Cover art for Feral issue 24. A woodland scene with a mirror at the center
The MIRROR issue from @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social is live!
Thanks to all our wonderful contributors!!
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Rows of angled, mirrored surfaces frame a distant landscape of hills
Wildlings! Submissions for @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social's MIRROR issue close on November 30th. Don't miss out. Send us your poetry, your art. The time to reflect is NOW!
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A construction of angled mirrors with a a view of distant hills
Mirror, mirror, on the wall - who is about to submit to @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social ?
Send us your poetry, send us your art, for the MIRROR issue!We're open until November 30!!
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Wildlings, we had so much fun at last week's launch for Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell, with guests Dean Rhetoric and Kate Garrett. Check out the video!
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A structure consisting of a series of angled mirror cells. Between the upper and lower sections, a view of hills at sunset.
Wildlings, @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social is OPEN! Send us your submissions for the MIRROR issue from now until the end of November. Send us your poetry, send us your art. We can't wait to see what you've got. For guidelines and to submit, go here:
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Join us on Wednesday October 29th @ 7 pm GMT on zoom
Headshot of Zoe Mitchell, a smiling white woman with shoulder length blonde hair, wearing a cream-colored hoodie "Zoe Mitchell has a PhD in Creative Writing. Her second collection, Untold Fortunes, considers the figure of the witch in history and mythology and how this relates to the female experience."
Headshot of Dean Rhetoric, a white man with dark hair and beard, wearing a blue shirt. He is looking off, pensively, to his right. "Dean Rhetoric is a poet currently living in Manchester. His debut full-length collection, Foundry Songs, was highly commended in the Forward Prizes."
Headshot of Kate Garrett, a white woman with long dark hair. Their head is tilted to the right and they are smiling wistfully. "Kate Garrett (she/they) is a neurodivergent writer with witchy ways, and a folklore, history, and horror obsession. Their work can be found online and in print - including their pamphlet To Feed My Woodland Bones, published by Animal Heart Press in 2019."
Wildlings, we'd love you to join us tomorrow evening, Wednesday 29 October @ 7pm GMT, to celebrate the launch of Zoe Mitchell's Untold Fortunes. Sign up here to get the zoom link: forms.gle/Vo7BhGt5YH5f...
Witches, bats, and the cover of Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Wednesday 29 October, 7 pm GMT Join us on zoom for an evening of spooky poetry to celebrate the publication of Untold Fortunes
Meet the guest poets Kate Garrett's poems are a doorway into a world of strangeness and magic that shimmers with the possibility of something just beyond the human eye." - Steve Nash
!["Dean Rhetoric's poetry shakes things up. The phrase-making of [his collections] Foundry Songs is visceral and passionate, forging from trauma and poverty a pulsing shield of anger." John McCullough](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uenpvfrryp63fghm6lwyrohq/bafkreif4aoeh7bpphhafyuzd4ulvdjvjvesskn6jtul4qk2i7nasiyrp24)
"Dean Rhetoric's poetry shakes things up. The phrase-making of [his collections] Foundry Songs is visceral and passionate, forging from trauma and poverty a pulsing shield of anger." John McCullough
Zoe Mitchell "With scintillating lyricism and incisive wit, Untold Fortunes pivots the ancient European trope of the witch to face itself in a moon mirror." Dr. Naomi Foyle
Wildlings! We'd love to see you, Wednesday at 7 pm GMT, for the online launch of Zoe Mitchell's excellent, witchy collection, Untold Fortunes. With guests Kate Garrett and Dean Rhetoric. Sign up for the free link here forms.gle/Vo7BhGt5YH5f...
Book cover for Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Book launch on Wednesday October 29th @ 7pm GMT on Zoom
Author photo. A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, smiling.
Wildlings! Sign up here for your free zoom link forms.gle/Vo7BhGt5YH5f... to join Zoe and the Animal Heart team for an excellent evening of poetry and conversation with special guests Kate Garrett and Dean Rhetoric. Wed October 29 @ 7pm GMT!
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Cover art. Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Zoom Launch on Wednesday October 29 @ 7 pm GMT
Wildlings! Come join us on Oct 29 @ 7pm GMT to celebrate publication of Zoe Mitchell's Untold Fortunes!
Get your free link here: forms.gle/Vo7BhGt5YH5f...
Cover art. Wednesday, October 29 at 7 pm GMT on Zoom. Link in post
Wildlings! Join us to celebrate the birth of Zoe Mitchell's Untold Fortunes.
