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.
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.
72pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-33-8
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…
60pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-34-5
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…
72pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-35-2
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.
62pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-35-2
sees our intrepid poets set off for the stars, testing their bodies, their resolve and their navigation skills. From musical legends to mythology to Mare Frigoris and back, they’re on a mission to bring back the finest lunar verse.
60pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-39-0
sees ten more poets set out with cutlasses and compasses, high spirits and troubled pasts to chart depths unknown.
60pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-40-6
sees ten more poets venture, nightsticks, nerves and desires aloft, through the corridors and catacombs of a mysterious host’s lair.
64pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-41-3
Contributors
Kat Addis, Nick Asbury, Vasiliki Albedo, Sophie Blacklock, Tom Bland, Helen Bowell, Penny Boxall, Emma Brown, Jacob Burgess Rollo, Matthew Caley, Heather Chapman, Tim Tim Cheng, Emmy Clarke, G.B. Clarkson, James Coghill, Swithun Cooper, Luigi Coppola, Anne-Laure Coxam, Adam Crothers, Al Crow, Abbie Day, Kym Deyn, Kat Dixon, Emma Du Toit, Matthias Mūnkey Ediger, Jen Feroze, Elizabeth Gibson, Giles Goodland, Jem K. Hubbard, Andy Jackson, Livia Franchini, Matthew Haigh, Rachel Jeffcoat, Aaron Kent, Mathew Lyons, Rowan Lyster, Nikki Marrone, Kate Moore, Nora Nadjarian, Alfie Nawaid, Helena Nelson, Rebecca Ostler, Abigail Ottley, Luke Palmer, Caleb Parkin, Megan Pattie, Ilse Pedler, Amy Jo Philip, Clare Pollard, Richard Price, Emma Reay, Kevin Reinhardt, Patrick Davidson Roberts, Imogen Robertson, Lark Sabre, Freya Sacksen, Tom Sastry, Dorian Shire, Candy Smellie, Danny Snelson, Nathaniel Spain, Catherine Spooner, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Róisín Tierney, Becky Varley-Winter, Sean Wai Keung, Alice Willitts, James Womack, Erica Wright, Jerrold Yam
