Latest Holy&intoxicated Publications releases

Here is a message from my mate John D Robinson in the UK:

The Latest publication from Holy&intoxicated Publications is the chapbook 'scream before they kill your poetry' by Pete Donohue: a UK poet: his 2nd collection. His previous publication was the chapbook 'Tommy Two Guns' Analog Submission Press, UK. Pete is active in the local poetry scene in Hastings on the south coast. He is MC for regular poetry readings and is a literary editor of the 'Hastings Independent Press' free newspaper:

and here is the title poem:

scream

there may

have been one

when i slipped

shriveled & wet

from the uterus

into this

dangerous world

how would i

remember

i do recall

however

later screams

of sibling births

& family frustrations

unable to distinguish

between

those of joy

of surprise

of rebellion

of downright terror

or exclamations

in delight

in frustration

in alarm

in fear of violence

& its aftermath

of pain

& perhaps

a drug comedown

or a eureka

moment

or a vocal

orgasm

maybe

the discovery

of a body

dead

or nearly so

& the incubus

of night sweats

that chokes

all utterances

yet can never

pacify them

until we

slip back

through that

interconnecting

channel

between

the difficulty

of birth

& the ease

of death

to realise

life

is but a scream

until

we know

true

silence.

  

 Also forthcoming is a chapbook from Holy&intoxicated Publications 'The Lost Future In A Pair Of Blue Eyes' Joseph Ridgwell & John D Robinson: Publication date is 15th December 2019: this book will also come with a separate piece of signed short fiction from Joseph Ridgwell and a signed collage by John D Robinson.