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'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
'I sometimes see poems described as 'playful', and it's simply a stand-in for a word that means anything but 'actively sombre' - these poems, however, are genuine acts of play, language games where a lyric I cavorts against the limits of how a self is permitted to self-narrate. Contemporary emphemera rubs up against canon, grief finds a shared vocabulary with sexual fluidity. Little Bitch is a work of dynamism and scholarly rigour, daylight wit and desperation.' Susannah Dickey
'I imagine the words ‘Little Bitch’ painted on the side of a bomb, falling from the sky, and I am giddy with envy that you are about to be in its crater, its explosion of smarts and sensuality and sincerity and other things beginning with s I can’t think of right now because mostly what I want to say is ‘astonishing astonishing astonishing, these poems, this brain, this openness to the world, and all the pain and pleasure within it’, and if you do not feel that after reading this you and me cannot be friends.' Rishi Dastidar
Little Bitch hangs out in cemeteries, art galleries, hot-pink nuclear bunkers. She ruins your favourite movies and won’t stop talking about how hungry she is, horses, roses, her dead mother, the sea. She watches too much Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She is a Venusian hellhole. She is too pretty to cry.
Ellora Sutton’s hotly-anticipated debut collection is an unsettling exposé of wasted potential, the precarity of desire, and the violence of girlhood. With cameos from Hello Kitty, Susan Sontag, Tony Hawk, and Marina Abramović, Little Bitch uses a powderpuff to serve up a suckerpunch with a side of Black Forest Gateau.
'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
'I sometimes see poems described as 'playful', and it's simply a stand-in for a word that means anything but 'actively sombre' - these poems, however, are genuine acts of play, language games where a lyric I cavorts against the limits of how a self is permitted to self-narrate. Contemporary emphemera rubs up against canon, grief finds a shared vocabulary with sexual fluidity. Little Bitch is a work of dynamism and scholarly rigour, daylight wit and desperation.' Susannah Dickey
'I imagine the words ‘Little Bitch’ painted on the side of a bomb, falling from the sky, and I am giddy with envy that you are about to be in its crater, its explosion of smarts and sensuality and sincerity and other things beginning with s I can’t think of right now because mostly what I want to say is ‘astonishing astonishing astonishing, these poems, this brain, this openness to the world, and all the pain and pleasure within it’, and if you do not feel that after reading this you and me cannot be friends.' Rishi Dastidar
Little Bitch hangs out in cemeteries, art galleries, hot-pink nuclear bunkers. She ruins your favourite movies and won’t stop talking about how hungry she is, horses, roses, her dead mother, the sea. She watches too much Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She is a Venusian hellhole. She is too pretty to cry.
Ellora Sutton’s hotly-anticipated debut collection is an unsettling exposé of wasted potential, the precarity of desire, and the violence of girlhood. With cameos from Hello Kitty, Susan Sontag, Tony Hawk, and Marina Abramović, Little Bitch uses a powderpuff to serve up a suckerpunch with a side of Black Forest Gateau.
- GenresPoetry
80 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2026
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Review of advance copy
I had the pleasure of taking part in Ellora's Imagining Better: Poems for Possibility workshop and seeing her perform a number of these poems at the VERVE Poetry Showcase - The Queer Uni-Verse at Southampton Litfest last weekend, and I have never moved faster than getting to the table to purchase this book once the showcase was over.
I've spent the day reading through this collection and I am truly blown away and beyond inspired by Ellora's writing. The poems hit like a radioactive pink truck through a touching picnic in a bucolic park leaving everything bloody, pink, mangled, and exquisite.
The collection purposely both deftly and abruptly swings from delicate, intimate explorations of the self, where she finds herself, and the frisson of new love and infatuation, through bittersweet and blackly comical explorations of relationships, sexuality, and the disappointment that is certain kinds of men, to haunting and visceral confrontations of the harm others, society, and herself inflicted upon herself and living with echoes and scars.
Every poem is livid with life and luminescence from the candy pink to burning black.
Sutton plays with form and voice in a multitude of fascinating and effective ways from Mood Ring, which dissects herself and the world around her through colour, through Self-Portrait as Autopsy and The founder of the Anatomical Venusians, the first support group for sex robots, speaks., to Troubleshooting: Your Bisexual™ Doesn't Want a Threesome, which explores the gross expectations and pressure largely cishet men put on their bisexual girlfriends and the assumptions of and vile ways many see bisexuals.
I cannot recommend seeing Sutton perform live and taking part in her workshops more strenuously, and I have no words to truly express how much reading this collection was an utter revelation that will stay with me.
