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.

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

Ten Poets Tell Their Favourite Ghost Story

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

Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes

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

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. 62pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-35-2

Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon

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

Ten Poets Prowl the Seas in Search of Plunder

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

Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire’s Castle

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

Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service

sees ten more poets recruited to covert operations, delivering coded messages to the reader. 68pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-42-0

Contributors

Kat Addis, Nick Asbury, Vasiliki Albedo, Sophie Blacklock, Tom Bland, Helen Bowell, Penny Boxall, Alison Brackenbury, Emma Brown, Jacob Burgess Rollo, Matthew Caley, Heather Chapman, Tim Tim Cheng, Emmy Clarke, G.B. Clarkson, John Clegg, James Coghill, Michael Conley, Swithun Cooper, Luigi Coppola, Anne-Laure Coxam, Adam Crothers, Al Crow, Abbie Day, Kym Deyn, Kat Dixon, Emma Du Toit, Matthias Mūnkey Ediger, Grace Ellis, Jen Feroze, Elizabeth Gibson, Giles Goodland, Jac Harmon, Jem K. Hubbard, Andy Jackson, Livia Franchini, Matthew Haigh, Rachel Jeffcoat, Aaron Kent, Mathew Lyons, Rowan Lyster, Nikki Marrone, Safa Maryam, Kate Moore, Nora Nadjarian, Alfie Nawaid, Helena Nelson, Claire Orchard, Rebecca Ostler, Abigail Ottley, Luke Palmer, Caleb Parkin, Megan Pattie, Ilse Pedler, Amy Jo Philip, Clare Pollard, Richard Price, Emma Reay, Kevin Reinhardt, Jess Richards, Patrick Davidson Roberts, Imogen Robertson, Lark Sabre, Freya Sacksen, Tom Sastry, Robert Sheppard, Dorian Shire, Candy Smellie, Danny Snelson, Nathaniel Spain, Catherine Spooner, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Róisín Tierney, Becky Varley-Winter, Sean Wai Keung, Jeremy Wikeley, Alice Willitts, James Womack, Erica Wright, Jerrold Yam