An evening of feminist poetry, mythology, and connection with guests Kate Garrett, Dean Rhetoric, and more!
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The covers of Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell, A Letter From the Mountain and Other Poems by Tom Snarsky, and Dark Way Down by Lauren Parker
Prime Day is an excellent day to buy poetry straight from the source! Check out our most recent titles - and our back catalogue :)
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Wildlings! Today's the day we welcome Zoe Mitchell's excellent collection, Untold Fortunes, into the world. Congratulations, Zoe!
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Photograph of A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems by Tom Snarsky, published by Animal Heart Press (2025), held by editor Han of River River Books in front of RRB table
Found friend of the press @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s new at @animalheartpress.bsky.social along with @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social 🥰🙏💙🎉🎉
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The moon will know the right moment. Let sleep curl against your spine and keep you warm in dreamless sleep.
Out next Tuesday, Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell explores the experiences of women of the past, both mythological and real, giving voice to many who were so often silenced.
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"She mustered in me a mute defiance, a cure for petty regulation and arbitrary limits and she did it all without ever saying a word."
“Zoe Mitchell’s Untold Fortunes is part rumination on what the world may promise, and part realisation of what it delivers. In this ethereal, yet deeply grounded poetry collection, the moon’s ever-changing roles as supporting character, critic, silent protector, and indifferent lover are observed like a morality play set in the theatre of the self. Despite exploring its share of darkness, the true beauty of this collection is in its core message that while the moon cannot make its own brightness, we each possess the ability within to create our own light. This is poetry that makes you want to run at life full bore. A love letter to individuality and carving out a new path when the one set out for you isn’t good enough.” —Dean Rhetoric, author of Foundry Songs
Wildlings, we have a new and timely collection for you. Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell explores the experiences of women of the past, both mythological and real, giving voice to many who were so often silenced. Pre-orders are open!
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#poetry #witchcraft #women
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The hand over young Medusa's mouth wasn't shame - it was the venomous snake of a story that turns people to stone.
“With scintillating lyricism and incisive wit, Untold Fortunes pivots the ancient European trope of the witch to face itself in a moon mirror. Embracing the mutable light of myth and history, Zoe Mitchell seeks the painful truths behind the eldritch lore, drawing into her lunar orbit unruly women from Medusa to Tonya Harding; WWII engineer Beatrice Shilling to a modern British office-worker. Alive to the realities of political violence, yet disavowing faith in supernatural remedies, these curious, nuanced, metaphysical poems chart their own fearless rise to the challenge of meaning-making in a seemingly indifferent universe. While tenderly grounded in the poet’s lived experience of economic precarity, maternal love, friendship and self-sufficiency, Mitchell’s feminist poetry plucks on nerves drawn taut across millennia of nihilistic patriarchal power. Skillfully lineated in stanza forms suggestive of terse ballads and medieval infernos, her lucid music will have you believe that ‘the moment’ is still ours to grasp.” —Dr Naomi Foyle, Reader in Critical Imaginative Writing, University of Chichester
Wildlings! Zoe Mitchell's excellent new collection, Untold Fortunes, will drop on September 23rd. Pre-orders are open!
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We light candles against our fear of the dark, spill blood, shuffle cards, kiss the crystals, watch the skies and above all, we dream.
“Untold Fortunes unspools in bruise-coloured ribbon around women condemned by the world for summoning the very magic needed to survive it. Through these injustices, Mitchell considers the promise inherent within the title’s double meaning—what undreamed lives might exist beyond the ones taken or denied? The poems in Untold Fortunes are bathed in cold lunar light and, like life itself, offer no easy answers. Instead, reading them is akin to defiantly pressing two fingers against the beating jugular: I am still here.” —Glenn James Brown, author of Ironopolis and Mother Naked
Coming soon! Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Pre-orders are open!
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Presenting our Best of the Net nominees!
Poetry From Issue 20: All and After - Merril D. Smith From Issue 21: Jonas Brothers - Alexus Erin (doom) scrolls - mk zariel From Issue 22: I Came to This Walmart Parking Lot to Fight God - Lauren Parker Redacted memory #045 (censored in revolt) - Gordan Struic The Art - Natalie Easton
Art From Issue 21: Seafloor Mystery - Katie Hughbanks Invocation - Rachyl Nyoka Hindsight - Patrick "Rowan" Roughan
Congratulations to all our nominees!
