Little Bitch – coming soon from Verve Poetry Press!
“Sharp, tender, hilarious. Little Bitch is a marvel! I am moved and changed reading it. Sutton takes us from raspberry ice cream to murdered girl-meat, oscillating between the brutal and beautiful, the candied and cruel, masterfully. ‘Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous’. I’m going to be shouting about this one from the rooftops.” – Rachel Long
Artisanal Slush (Verve Poetry Press, September 2023)
Artisanal Slush is an attempt to transcribe the algorithms that make up a self, whatever that means in the early 21st-century. Ellora Sutton leans unapologetically into the things that bring her joy, her obsessions – from Taylor Swift to John Keats, from Jurassic Park to Hildegard of Bingen’s cosmic vulva via Animal Crossing and fanfiction coffee shop AUs. Sutton is a poet at play, out to celebrate the endless possibility of living whilst, still, looking for something like a happy ending. Or at least a bundle of cheap rhubarb and a homemade scone. And an answer to the age-old question: Pepsi or Coca-Cola?
antonyms for burial (Fourteen Poems, October 2022)
Poetry Book Society Spring 2023 Pamphlet Choice!
A reader about to taste the zestful phrasing of antonyms for burial should prepare themselves: this is exhilarating writing. – John McCullough
antonyms for burial is hallmarked by a thrilling flair for imagery which reveals and celebrates the truth of intuition. It is a refusal not to wring the last drop of wonder and sensuality from our experience of the world. – Ella Duffy
As shown by Sutton, the most important asset in life is time and I couldn’t put this down, I read it three times through without being able to stop to catch my breath. – Hannah Hodgson
Three Months in Petersfield (Petersfield Museum, October 2022)
A pamphlet of poems and essays from stint as poet-in-residence at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery, responding to life and works of writers Edward and Helen Thomas, and artist Flora Twort – the book includes many beautifully reproduced Twort pieces. Available from the Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery shop.
In these evocative and inventive poems responding to her time immersed in the treasures of Petersfield Museum, Ellora Sutton demonstrates beautifully how ‘each display cabinet may well be an incubator holding a hundred poems waiting to hatch’. Petersfield’s rich cultural heritage is illuminated. – Sarah Doyle
All the Shades of Grief (Nightingale & Sparrow, September 2020)
Ellora Sutton 