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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 13h

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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#poetry #NewReleases

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

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 16d

Wildlings! Today's the day we welcome Zoe Mitchell's excellent collection, Untold Fortunes, into the world. Congratulations, Zoe!
animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...
#poetry #NewTitle #PublicationDay #women #witchcraft

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Found friend of the press @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s new at @animalheartpress.bsky.social along with @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social 🥰🙏💙🎉🎉

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

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 21d

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.
Pre-orders are open! animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...
#poetry #NewTitle #women #witchcraft

The moon will know the right moment.
Let sleep curl against your spine
and keep you warm in dreamless sleep.

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 25d

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!
animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...
#poetry #witchcraft #women

"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

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wildlings! Zoe Mitchell's excellent new collection, Untold Fortunes, will drop on September 23rd. Pre-orders are open!
animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...

#poetry #NewTitle #ComingSoon #witchcraft #women

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

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Coming soon! Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Pre-orders are open!
animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...

#NewTitle #NewBook #poetry #witchcraft #women

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

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wildlings! @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social is delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net!

#BestOfTheNet #poetry #art

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

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wildlings! Check out our next title, Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Pre-orders are open!
animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...
#poetry #NewTitle #Forthcoming #witchcraft #women

“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."

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wildlings! We are excited to announce our final publication of 2025, Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell. Pre-orders are open!!
animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...

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.

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · Aug 4

“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

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Aug 19

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:

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.

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Aug 2

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.
feralpoetry.net/submissions/

#poetry #art #submissions

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.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

A screenshot of Beth Gordon from the July 2025 Night Light poetry reading event.

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you, Stephanie :)

Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Jul 18

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!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlut...

Night Light poetry reading series #23 (July 2025 — A Letter From The Mountain Launch w/Animal Heart)

YouTube video by Poetry Books On Tape

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Jul 14

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!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#BookLaunch #Poetry #ZoomEvent

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

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Jul 10

Tom Snarsky 💙

from A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS (Animal Heart Press)

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
@animalheartpress.bsky.social

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

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Jul 12

More from Tom Snarsky 💙

in A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS (Animal Heart Press)

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
@animalheartpress.bsky.social

Prose Poem

Another day in the ruinous world, eating peanut butter off a knife.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Jul 13

More from Tom Snarsky 💙

in A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS (Animal Heart Press)

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
@animalheartpress.bsky.social

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

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Jul 14

Wildlings! Only three more days to get you pre-orders in for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's stellar new collection, A Letter From The Mountain!
animalheartpress.net/a-letter-fro...

Cover art. A minimalist sketch of a tree, white on a black background. The branches reach up like fingers.

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wildlings! Join us for the launch of @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's brilliant new collection, A Letter From The Mountain and Other Poems. We'd love to see you! Register here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Sponsored by Nightlight. A zoom reading on Thursday 7/17 at 9 pm Eastern.
Readers: Lauren Parker, Jude Marr, Zoe Mitchell, Amanda McLeod, C.T. Salazar, Beth Gordon, Tom Snarsky

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Jul 7

Wildlings, we're counting down! Only ten more days until @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's brilliant new collection, A Letter From The Mountain, is officially launched into the world. Get your pre-orders in and be among the first to discover what the hype is all about. animalheartpress.net/a-letter-fro...

Cover art. A minimalist drawing of a bare tree, branches reaching upward like an open hand

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jul 6

Reminder that I wrote a whole book of genderqueer sci fi poems about David Bowie and @animalheartpress.bsky.social bought it. You should support small presses and queer art as much as possible and if do buy it I’ll probably kiss you so factor that in. animalheartpress.net/dark-way-dow...

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · Jun 30

Wildlings! The Revolution (Issue) of @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social is here! Look at that spectacular cover art by Lauren Silex - don't you love it? Many thanks to all our contributors. Enjoy!

feralpoetry.net/issue-twenty...

#poetry #NewIssue #art

Cover art. A painting of a bird with a pink, jeweled body and a white head that rises into a red and orange plume, like fire. The background is split: on the left, orange with multiple small objects in jewel tones; on the right, darkness with traces of blue

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