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

17/10/2024

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To all our Cephalopress readers and writers, unfortunately we bring sad news. After six years, we’re heartbroken to say Cephalopress will be closing at the end of 2024. We have loved supporting and publishing our authors, from seeing their first thoughts about the book, and nurturing their work to the complete publications they come to be. With the indie publishing sector being what it is, we feel we are unable to carry on at this time. All our books will continue to be available online until the end of December so grab your copies while you can. There are some true gems in there. We’re hopeful we will be able to continue an online after-life, still publishing through our Ink-Sac, so if you like us, you can continue to support us by reading and engaging with our authors there. With love, The Cephalopress Team 🖤🐙🖋️

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.