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Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae

When they laughed, flowers forgot their colours. / When they bowed, the ground answered.…

Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae

£8.00

edited by Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone

Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae sees ten more poets spirited away to other worlds, returning to tell their tales of pixies, elves, faeries and goblins.

64pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-43-7

73 in stock

Description

10 Poets is a series of books in which poets are invited to turn their skills to new and surprising ends.

The goblin men are here again, with their shrill repeated cry: “Come buy, come buy!” And the pixies, the pooka, the gnomes and naiads, the boggarts and brownies – European folklore fizzes with tales of wicked and winsome creatures of the woods. And while in many ways their power has waned – what is there for them in the urban, post-industrial, rubbish-strewn present? – our susceptibility to it has not. Those who go in search risk never quite returning, or coming back changed…

Contributors

Rowan Carteret, Tim Dooley, Kate Falvey, Alec Finlay, Naomi Foyle, Rosie Hart, Dominic Lyne, Wendy Manning, Yvonne Reddick, Natalie Shaw

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Submissions Call: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service / Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae

For pity’s sake, will no one think of the poets? For our Ten Poets series, we’ve sent these poor creatures into so many perilous situations (vampires’ castles, pirate ships, lunar missions, crime scenes, you name it!), without training, protective equipment or even a necklace of garlic! Do we regret our actions? Apparently not, because we’re doing it again! This time we’re dispatching our adventurers to spy and be spirited away with Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service and Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae. Decorative The full call is here, so firm up your alias, gather your goblin fruit and join us in strange new realms…

Deadline: 28th February 2026

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