If you are reading this before it is widely released in April, pre-order it now!
https://www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/p...
I've spent the day reading through this collection and I am truly blown away and beyond inspired by Ellora's writing. The poems hit like a radioactive pink truck through a touching picnic in a bucolic park leaving everything bloody, pink, mangled, and exquisite.
The collection purposely both deftly and abruptly swings from delicate, intimate explorations of the self, where she finds herself, and the frisson of new love and infatuation, through bittersweet and blackly comical explorations of relationships, sexuality, and the disappointment that is certain kinds of men, to haunting and visceral confrontations of the harm others, society, and herself inflicted upon herself and living with echoes and scars.
Every poem is livid with life and luminescence from the candy pink to burning black.
Sutton plays with form and voice in a multitude of fascinating and effective ways from Mood Ring, which dissects herself and the world around her through colour, through Self-Portrait as Autopsy and The founder of the Anatomical Venusians, the first support group for sex robots, speaks., to Troubleshooting: Your Bisexual™ Doesn't Want a Threesome, which explores the gross expectations and pressure largely cishet men put on their bisexual girlfriends and the assumptions of and vile ways many see bisexuals.
I cannot recommend seeing Sutton perform live and taking part in her workshops more strenuously, and I have no words to truly express how much reading this collection was an utter revelation that will stay with me.
If you are reading this before it is widely released in April, pre-order it now!
https://www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/p...
April 27, 2026
5 ⭐
"Jesus, how sad. To be depressed and cute and not even 100% sodium."
"The difference between a woman and a body of water is both how they may be entered and their capacity for revenge."
I don't read much poetry, but this collection is bloody brilliant, touching on feminism, grief, trauma, queerness and just how messed up life can be. The attitude and storytelling that flows between each poem in this work is hypnotic - I devoured this collection. I would highly recommend this to everyone, whether you regularly read poetry or not. 'On Cute' may be one of the best things I've ever read.
"Jesus, how sad. To be depressed and cute and not even 100% sodium."
"The difference between a woman and a body of water is both how they may be entered and their capacity for revenge."
I don't read much poetry, but this collection is bloody brilliant, touching on feminism, grief, trauma, queerness and just how messed up life can be. The attitude and storytelling that flows between each poem in this work is hypnotic - I devoured this collection. I would highly recommend this to everyone, whether you regularly read poetry or not. 'On Cute' may be one of the best things I've ever read.
July 14, 2026
Fave poems:
1. Concierge
2. Cruel Beach
3. On Cute
4. What I Wish I Had Known
5. This Poem Is About the Douche Bag Who Dumped Me a Week Before Christmas
6. Some Jokes Are Only Funny When I Tell Them
7. Troubleshooting: Your Bisexual Girlfriend Doesn’t Want a Threesome
8. ____, This Poem Is a Warning
9. How Can I Be Both Trough and Orgasm?
10. Medea
11. Did It Hurt?
12. Marina and Ulay
13. Ars Poetica
14. Some Advice
15. What If It’s Hereditary???
1. Concierge
2. Cruel Beach
3. On Cute
4. What I Wish I Had Known
5. This Poem Is About the Douche Bag Who Dumped Me a Week Before Christmas
6. Some Jokes Are Only Funny When I Tell Them
7. Troubleshooting: Your Bisexual Girlfriend Doesn’t Want a Threesome
8. ____, This Poem Is a Warning
9. How Can I Be Both Trough and Orgasm?
10. Medea
11. Did It Hurt?
12. Marina and Ulay
13. Ars Poetica
14. Some Advice
15. What If It’s Hereditary???
June 18, 2026
'I think I might be Jesus. I suffer like Jesus did.'
just incredible. insane and incredible. through so many poems i got to see myself, the way i think and perceive things, including this messed up body, this messed up femme existence (don't know how else to call it). no words will ever do this collection justice.
just incredible. insane and incredible. through so many poems i got to see myself, the way i think and perceive things, including this messed up body, this messed up femme existence (don't know how else to call it). no words will ever do this collection justice.
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July 9, 2026I loved this. This little collection just grabbed me by the throat right away and never let go. Sutton’s diction and imagery are razor sharp, and I love that she never sacrificed meaning for language. It’s girly (dare I say bratty?), incisive, and unflinching in its exploration of the body, the feminine, rape culture and misogyny. Just amazing.
April 19, 2026
I really enjoyed reading this. Very vivid in imagery.
August 18, 2026
A glittering, pastel, gristly achievement of a collection.
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