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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 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.

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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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RICHARD WATT / Betobeto-san

Richard Watt

Betobeto-san

Monsoons
in the prefecture
mark my wild return:
a prismatic fellow,
children call me spring-heel,
padding softly
like a fall into a well
of old mouse bones.

Vines under foot
keep me sheriff ’d.
No knives or horns
under my hat, as I follow
fifteen feet behind and to the side,
a hook, adhesive mister –
I only hope you know
where I am going.

Art by Jd

Richard Watt‘s debut collection, The Golem, is available from Holdfire Press. He lives in Angus, Scotland, where he is a press manager for the Scottish Parliament.

Jd is a Seattle-based artist. He started drawing Japanese folklore characters in the early nineties and continues to contribute pages to his never-to-be-released book as new ideas and stories reach his ears. ehime.deviantart.com

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