Join us for a double lift-off as ten 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.
LAUNCH ONE: ROYAL HOLLOWAY SMALL PRESS TAKEOVER, 29TH APRIL 2025
We’re joining the wonderful Dr Briony Hughes to take part in Royal Holloway’s Small Press Takeover series. There’ll be readings, a Q&A and many, many Moons!
TIME: 6.30pm-8pm
ADDRESS: Stewart House Room, Senate House Library, London WC1E 7HU
NEAREST TUBE: Russell Square (Piccadilly Line)
COST: FREE
Readers: Al Crow, Kat Dixon, Andy Jackson, Elizabeth Gibson, Giles Goodland, Jerrold Yam and more!
LAUNCH TWO: WATERSTONES CAMBRIDGE, 6TH MAY 2025
Image: bbc.co.uk
After that, we’re heading east to Waterstones Cambridge for some high-flying tales in low-lying regions!
COST: £8 Admission(£5 Waterstones Cardholders)OR £10 Book and Ticket
READERS: Kat Dixon, Freya Sacksen, Richard Price, Emma Reay and more!
FREE VERSE BOOK & MAGAZINE FAIR 2025
And next Saturday, 26 April, Sidekick Books will be at the Free Verse Book and Magazine Fair in London!
Come and visit us at the Sidekick stall for early-release copies of Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon, or grab a bargain from our slightly-scuffed £10 kilo sale!
Click the image for more info, or visit the Poetry Society’s Free Verse page.
Look forward to seeing you, on earth or in outer space!
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.
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
We’re joining the wonderful Dr Briony Hughes to take part in Royal Holloway’s Small Press Takeover series. There’ll be readings, a Q&A and many, many Moons!
Look forward to seeing you, on earth or in outer space! 
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