Cover to 'Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts'. Etching of group of Victorian men examining evidence.

Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes

£8.00

edited by Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone

Do poets make good detectives? Find out, as we follow their feats of deduction across ten wildly varied accounts of mystery and murder. See them soften the tight lips of witnesses, squeeze the hearts of suspects and wrestle with the muddledness of the inner life exposed. Watch for their subtle skill, but also for the all-too-human weaknesses and maddening contradictions that all honest poetry (and all good detective fiction) holds up, glintingly, to the light…

72pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-35-2

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Description

10 Poets is a series of books, each of which sets a decet of poets on a new course, turning their skills to new and surprising ends. Each title in the series takes an existing genre of storytelling and blends in poetic elements. Whether they’re slaying kaiju monsters, spooking us out, solving murders or seducing icons from history, our game bards shapeshift, time-travel and stoke the campfire in their own poetic ways.

Famously fond of patterns, games and intrigue, poets are drawn to mysteries. Open the case files within and witness bodies in the forest, brutalised landscapes and nuns covering up more than usual. Less Randall & Hopkirk, more Rimbaud & Hopkins, if you ask us…

Contributors

G.B. Clarkson, Anne-Laure Coxam, Livia Franchini, Mathew Lyons, Helena Nelson, Luke Palmer, Ilse Pedler, Nathaniel Spain, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Erica Wright

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