Cephalopress

Cephalopress Cephalopress is an independent publishing house based in London and Milan. Our focus is the literary

"I’ve been trying to wear love on my chestand say it with my chest, but well-wishers,they harry. Good luck, merry this, ...
08/02/2024

"I’ve been trying to wear love on my chest
and say it with my chest, but well-wishers,
they harry. Good luck, merry this, I wish you
that and more, it wears out my tensile
strength."

Echo chamber sweet-talk by Aïcha Martine Thiam

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"I mount with difficulty the two short flights of stairs. Oh, castles, seasons!Returning from Harrar – the horror!Having...
06/02/2024

"I mount with difficulty the two short flights of stairs. Oh, castles, seasons!
Returning from Harrar – the horror!
Having paused frequently for gulps of breath, I check my mail. Nothing."

Rimbaud on the parkfield campus by David Ball

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"the black gumlineof knife isbest gripped against   teeththe clip snuck wholeon side  -  streets,   far as needlepoint"A...
03/02/2024

"the black gumline
of knife is
best gripped against teeth
the clip snuck whole
on side - streets, far as needlepoint"

A couple of seagulls laughing by d.S. randoL

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"Here in the bayou,the moon is coldbut nothing else is.Two men in a canoepull into shifting shore,with a creel of catfis...
01/02/2024

"Here in the bayou,
the moon is cold
but nothing else is.
Two men in a canoe
pull into shifting shore,
with a creel of catfish.
Foggy dusk disappears
into dark."

Catfish swamp by John Grey

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"What mercy does history have?A vindication or two shoves backwardfor every thrust forth?Lord, the walls of all building...
30/01/2024

"What mercy does history have?
A vindication or two shoves backward
for every thrust forth?
Lord, the walls of all buildings in every city
could be covered with the names, the faces, the graffiti of ghosts.
Are you a renegade?"

Flames from the undertow
(for Marge Piercy’s Vida)
by Stephen Mead

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"sewing the remnants of now and then,with threads of the undertow;threads as redas graciousness.we are the gray,making t...
27/01/2024

"sewing the remnants of now and then,
with threads of the undertow;
threads as red
as graciousness.
we are the gray,
making time.
the sisters of our thoughts,
not our clever virtues."

Ray guns and severity by Andrew Furst

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"You say black, white, blinded by color,culture forthcoming as genes.I was born in withdrawal & then later,once every ho...
25/01/2024

"You say black, white, blinded by color,
culture forthcoming as genes.
I was born in withdrawal & then later,
once every hour, started to yell."

Nobody's Child by Stephen Mead

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"at the dusk of dreaming,i must not forgeti cannot fly.i am born, each day,a pair of eyesand a lumbering torso.dreaming"...
05/01/2024

"at the dusk of dreaming,
i must not forget
i cannot fly.
i am born, each day,
a pair of eyes
and a lumbering torso.
dreaming"

Cottony by Andrew Furst

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"I do what I want,if you haven't noticed. I've grownokay with myself,if not this weather. Outsidethe construction beamsr...
04/01/2024

"I do what I want,
if you haven't noticed. I've grown
okay with myself,
if not this weather. Outside
the construction beams
rise and fall, while the soot-stained men raise their mournful voices."

Two weekend poems by Jack Sullivan

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"How I am right now is a golden field(head down letting myself feelso much a stingray ascends outof me and swims into sk...
03/01/2024

"How I am right now is a golden field
(head down letting myself feel
so much a stingray ascends out
of me and swims into sky).
I cannot identify the plants
I am masking my sadness in. Orange-
capped mushroom head
with dropping greens"

How I am right now by James Croal Jackson

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"Sure, I know the DJ at Belvedere’s tonightbut that is all I have. My body is an oceanliner that imagined a destination ...
02/01/2024

"Sure, I know the DJ at Belvedere’s tonight
but that is all I have. My body is an ocean
liner that imagined a destination when
departing, but lost its way mid-voyage
while passengers scream it’s okay!
It’s okay!"

It's complicated by James Croal Jackson

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"Sun is out there somewhere but not shining.Air has that patina of hard wet rain.He sits on his porch,walking stick at h...
30/12/2023

"Sun is out there somewhere but not shining.
Air has that patina of hard wet rain.
He sits on his porch,
walking stick at his side,
pipe in mouth,
searching for the foothills
through the streaky gray."

Not shining by John Grey

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"Bottled mind,ConfinedTo my own sweet air.I hear theWhite python hiss,See itsPink eyes swell."No fear by Katie RobertsRe...
29/12/2023

"Bottled mind,
Confined
To my own sweet air.
I hear the
White python hiss,
See its
Pink eyes swell."

