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Nioko wants the child to stop talking; her feverish body / wants to leave the bed and leap into cool, clear water…

Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story

£8.00

edited by Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving

As Emily Dickinson put it, “One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—” When a poet turns to the subject of ghosts, it’s as much conjuration, or spectral evocation, as it is a story. To that end, we have gathered here ten in one slim book — ten possible summoning spells, primed to plant sounds and images deep in the ear and eye. Would you risk reading them aloud? Be careful — repetition is a kind of incantation. And the ghosts in these lyric tales are as angry as they are mournful as they are cold…

60pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-34-5

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.

44 in stock

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.

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…

Contributors

Tim Tim Cheng, Jen Feroze, Matthew Haigh, Rowan Lyster, Nora Nadjarian, Caleb Parkin, Clare Pollard, Tom Sastry, Danny Snelson, Róisín Tierney

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