Ten Poets series – Set of Four Anthologies
£24.00
edited by Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving
Sometimes the hero you need is not the one you expect. In these four cross-genre books, we’ve handed poets wild new assignments: defending their cities from monsters, spinning ghost stories, solving grisly crimes and seducing figures from history. And being poets, they’ve gone about their missions in intriguing and offbeat ways…
In this set:
Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts
72pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-33-8
Ten Poets Tell Their Favourite Ghost Story
60pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-34-5
Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes
72pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-35-2
Ten Poets Charm the Pants off Ten Historical Figures
62pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-35-2
Please note: Due to customs issues, we can no longer ship directly to Europe. European friends, please order from our distributors at Inpress or through your local bookshop.
42 in stock
Description
10 Poets is a series of four 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.
Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts
takes its cue from the nuclear anxieties of the Godzilla franchise. Our fearless poets battle monsters in many forms, from raging waters to gentrification to music icons gone very bad indeed. Grab whatever weapon you have to hand and join their party for the showdown.
Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story
sees our poets dance from classic fable to urban legend, taking in a little techno-horror along the way. Eerie tales are made all the more uncanny by poetic cadence, urging you on, down that path, nudging you further through that cursed book, tempting you to repeat that name once more in the mirror…
Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes
shows the famous fondness poets have for patterns, games and intrigue. 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…
Ten Poets Charm the Pants off Ten Historical Figures
sees our bards become time-travelling Nell Gwynnes, seeking and seducing historical crushes. Will they meet with ecstasy or agony? Slip inside to find out.
Contributors
Kat Addis, Nick Asbury, Vasiliki Albedo, Tom Bland, Helen Bowell, Penny Boxall, Matthew Caley, Tim Tim Cheng, G.B. Clarkson, James Coghill, Swithun Cooper, Anne-Laure Coxam, Adam Crothers, Kym Deyn, Jen Feroze, Livia Franchini, Matthew Haigh, Rachel Jeffcoat, Aaron Kent, Mathew Lyons, Rowan Lyster, Nora Nadjarian, Helena Nelson, Luke Palmer, Caleb Parkin, Ilse Pedler, Amy Jo Philip, Clare Pollard, Kevin Reinhardt, Patrick Davidson Roberts, Imogen Robertson, Tom Sastry, Danny Snelson, Nathaniel Spain, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Róisín Tierney, Becky Varley-Winter, Sean Wai Keung, Alice Willitts, Erica Wright
