'Hot Sauce Design 1: Death & Rectal Malfunction'. A new blog post about a specific - and dubiously attractive - kind of hot sauce branding:
lukeathompson.com/post/hot-sauce…

Next Week. Three Poets. Pamphlet launch. Free and Online. That's Phoebe Power, Maia and Nadira Wallace at 7pm on Thursday 18th April. Please book via our website Events page here guillemotpress.co.uk/events

Loved being back in archives today, but could have done without this fella watching me the whole time.

Congratulations to Luke Thompson and Ortac Press. Looking forward to hearing more about Luke's new book Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum when Luke joins Jen Hadfield as guest on her online Moniack Mhor month-long The Passionate Essay course in June. 😊

New book! 📣🦜🐁🦍

In September we publish Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals by Luke Thompson.

Join Luke on a fascinating and surreal journey through human-animal conversation, real and imagined.

More at ortacpress.com/product-page/d…

Cover by Donya Todd

Made the Bookseller! Amazing. (That's an enormous photo of me, mind.)

Ortac Press has signed Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals, an exploration of human-animal conversation, from Luke Thompson. 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/ortac-p…

Happy Publication Day!

Welcome to the world ‘Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections’ …

Only £12.99 for the illustrated first edition hardback, which includes decorative postcard and free shipping.
hermitagepress.org/?product=twelv…

Been thinking about all the literature coming out of Cornwall, among other things, and a blog post (sort of slightly a book review) rambled out Hermitage Press
Luke Thompson Jodie Rhian Matthews bit.ly/4cxR8LF

These arrived today and the finished hardback is a thing of beauty!

Have you pre-ordered yours yet?

hermitagepress.org/?product=twelv…

Only £12.99 for the illustrated first edition hardback, which includes decorative postcard and free shipping.

Release date: 22.3.2024

This weekend Hermitage Press launch a new book of stories for Cornwall's 12 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, featuring Cathy Rentzenbrink Edward Rowe Wyl Menmuir Clare Howdle & loads more. Mine is 'The Monkey in the Woodshed', set on Bodmin Moor. hermitagepress.org/?product=twelv…

In June I'll be beaming in to join Jen Hadfield as guest writer on her Passionate Essay course for Moniack Mhor. My bit will be open to the public and I'll be giving a sneak preview of my forthcoming Ortac Press book. See here for more info and to book:
moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2467-o…

Out Now. COLOURS OF MOURNING by Maia. The poetic counterpart in many ways to her life of the artist Dante Elsner. A beautiful new bookling that comes with a set of postcards of Dante's artwork. Read more and pick up a copy here... guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry

Gloomy Greenhouse Poets - Part 2 - Thomas Hardy. If he was going to write a poem about greenhouses it was going to be a gloomy poem.

New hot sauce reviews too. Recommending Singularity Sauce Co. 7-Pot and Wiltshire Chilli Farm Golden Bonnet.
lukeathompson.com/post/gloomy-gr…

The first reviews are in and they are excellent! Have you pre-ordered yours yet? Visit: hermitagepress.org/?product=twelv…… Robin Falvey Gareth Rees Cornwall National Landscape Rachel Lichtenstein Polly Roberts annamaria murphy Clare Howdle Wyl Menmuir Luke Thompson Edward Rowe Cathy Rentzenbrink

Hatchlings and Ladybirds. The first seedlings emerge, as do the first ladybirds of the year. New blog post on pepper progress, along with John Clare's ladybird poem. (Probably a few new blog posts - I've been busy with the hot sauce reviews!) lukeathompson.com/blog

Gloomy Greenhouse Poets. I was tidying the greenhouse and trying to think of some greenhouse poems and poets. Turns out they’re a miserable bunch. So here’s a new post on ‘Gloomy Greenhouse Poets’, featuring Maurice Maeterlinck… (The bat's a red herring.)
lukeathompson.com/post/gloomy-gr…

I've started a blog on growing chillies & reviewing & making hot sauces. lukeathompson.com/blog. It's a way of recording the growing season for me, figuring out what works here, what doesn't, & why. Leaning towards writing about culture and design as the blog evolves too...

OUT NOW. New Selima Hill, The Lonely Slug, hardback bookling with artwork by Moby Hill (and cover slug by Ria Gunton). Please see here for more... guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry