10/28/2025
It’s pub day for our second book of the season, MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR by Mary Simmons! 🎉This one’s a bit of a departure for the press, and it’s unlike anything else you’ll find. Think of it as a Victorian naturalist’s collection gathered from fables and folklore and myth and ballet and ghost stories. It’s richly, compellingly weird, full of omens and insects and water and wolves and women transforming, with just the right dark-and-witchy vibe to launch the week of Halloween.
Mary Simmons’s poetic style is both lush and precise—eerie, dreamlike, intricate, almost undulating. This book has atmosphere. It holds up a lantern and leads you deep into some dark storybook woods, where you’ll lose yourself in the language of the different feminine personas that speak through its pages. And it’s especially engaging in print, with tarot cards, woodcuts, vintage typography, and mysterious botanical details that frame and echo the beautiful strangeness of the poetry.
Visit the press website (www.juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur) for endorsements, full book and author info, audio clips, pictures, a playlist, and ways to order this bewitching new collection—our ✨tenth✨ book to date. And join us this Thursday night, right before Halloween, for a virtual celebration featuring a bunch of other press authors reading spooky-seasonal poems (link in bio or register at bit.ly/mother-daughter-augur-launch)!
