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Submissions Call! Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon

Hot on the heels of our first four Ten Poets titles, we’ve gotten all fired up for another one! Launch your best words our way for

Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon! If you’re not familiar with the Ten Poets series, each title dips into a beloved pop-culture theme, from murder mysteries to ghost stories to erotica to monster movies. We want you to think creatively and show us your own take on the subject each time. Do you discover something strange? Do you think about your life on Earth? Do you make it to the moon at all? Submissions should have the general character of a poem or poem-adjacent text, but they do not have to be straightforward lyric pieces. You could create a prose poem, vignette, short lyric essay – in fact, we encourage you to think in terms of longer, looser forms (up to 500 words). This follows the trend established over our last eight anthologies, which mixed and combined poetry with elements of essay, guidebook, puzzle, flash fiction and so on. For more visual pieces, please note that all pages will be printed in black and white, and will be in portrait format. Check out the submissions call for more information and FAQs, and feel free to email us with questions.

Deadline: 15 December

Ten Poets Series out now! Be haunted, challenged, intrigued and seduced!

Sidekick Books is proud to present the Ten Poets Series!

These four cross-genre books send poets cantering into unknown terrain: erotica, folklore and urban legends, murder mysteries and even kaiju monster movies!

Titles include:

Cover to 'Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts'. Etching of man holding up an arm as a mythical monster approaches.

In which 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.

Cover to 'Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story'. Etching of crowd surprised by a spectre.

In which 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…

In which our poets, fond of patterns, games and intrigue, and 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…

Front cover for Ten Poets Charm the Pants off Ten Historical Figures. A couple dancing in a vintage print.

In which our bards become time-travelling Nell Gwynnes, seeking and seducing historical crushes. Will they meet with ecstasy or agony? Slip inside to find out.

Featuring:

Kat Addis / Vasiliki Albedo / Nick Asbury / 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 / Sean Wai Keung / 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 / Alice Willitts / Erica Wright

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Covers for four books: Ten Poets Defend their Cities from Giant Strange Beasts, Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story, Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes and Ten Poets Charm the Pants off Ten Historical Figures.

Ten Poets Defend their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts

I don’t know how the trees got there. / The sky claps / and they all take / one step forward

Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts

£8.00

edited by Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving

In scenarios which recall the mid-20th-century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans – and more importantly, the existential fears such creatures embody – these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales tell of terrible confrontations in Brighton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ipswich, Liverpool, London, Newcastle, Reykjavík and Truro. Our poets are positioned as sentries, their lines and stanzas arrayed in sorcerous patterns of resistance. And while the beasts described may be somewhat figurative, somewhat fantastical, the dangers they represent are very real…

72pp, ISBN: 978-1-909560-33-8

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.

50 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 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.

Contributors

Kat Addis, Nick Asbury, James Coghill, Adam Crothers, Kym Deyn, Aaron Kent, Amy Jo Philip, Kevin Reinhardt, Sean Wai Keung, Alice Willitts

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Ten Poets Charm the Pants off Ten Historical Figures

If not, let me approach you / differently, measure our symmetry: the square / of you against the square of me.

Ten Poets Charm the Pants off Ten Historical Figures

£8.00

edited by Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving

Poets are famous rakes, seductresses and time travellers, are they not? Cast all doubt from your mind by taking in these ten tantalising accounts of extremely inter-generational flirtation, whereby prominent persons from history are left weak-kneed and willing. But is that all there is to it? Or are our poets, as poets tend to be, engaged in more than mere dalliance? Will they change the past forever, or vanish ecstatically into it?

62pp, ISBN: 978-1-909560-36-9

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.

48 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 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

 Vasiliki Albedo, Tom Bland, Helen Bowell, Penny Boxall, Matthew Caley, Swithun Cooper, Rachel Jeffcoat, Patrick Davidson Roberts, Imogen Robertson, Becky Varley-Winter

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