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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

View the trailers for each book here:

Intrigued? Click the image below to buy the whole set

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 Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes

No one asked, but I went. To the coppiced holt beyond / the manor.

Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes

£8.00

edited by Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone

Do poets make good detectives? Find out, as we follow their feats of deduction across ten wildly varied accounts of mystery and murder. See them soften the tight lips of witnesses, squeeze the hearts of suspects and wrestle with the muddledness of the inner life exposed. Watch for their subtle skill, but also for the all-too-human weaknesses and maddening contradictions that all honest poetry (and all good detective fiction) holds up, glintingly, to the light…

72pp, 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.

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.

Famously fond of patterns, games and intrigue, poets are 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…

Contributors

G.B. Clarkson, Anne-Laure Coxam, Livia Franchini, Mathew Lyons, Helena Nelson, Luke Palmer, Ilse Pedler, Nathaniel Spain, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Erica Wright

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