Cerasus Poetry Update 2025

Let's begin with a plug for the 3 winning entries of last year's Poetry Chapbook Competition:

Matrifocal. Vatic. Mournful. Myther by Tracey Hope explores loss of connection with identity and environment.

myther: /mɪθ.ər/ noun: Mother and creator of myth.: Amazon.co.uk: Hope, Tracey: 9798329262414: Books

Against the backdrop of the climate catastrophe we find ourselves in, Christina Hennemann the author of Leafing goes on a journey of self-discovery in a time of multiple crises. 

Leafing: Amazon.co.uk: Hennemann, Christina: 9798332394102: Books

Naming the storm is a confessional work which follows Mark G Pennington's life through varying stages, from a stay in hospital to living rough to working as a cleaner in a car dealership. 

Naming the Storm: Amazon.co.uk: Pennington, Mark G.: 9798332395765: Books

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The book editing and publishing side of Cerasus is currently on indefinite hiatus and it is unlikely there will be another competition this year. Basically, it takes up too much of my time and creative energy, while barely breaking even in financial terms.

Meanwhile, the rebranded Cerasus Poetry Magazine is finding its feet and is currently open for submissions for Issue # 4.

Please check out our guidelines and consider sending some of your work for possible publication.

Submissions – CERASUS Magazine

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All of our previously published titles can still be found for sale on Amazon.

Our Top 10 sellers are: I Am From Stargazing On Rooftops, Crown Of Eggshell, My Brain In All Its Perfidious Beauty, Waiting For Another Velvet Morning, 33.9 Million Miles From Lyme Regis, Calamity Gospel, The Coveted, A Snake Charmer's Assistant, I Dreamt I Wrote Another Me and Ghost And Found.

Books in need of extra love: Bedding Plants For My Father, Hunter In A World Of Farmers, Preparing A Child For The Physical World, In Search Of A Subject, Once The Earth Had Two Moons, Beautiful Fish, Swim With Me In Deep Water, Outbranching, The Gnawing Flood, Last Night I Met John Adcock, Chiseled Teeth, Painting For Lemonade, I Think I'd Rather Roar and Women Who Were Warned.

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I keep saying it, but this year I'm determined to complete 2 of my own personal writing projects. It's one of those landmark birthdays in July (that don't bear thinking about) so it's about bloody time.

The moral of the story is: WRITE IT NOW!