Micro-Chap eBooks 2024-5

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If you missed our 2024-5 run of poetry and prose micro-chapbooks, here they are in PDF format!

DEO MITHRAE

but far off northwards at
the bleeding edge of this world,
here there are

meadow pipits all around,
peeping a land alive

Deo Mithrae responds intensively to the Temple of Mithras at Carrawburgh, as well as the remains of the nearby Coventina’s Well, fused with a movement through what little we know of Mithraic initiation grades. Deo Mithrae plays with human landscapes, archaeologies of hurt, and imagined ancient voices – from the human to the otherworldly, with a deeply experimental and ludic voice.

Bruce Rimell is a visual artist and poet, whose work explores lost human voices in ancient landscapes, gay/Queer sexual dynamics, and living with ADHD in a neuronormative world. His work sits far from the zeitgeist: the tone, unconventional rhythmic delivery and surreal thematics of his oeuvre often reflect this. Mostly self-published, his poetry is often adorned with his own visually engaging artworks: ‘Deo Mithrae’ is his first conventionally published work.

SKIN THE RABBIT

Skin the Rabbit by Susie Wilson is a micro-chapbook about the strangeness of growing up strange. These poems explore queerness, neurodiversity and the rural landscape with a deft and canny eye. They are intense, moving and bloody. By turns tender and unsettling.

Skin The Rabbit was released in Spring 2025 as a Lyra Poetry Festival / Free Verse Fair 2025 exclusive. Just a handful of copies remain. If you missed these events, this is your only chance to get a hard copy.

Disabled Poets Prize 2024 winner Susie Wilson is a Scottish auDHD writer living in Sheffield, published in magazines and journals such as Propel, Northern Gravy, Black Bough and Envoi, together with a medium-price biscuit box of competition anthologies. Her pamphlet from Verve Poetry Press, Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed, deals with living with stage 4 melanoma and the cutting-edge science used to treat it. Please say hello @concordmoose

SPINDRIFT

your skin will be wet and cold. you will feel kind.
it will be morning and dawn will leak north.
you will sleep well. take care. lie in.
forget about eating cheese.

— Lullabye for Fog

Spindrift by Molly Knox moves through the confessional and the egological. Nature, memory, home and homecoming, intertwine in this set of short poems. Saltmarshes feel for star systems, seals are bouyant surgeons, and an overcast august shrugs off rolling council houses. Tender and deftly woven, these poems are rich with image and feeling.

Molly Knox is a recent MA Ethnomusicology graduate from Durham University. She is a queer Newcastle based poet, facilitator, theatre-maker and arts researcher, who grew up in North Lanarkshire. Their recent work can be found in Magma 88, The Selkie, Carmen et Error, and Briefly Zine.

 

PILGRIMER

Cairn
Not much left of the scrimshaw now, carried off in time
our names, indecent shapes, written in sand, lost in ebb
and weathering salt that grounded the land, held it
back and safe. All up the coast we held our own and
adopted, the cairns keeping watch over all our dead
and living still and tending.

A symbolic character, like a forgotten member of the Major Arcana, the Pilgrimer appears wandering a land where standing stones can become a way to sell spaces in a car park and where pubs can become ritualistic temples. In this collection the Pilgrimer walks the land looking to reconcile 21st century Britain with its ancient and mythical past.

Pilgrimer is part of our micro-chapbook series where we design, print & make limited edition a6 chapbooks. Its run is limited to 35 copies.

Joe Pickard, born and raised in York, now works as an editor for a magazine based in London. He has had writing published in or forthcoming in The Dawntreader, Erato, Confluence, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of Pulp Poets Press, which is always looking for submissions.