Sonnets for Hooch: Lemon Bloom Season is the first of a four-part pamphlet series which writes sonnets attuned to the weirding seasons. What started as an internet joke about alcopops and longing became a keystone for exploring adolescent malaise, nostalgia and resilience, the politics of civic space and moments of euphoria and friendship amidst the daily grind of crisis. And why not use the form of the sonnet, little song, to riff on all this, given that we wanted to make poetry ~pop again? 
 
Lemon Bloom Season is a collaboration between emergent and established small UK poetry presses (Mermaid Motel, Rat Press, Fathomsun Press) and three writers whose work intersects with a post-internet, hyperpop and sweet-sour neon flavour, dressed up in fancy lyric garms. Expect something fizzy, resistant and ultimately wholesome; as Colin Herd writes: ‘the perfect expression of what it means to write your poems in the mouths of your friends’.

This is an audio recording from a Zoom launch held on the 17th April 2021 featuring readings from Mau Baiocco, Kyle Lovell and Maria Sledmere.

You can order a copy of the pamphlet here: https://fathomsun.com/lemon-bloom-season/.

Sonnets for Hooch: Lemon Bloom Season (Launch Readings)

https://maifeminism.com/self-portait-at-27/

Self Portrait At 27

Readings by Maria Sledmere and Kirsty Dunlop as part of a solstice launch at Typewronger Books, which also featured readings from Gloria Dawson and Katy Lewis Hood. Poems include extracts from Maria and Kirsty's 2018 dream journal, plus new publication Rainbow Arcadia (Face Press) and Kirsty's beautiful tree sequence and bubble-gun poem from the picket line.

Winter Solstice Typewronger Reading with Kirsty Dunlop, 21st December

'A LUNACIDE' // poem-essay from January 2020.

A LUNACIDE

SYBIL

Poem 'Transpiration' by Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere (overlay), from infra·structure (Broken Sleep Books, 2020)

Maria Rose Sledmere

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