Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire’s Castle

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The invitation arrived folded in midnight. / No envelope, just a note pressed to my chest: /

You’ve been chosen. Glow accordingly…

Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire's Castle

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Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire’s Castle

£8.00

edited by Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone

“Enter freely and of your own will!” After a hellish coach ride up a mountain pass, each of our ten poets crosses a threshold – perhaps a little dishevelled. But the master of the castle remains oddly reclusive; is this stop-off or destination, sanctuary or trap? Move through the book as you would a candlelit corridor: every poem here is an unlocked chamber door, behind which lies mirrors, dust, and the temptation of the flesh…

64pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-41-3

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.

67 pre-orders available

SKU: 10PVAMPIRE Categories: 10 Poets, Books, Folklore & Myth, History & Satire, Uncategorized Tags: 10 Poets, erotica, horror, LGBTQIA+, mythology, paranormal, queer, romantasy, vampires

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

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.

Contributors

Sophie Blacklock, Lark Sabre, Heather Chapman, Emmy Clarke, Nikki Marrone, Kate Moore, Megan Pattie, Dorian Shire, Candy Smellie, Catherine Spooner

Submissions call: Vampires and Pirates!

What’s that on the horizon? Is it a bat? A ship? No, it’s our double open call for the next two titles in our Ten Poets series! Launch your best words our way for:

Ten Poets Prowl the Seas in Search of Plunder and Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire’s Castle Decorative

If you’re not familiar with the Ten Poets series, each title dips into a beloved pop-culture theme, from murder mysteries to ghost stories to erotica to monster movies. We want you to think creatively and show us your own take on the subject each time. Do you discover something strange? Do you think about your life on Earth? Do you make it to the moon at all? Submissions should have the general character of a poem or poem-adjacent text, but they do not have to be straightforward lyric pieces. You could create a prose poem, vignette, short lyric essay – in fact, we encourage you to think in terms of longer, looser forms (up to 500 words). This follows the trend established over our last eight anthologies, which mixed and combined poetry with elements of essay, guidebook, puzzle, flash fiction and so on. For more visual pieces, please note that all pages will be printed in black and white, and will be in portrait format.

Check out the submissions call for more information and FAQs, and feel free to email us with questions.

Deadline: 18 June

Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon

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The instruments were waiting in the dome / flight cases cold as tombstones in the darkness…

Cover of Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon, featuring black-and-white illustrations of space.

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Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon

£8.00

edited by Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving

Release date: 30 April 2025

Long before mankind went to the Moon, we dreamt of it – dreamt of what it’s like to be there, or thereabouts, on the surface or just beyond the exosphere, in every medium from cinema to comic strip.

This book sees ten new cosmonauts resurrect that most rickety, most celestial of technologies – the lyric poem – as a means of reaching out again, further and more fervently than ever before, in a space race from which some may never return. Are they prepared for what they’ll find out there, amid cold craters, micrometeorite showers and radioactive crust?

60pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-39-0

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.

94 pre-orders available

SKU: 10PMOON Categories: 10 Poets, Books, Cinema & Other Media, Cross-Genre, Folklore & Myth, Science and Technology, Science Fiction Tags: 10 Poets, folklore, mythology, poetry, space, space science

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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 Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon sees 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.

Contributors

Al Crow, Abbie Day, Kat Dixon, Andy Jackson, Elizabeth Gibson, Giles Goodland, Richard Price, Emma Reay, Freya Sacksen, Jerrold Yam

Ten Poets Defend their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts

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I don’t know how the trees got there. / The sky claps / and they all take / one step forward

Front cover to 'Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts'.A volcanic scene in which a man is holding up an arm against an oncoming monster.

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.

48 in stock

Categories: 10 Poets, Cinema & Other Media, Cross-Genre, History & Satire Tags: 10 Poets, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, ecopoetry, Edinburgh, environmental, Glasgow, Ipswich, Liverpool, London, monsters, mythology, poetry, Reykjavik, storytelling, Truro

Description

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

Tag: mythology