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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

V. Press is v v delighted to share the National Poetry Day publication of My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social – a chapbook of poetry that is very visceral and very hopeful! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“[…] This is a fierce and compassionate collection of poems, one that explores women’s health, societal experience and survival. [...]” JP Seabright on My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“I’m just working differently. Like a toaster that makes tea or a kettle that gives compliments.” My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You won't want to miss our current Featured Publication - Wild Boar by @jennyhope.bsky.social from @vpresslit.bsky.social

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Leaden tiredness: my chest crushed by a felled tree or two, mind too weak to ask for help.” My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“I’m flailing like an animal who forgot how to make sounds and no one looks back, no one calls for me” My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“confessing to the person I love most feeling like I’m held together by masking tape” My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“[…] These poems are deeply moving and beautifully arranged and ultimately – in a world that so desperately needs it – hopeful.” Laura Besley on My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“the anger curling around my tendons my skin feeling over-touched or coarse like it’s covered in sand” My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“everything being a symptom not being believed” My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Their face was a charcoal drawing without any colour, empty spaces which taunted me. An outline of a person.” My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“You meet others outside the school gates, drawn together like animals sniffing out a prize but the prize is a mirage” My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An autumn update -- exciting news, reviews & coming soon! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @jennyhope.bsky.social @clairebooker.bsky.social @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social @bethosmond.bsky.social & others

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now in stock & available to pre-order: My Body is a Stranger by Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social – a chapbook of poetry that is very visceral and very hopeful! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

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Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

COVER REVEAL! My Body is a Stranger, my pamphlet with @vpresslit.bsky.social is available for pre-order! My Body is a Stranger is very visceral and very hopeful. Thanks to Laura Besley and JP Seabright for the endorsements. Pre-order: vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is... #poetsofbluesky

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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Day 26 of the #sealeychallenge. I was delighted to hear that @hannahl1n.bsky.social has a collection coming out next year, so today I’ve been rereading her superb pamphlet, ‘The Beautiful Open Sky’, which is published by @vpresslit.bsky.social.

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Now in stock & available to pre-order: Twenty Tides by Claire Booker @clairebooker.bsky.social – a chapbook of poetry that is very elemental and very pithy! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/twenty-tid...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“[…] make Rust Canyon an exhilarating read. This is eco-poetry at its most effective […] " Big thanks to London Grip for a stunning detailed review of Rust Canyon by Lauren Mason: londongrip.co.uk/2026/08/lond... Rust Canyon: vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo...

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My review of @scooterwriter.bsky.social Diane Simmons 'Bereft of Reason,' published by @vpresslit.bsky.social Recommended! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

V. Press is v v delighted to share the publication of Some Dark God by Cat Balaq – a chapbook of poetry that is very sacred and very profane! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“Such a dark, magnificent creation. I devoured the poems. Strident, compelling dispatches from the underworld, meticulously crafted. These poems will get under your skin, go straight for the heart.” Helen Mort on Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Here’s me reading from Hatchery. I will be reading @waterstones.bsky.social in Bristol on 8th July- www.waterstones.com/events/a-poe... @vpresslit.bsky.social #poemsaloud

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“Vicious as you are in your pyjamas, incontinent as the moon, you lie awake, stubbornly sleepish in your outer skin.[…]” From Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

V. v. excited to see Jenny Hope's V. Press collection, Wild Boar, SHORTLISTED in the INTERNATIONAL RUBERY BOOK AWARD 2026 (poetry & short fiction category)!!! Big congrats @jennyhope.bsky.social & all! Award: www.ruberybookaward.com/about-5 Wild Boar: vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/wild-boar....

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“He knows the best worms, how to gut the wood for grubs. Webbed feet to hold a mate tightly. […]” From Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Great to read the lovely review of Lauren Mason’s Rust Canyon in The Poetry Review! Rust Canyon: vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo... More on The Poetry Review from The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk here: poetrysociety.org.uk/publications...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“A black kimono – soul-thin drapes. See-through ache. […]” From Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“[…] her quick imagination moves through bleak, unnerving territory with a lightness of touch, reshaping the world [...] This is sharply observed, stirring writing.” John McCullough on Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“search for and enter her name black and still in a white space. the ith of it. the eerie ili lifts us. […]" From Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I am a neonatologist and a poet, this poem is from my debut collection with @vpresslit.bsky.social

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

📚 New Review 📚 Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq, out with @vpresslit.bsky.social on 3rd July. Review at victoriaspires.substack.com

An image of a hand holding the poetry pamphlet Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq. The image is surrounded by some text and a small circular image of the reviewer, Victoria Spires. The text contains the details of the review from Substack.

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“the nothing/formless/what he desires or silence/oil-mouth/musk/she once” From Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

V. v. excited to share publication of the new bound version of The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social – a flash fiction novella that is very raw and very real! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“I am the colour of sand, when sand is crushed to slutch. Ochre, yellow, brown, mottled and crosshatched, ground by years […]” From Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/some-dark-...

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

SO GOOD! 💙

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Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thrilled to get my hands on an advance copy of Cat Balaq’s new book from @vpresslit.bsky.social. Some collections sing, this one dances. Vital, dark and ultimately life-affirming, it's out 3rd July.

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“[…] a family epic in flash form, masterfully and movingly distilled, both devastating and hopeful.” Kathy Fish on The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“Mammy is using that shiny voice when everything sounds lovely but it isn’t.” from The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

“Nuala doesn’t think she has ever heard Mammy laugh like that. This laugh is beautiful, like fairy whispers.” from The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“The constable says it’s bad news. And you think, was there ever any other kind? Not in this family.” from The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“Funny, clever, warm and sad, this is a beautiful book.” Nuala O’Connor on The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“Nuala wants to fix things even though Mammy says there’s no fixing Da.” from The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

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Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Lovely to be on here with my pal @downith.bsky.social — if she’d not been silly & moved back to Canada, she would have been round my house for lunch today with lots of other lovely people celebrating 🥲

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Review news & hot new titles! V. Press summer news & highlights! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @downith.bsky.social @bethosmond.bsky.social @scooterwriter.bsky.social

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V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“She tells Mammy Sister Angelique is pure of heart and Mammy says she’ll give Nuala pure of heart if she doesn’t eat her cabbage.” from The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

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