Wildly good poetry books
2025 & 2026: Drunk Muse Press will publish books by: Eleanor Tennyson, John Atkinson, Nazaret Ranea, Matthew Keeley, Julie Sheridan, Jamie O Halloran, Angelos Kouros, Martin Goldie, Alistair Lawrie, Dorothy Lawrenson, Brett Evans, Keeks Mc, Olive Ritch, Anne Pia and Jane McBeth.
New from Drunk Muse Press
Nettles by Nazaret Ranea
& . . . A way to summer/I swear to you on the mountain I have no holier oath by Angelos Kouros
To Write About a Black Horse
To write about a black horse,
you must have stood in its presence –
not just ridden it,
but witnessed the sun pouring
like warm honey
over its glossy coat,
with the green grasses shaking,
alive, ready to be crushed
under the weight of that power.
You must look inside of its nostrils –
two caves forming tornadoes.
Its hooves – shovels of dust.
Its tail – the softest whip.
To write about a black horse,
you must first understand
that unlike its gallop,
your legs will never make
the ground tremble
when you walk upon it.
- Nazaret Ranea
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