HESTERGLOCKSmall independent press & publisher
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 ​Est. circa 2012

Hesterglock Press is an unfunded small press, publishing mostly Poem Brut & other artistic, creative projects

We are based in Bristol, UK

Current editor: Paul Hawkins

Art, design & layout: Bob Modem



​We are not currently open for submissions


Book launch event for Danny Clarke’s Extra Ordinary in London Dec 2nd







Hester Glock collaborated with Paul H. on a sound project in 2007.

Paul used the name when setting up his first ever website, and the name has stuck with creative things he has subsequently been involved with since.

Sarer Scotthorne and Paul are both artists and poets, amongst other things, and ran the press from 2012-2024.

They began with an old b & w laser printer, hand-making pamphlets.

Then they started to use print-on-demand services, though not always for every publication.

Hesterglock publish mostly experimental poetry, visual poetry, as well as other artistic projects.

Hesterglock acknowledges the simple fact that we learn through our mistakes.

Hesterglock continue to make mistakes.

Long may that continue.

Hesterglock gratefully acknowledge the many individuals who have supported their work over the past 13 years or so, whether that be buying a book, attending an event, or supporting us through their deeds and/or actions.

Thank you

Paul

This website is under construction, as always . . .

Do get in touch with any questions, queries or orders here.

Extra Ordinary
​Danny Clarke
120 x 120 mm, full colour paperback 
£12 + p&p due Dec 6, 2025

Photo Poetry from an East London community mailman.
Book launch Dec 2 at Love Shack, Railway Arches 297-299, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9HA

“As Danny knows, the world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.”
- Werner Herzog



For fuck's sake get real son
​Linton Scotthorne McBraida

​148mm x 210mm
32 page full colour pamphlet 
£7.50 + p&p​to buy a copy contact Linton with your order details here www.instagram.com/linton_mcbraida/

Prints available by Linton here

Linton is an artist currently living in and somewhere in between Manchester and Bristol, UK


The Parts Of The Body That Stink
SJ Fowler

ISBN: 978-1739556600
127 x 204 mm softcover edition
99 pages
£8.00 + p&p BUY


cover design/artwork: Babak Safari

The Parts Of The Body That Stink
SJ Fowler

ISBN: 978-1739556662
128 x 218 mm ltd. edition hardback
104 pages
£20 + p&p BUY
SJ Fowler is a poet and artist. He works in the modernist and avant-garde traditions, across poetry, fiction, theatre, sonic art, visual art, installation and performance. He has published various collections of poetry and text, and been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, The British Council, Tate Britain, Liverpool Biennial and Wellcome Collection. He has been translated into 21 languages and performed at venues across the world, from Mexico City to Erbil, Beijing to Tbilisi. He is the poetry editor of 3:AM Magazine, Lecturer at Kingston University, teaches at Tate Modern and is the curator of the Enemies project.

other publications from Hesterglock by SJ Fowler;

Unfinished Memmoirs Of A Hypocrit paperback buy
Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire paperback buy




Suggested Breathing
Sarer Scotthorne

148mm x 210mm
32 page pamphlet 
£8.50 + p&p

to buy a copy, please contact Sarer with your order details hereSarer is a poet and a physical performer, she played Gregor in her twenties in Kafka’s Metamorphosis, shape shifting into a young man, a beetle and back to herself. She co-founded Hesterglock Press and is currently associate editor. Her publications are The Blood House, Semblance and she has co-edited a number of anthologies including Writing Utopia 2020. Sarer is researching poetics and Mindfulness for her PhD at Surrey University. She has been employed teaching Wutan Chinese martial arts in Bristol for thirty-five years. Her full collection of visual and word poetry Mutter is due for publication in 2025.


Shrink a crisp packet
Jules Sprake

ISBN: 978-1-7395566-2-4
148 x 210 mm full colour paperback
£8 + p&p worldwide 
email us to buyJules Sprake has experimented with forms of printmaking and poetry, often starting with photographs of buildings or discarded objects to produce work that focuses on dis/connections between the parts. She is interested in the use of traditional printmaking techniques such as etching, cyanotype, salt print or lithography to process these photographs and poems. Sprake has recently exhibited from a series of work, Densities of Blank, at Impact 12: The Printmaker’s Voice and is a mentor with Koestler Arts. She has performed work for the European Poetry Festival and Printed Poetry Project.