Wildlings! @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social is delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net!
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“In Untold Fortunes, Zoe Mitchell shows us the unflinching magic of women. Whether those women are placed in the modern everyday, the historical or mythical, there is power in every one of their stories. Mitchell never turns away from the difficult or disturbing, while bringing unsung achievements and new perspectives into the light – all of which makes this collection a very rewarding read.” —Kate Garrett, author of To Feed My Woodland Bones
"Accept that the future has you in an unbreakable contract. Sign your name and mean it: the price of any alternative is your life."
Wildlings! Check out our next title, Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Pre-orders are open!
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#poetry #NewTitle #Forthcoming #witchcraft #women
Cover art. Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell, in gold on a dark brown background, with a border of magical imagery also in gold.
Women have long been connected to mythology and witchcraft, often as cautionary tales. Untold Fortunes explores the experiences of women of the past, both mythological and real, giving voice to many who were so often silenced. In history both ancient and modern, these poems tug women from the footnotes. Some are heroines, some monsters…or are they products of the circumstances society forced on them? And how do these echoes shape womanhood even now? In this powerful collection, poet Zoe Mitchell examines what it means to be a woman in the world, through lenses of past, present, and future.
Wildlings! We are excited to announce our final publication of 2025, Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Pre-orders are open!!
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“In the normie yarrow of waking life
my body is an industry
secret, how do you guard
what you don’t know …”
Sturgeon Moon by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social in A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems, published by @animalheartpress.bsky.social
Sheep in the Pyrenees It’s a fucks-given medley, arranged by a jealous man with a terrible misprision of who has done him wrong and why. I will do the laundry tomorrow and hear some of the same tunes coming from the machine and from my phone, scrolling through the cycles. There is a heaviness to friends.
A Letter From The Mountain has been out from @animalheartpress.bsky.social for a month!
thank you so much for any way you’ve engaged with this collection—I’m so grateful it’s in the world :’)
every book for me has at least one little weirdo poem I couldn’t imagine the whole without—here’s ALFTM’s:
A pebbled beach. Four long green leaves lie horizontally on the pebbles. Each one has a word painted on it in white. Find Joy In Everything.
Wildlings! Our journal @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social is open for submissions of poetry and art on the theme of JOY! Let’s clap back at the trashfire. Give us poems and art about the things that make you unbelievably happy.
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#poetry #art #submissions
A screenshot of Beth Gordon from the July 2025 Night Light poetry reading event.
the video of our launch reading for A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is now up!! this was such a delightful & special reading and it was so beautiful to share space with the brilliant authors & editors of @animalheartpress.bsky.social — hope you enjoy :) youtu.be/Qlut6A_Z2Hg
Thank you, Stephanie :)
We had a fabulous time at last night's launch for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's new collection, A Letter From The Mountain and Other Poems Check it out!
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Infographic for the launch of A Letter From The Mountain and other poems. Thursday 7/17 9 pm Eastern. Readers: Lauren Parker, Jude Marr, Zoe Mitchell, Amanda McLeod, C.T. Salazar, Beth Gordon, and Tom Snarsky
We hope you can join us for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's zoom book launch party this Thursday, July 17th, at 9 pm Eastern. Sign up here for the link!
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Tree of Life One day, the sadness will end. — Margaret Lanterman On days when it's looking up life insurance payout restrictions bad, think of a little patch of bluebells in the shade: it's dark, yes, now, but the sun is already beginning its morning transit, will shift the lattice of shadow & light until those flowers, too, see their moment of warm attention. It will pass, yes, that moment. Do not mistake this or be afraid. The stems'll shiver bluely again in evening, for a brief time, but then the moon will appear, its low glow giving everything a dim & constant light
Tom Snarsky 💙
from A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS (Animal Heart Press)
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Prose Poem Another day in the ruinous world, eating peanut butter off a knife.
More from Tom Snarsky 💙
in A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS (Animal Heart Press)
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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William Blake & what could the imagination say of the torturer's horse, that it knew the meaning of eating? that it threw crumbs in the path of the king? the leavening agent, beset on all sides by traitors cracks the proverbial bitter pill & will rise, on the last day. I pray, as ever, for the shape of clean water on which the last two or three Tyrants have been silent. do you remember what the painter said he'd do if he found the right blue
More from Tom Snarsky 💙
in A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS (Animal Heart Press)
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