n.bsky.social &more!
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@hannahl1n.bsky.social &more!