View some of her work here:

3:AM Poem Brut #150
Learning Through Touring

Mun Sun
Maja Torjussen

ISBN: 978-1739807153
108 x 175 mm paperback
52 pages
£8 + p&p BUY
Feb 16, 2024​Maja Hagen Torjussen (born in Kristiansand, Norway, 1991) graduated with a BA Creative Writing at Roehampton University in 2016, and has since explored what a poem can be, playing with form through writing, songwriting and visual works. As editor of the independent publisher Lik forlag in her home town along with poet Atle Håland, she worked on contextualising anthologies in collaboration with other writers and publishing own works, such as her debut novel Elpis: en demonologi (Lik forlag, 2019), and later a children’s book, Sladden viser vei (2020). Elpis: en demonologi was written as a parallell but autonomous story, exploring artist Jon S. Lunde’s The Real Inspector, an audiovisual art exhibition. 

In 2021 Torjussen had her first solo exhibition, Strekkeren, at gallery Arteriet 51K, combining objects and sculptures with poems and old frames, exploring lack of coherence in language by default. The same year Torjussen started making music and releasing records with her now husband Lyd. Sladden is their cat.


Troposphere
Peter Jaeger & Paul Hawkins

contact us for a free PDF


​Ridiculous Unlikely Attempt
Iris Colomb

ISBN: 978-1-7395566-4-8
45 page paperback
Dec 5, 2023
​£8 + p&p
contact Iris directly to order a copy: colomb.iris@gmail.comThe book & the album of the same name was launched on Dec 5 2023 at New River Studios 
199, Eade Road, London, N4 1DN 

Skronk released the accompanying digital album, containing all the poems in the book in their live improvised form.

website: https://www.iriscolomb.com


Notes Of A Mongrel’s DNA
Lydia Hounat

ISBN: 978-1739807160 
190 x 190 mm
50 page paperback
£8 + p&p

to order a copy visit Lydia's website here https://www.lydiahounat.co.uk/notes-of-a-mongrels-dna
I am a British-Algerian (Kabyle) writer and photographer from Manchester, England. I’m interested in mixed heritage, sex, and intergenerational trauma, and how we can use mixed-media to narrate these experiences. I’m currently undertaking a PhD at Falmouth University / University Arts London.
I move between Manchester, London and Cornwall. I co- founded SOBER Magazine with my friend Rupert Phillips in 2018, and acted as Poetry Editor for REALITY BEACH between 2016 - 2019. I also sporadically run litbitch where I review literature.
Lydia Hounat April, 2023


Alsdorf (collaborative novel)

ISBN: 978-1-7398071-9-1
210 x 210 mm 
84 pages full-colour paperback 
£7.50 + p&pavailable at Loaves & Fishes, Salford
or via email from Ursula Hurley at Manchester Uni ︎︎︎here

edited & curated by Stephen Sunderland


My Culture is Flowers
Miggy Angel

ISBN: 978-1739556655
118 page perfect-bound paperback
£10 + p&p worldwide BUY
front cover artwork: Dhiyana Hassan Miggy Angel is a poet, workshop facilitator, event organiser, compere, editor, photographer and film-maker.

Miggy is the author of the poetry collections Grime Kerbstone Psalms published by Celandor books, Extreme Violets Book 1 & 2 (Hi-Vis Press), Boy Bestiary (Icefloe Press) & The Hour of the Dog (Salo Press).

Miggy is the facilitator of the Do Or Die Poets (a weekly creative writing workshop for people in addiction recovery).

Miggy Angel is one half of the musical project, We Bleed Ink, with producer / musician extraordinaire John Freer.

Miggy Angel is a South Londoner, who lives in Nottingham, England.  


Poems You Can’t Colour In
Martin Wakefield

ISBN 978-1-7398071-7-7
paperback 
published: Sept 18, 2023
£10.00 + p&p buyMartin is a writer from London.

also by Martin Wakefield:

Prote(s)xt imprint Cat No: P-019 - Zugunruhe £3.00 buy
Jungle Gym buy/more info


Dreich Air
Ben Carr & Michael Hinchcliffe

148 x 210 mm
36 page premium b&w perfect-bound paperback
date: Aug 23, 2023
£6.00 + p&p buy a copywords: Ben Carr
illustrations: Michael Hinchcliffe


Postcards From Mental States
Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins

64 page photo book 
landscape 229 x 178 mm premium color paperback
£20 + p&p 
BUY

Prints available from Julia & Paul’s collaborative work here

​for the Postcards From Mental States website look hereOur collaborative project, Postcards From Mental States started by exchanging digital archives of travelling through America at times when we had both felt overwhelmed; a simple realisation that we tend to document difficult times in our lives. We create archives of ourselves to revise at a time when we are less overwhelmed. We know we are very easy to very easily overwhelmed. If whelm originally meant to overturn, then a vessel is implied here. To overwhelm is to over-repeat turn a vessel. Turning over an engine gets a motorboat started, and yet overturning a boat pauses or stops the boat in the water. Exchanging our personal archives felt like turning over an hourglass. The passage of sand back and forth and back and forth is a soothing and subtle reference to death. The pattern of sand grains runs on the hourglass.

JRL & PH 
Nov. 2022