No fear by Katie Roberts

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“everything went black”fourteen years old suburbanwhite boy blues kicked in—punk rock saved my soul"Everyone mourns diff...
28/12/2023

“everything went black”
fourteen years old suburban
white boy blues kicked in—
punk rock saved my soul"

Everyone mourns differently by Tohm Bakelas

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"beckoned over,insects gather& begin or**esin the corner of his eye—he is getting to knowblood & thought & skinas someth...
27/12/2023

"beckoned over,
insects gather
& begin or**es
in the corner of his eye—
he is getting to know
blood & thought & skin
as something to grab a handful of"

Paternal by Barnaby Smith

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"In a portable planetarium called a StarLab in a gym in a school in the backwater burbs of western Maryland in 1989 ther...
26/12/2023

"In a portable planetarium called a StarLab in a gym in a school in the backwater burbs of western Maryland in 1989 there’s a kid sitting Indian style—not cross-legged, no, not like applesauce, they didn’t say that, then, they didn’t know better or they knew differently......"

StarLab by Jon Doughboy

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"If you hold your ear close to these cracksin the bark you will hear their screaminwardly developed with the passingwind...
25/12/2023

"If you hold your ear close to these cracks
in the bark you will hear their scream
inwardly developed with the passing
wind. You do not see this."

Lines by Bann Ister

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"Love and loyalty, the former entails twiceAs much input or effort of the heartAs the latter to maintain a disparatelySi...
24/12/2023

"Love and loyalty, the former entails twice
As much input or effort of the heart
As the latter to maintain a disparately
Similar humane relationship as a speech act"

Englines by Yuan Changming

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"going to the station--be it police, radio or transit,between situations, illegible contexts, my waving handbrushed some...
23/12/2023

"going to the station--be it police, radio or transit,
between situations, illegible contexts, my waving hand
brushed something other than air, i feel the pollen
before i answer by sneezing, thirsty globules,
goblets too heavy to lift and leaking"

Getting in tune by Dan Raphael

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"I bought that finca, that dry farm, pittance for us peasants, hashtag homestead goals. The cows speak Español, the bird...
22/12/2023

"I bought that finca, that dry farm, pittance
for us peasants, hashtag homestead goals. The cows
speak Español, the birds
do not speak at all. The churches
remember their heaviness, their"

Another life by Erin Clark

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.Couple more snaps from Monday’s discussion at the event celebrating Borders and Belinging and The art of returning.    ...
15/12/2023

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Couple more snaps from Monday’s discussion at the event celebrating Borders and Belinging and The art of returning.

.Come down to  next Monday December 11th. Doors open at 8.15PMAs part of  we’ll have poetry readings from our anthony, B...
05/12/2023

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Come down to next Monday December 11th. Doors open at 8.15PM
As part of we’ll have poetry readings from our anthony, Borders & Belonging, followed by a Q&A and film screening. Should be a great night!
Tickets available on the door or online via

.We are excited to announce Borders & Belonging teaming up with  for a night of poetry and film! Join us on the evening ...
24/11/2023

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We are excited to announce Borders & Belonging teaming up with for a night of poetry and film!
Join us on the evening of December 11th at Rich Mix in London (8.15pm) for poetry readings and discussion around Borders & Belonging, followed by a screening of Reminiscence of a Journey to Lithuania. Should be a great night!
Check out and for ticket info.

We are excited to announce our next poetry collection: The Japanese House by Tamiko Dooley  🍓📖Join us for the launch on ...
07/09/2023

We are excited to announce our next poetry collection: The Japanese House by Tamiko Dooley 🍓📖

Join us for the launch on Friday October 20th at Backstory on London. Details to follow!

We are excited to announce our next poetry collection: The Japanese House by Tamiko Dooley  🍓📖Join us for the launch on ...
06/09/2023

We are excited to announce our next poetry collection: The Japanese House by Tamiko Dooley 🍓📖

Join us for the launch on Friday October 20th at Backstory on London. Details to follow!

We are excited to announce our next poetry collection: The Japanese House by Tamiko Dooley  🍓📖Join us for the launch on ...
05/09/2023

We are excited to announce our next poetry collection: The Japanese House by Tamiko Dooley 🍓📖
Join us for the launch on Friday October 20th at Backstory on London. Details to follow!

Paternal by Barnaby Smith ✒️Read more on cephalopress.comLink in bio X
11/08/2023

Paternal by Barnaby Smith ✒️

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The Writers’ Press

Cephalopress is an independent publishing house formed of writers, operating out of Italy and the UK. Our aim is to help other writers who may be having difficulty in finding a home for their work based on the fact it might not be seen as ‘commercially viable’. Simply put, we want to publish good writing; real literature, the experimental and the brave, the forward-thinking in both form and content, the stuff mainstream publishing will rarely touch. They are afraid. We are not.