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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

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 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

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Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon!

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.

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