Kirsten Irving, Author at Sidekick Books

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 11 – Roberta James

Clank, rattle, creak! Something is firing up, stirring its cogs and rumbling into action. It’s Day 11 of the Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar, and Roberta James is our resident engineer, keen to show us her latest contraption. Read her pistoning poem here.

Follow Roberta on Twitter @RobertaWriter to see more of her fantastical inventions!

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 10 – Matt Haigh

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
Rain, rain, go away
I can’t stand the rain / on my window

Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 10 and the incomparable Matt Haigh brings us a damp, misty window through which to gaze. Rain, tears, vodka or melted snowballs? Read on and decide…

Find out more about Matt Haigh at https://matthewhaighpoetry.wordpress.com/ or follow him on Twitter @MattHaighPoetry.

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 9 – Rose Cook

Day 9 of the Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar, and in festive style, Rose Cook is dashing through Adland. Swimming through commercial cavalcades, her poem is a glimpse through a window on Madison Avenue, or an album of ad breaks caught when passing a wreath-decked living room door.

Find out more about Rose at https://rosecook.wordpress.com/.

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 8 – Phil Monks

Day 8 of the Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar, and Phil Monks is here with a handy how-to guide. How to what, we don’t rightly know, but how about we try following his cryptic rules, and see what emerges?

Find out more about Phil at https://philipmonks.com/ and follow him on Twitter @PhilipMonks

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 7 – Chrissy Williams

It’s Day 7 and we’re ditching the smog of London for the bright lights of Las Vegas, according to our tour guide, Chrissy Williams.

At least, that’s what it looks like from our tiny airplane window. Only something down there doesn’t look quite like it does in the movies…

For more Chrissy goodness, follow her on Twitter @chrissywilliams and visit her den at http://chrissywilliams.blogspot.co.uk/p/hullo.html.

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 6 – Desmond Swords

Welcome back! Our soothsayer for Day 6 of our Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar is Desmond Swords.

Today’s poem is staring at the skies, trying to makes sense of the fragments above. Signs, portents, flashes in the night, but only ever a partial glimpse through the telescope.

You can find out more about Desmond at http://desmondswords.blogspot.co.uk/.

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 5 – Andrea Mbarushimana

Day Five, and the Aperture Advent Calendar sees our guest poet Andrea Mbarushimana tiptoeing through – what – a hotel, a boarding school, a convent? We can’t say for sure, but we know we can’t linger. Take what you can learn and scurry on. Yyou are being watched.

Talking of learning, to find out more about Andrea, follow her on Twitter @andymba24 or sneak across to www.andrea-mbarushimana.com.

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 4 – Linda Black

We’re looking up and squinting into the sun today as the intrepid Linda Black takes over the Aperture Advent Calendar!

Something is shifting before our eyes in this aperture. Just as clouds change from dragons to cranes, this pinhole-camera poem gives us fragments drifting in and out.

Follow @LindaRoseBlack to learn more about today’s glass-gazer.

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 3 – Rishi Dastidar

Day Three of our brazen Aperture Calendar, and it’s the turn of Rishi Dastidar.

Rishi has clearly been eavesdropping somewhere big. We’re thinking Albert-Hall big, from the snatches of conversation we can make out..

Good Patrons, Day Three!

Follow Rishi Dastidar on Twitter to learn more about his work.

Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day 2 – Peg Duthie

Day Two of our Aperture Calendar and it’s the turn of the wonderful Peg Duthie!

So it’s a slightly more heated drawing room we’re glimpsing into today. There’s a somewhat scandalous argument taking place. If only we could linger a little longer outside…

Find out more about today’s Advent Gallivanter at nashpanache.com and on Twitter at @Zirconium.

Enjoy Day Two!

Author: Kirsten Irving