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Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service

The street they train on is the one / you’ve dawdled down in dreams…

Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service

£8.00

edited by Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone

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

74 in stock

Description

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

Poets are spies by nature. Nondescript these days, they’re subtle and ever-watchful. Shifty in their skins, you might say. They are practised at fleeing and giving pursuit, and quick to reach for a pen (which may conceal a poison dart). They keep eyes on one another, crossing paths in out-of-the-way places to exchange vital capsules of encoded information. Most importantly, they are experts at slipping the grip of rival operatives, at least one of whom is their own dark double. For a time, anyway. And when called out of retirement to do their bit – well, take any reticence with a pinch of cyanide salt…

Contributors

Alison Brackenbury, John Clegg, Michael Conley, Grace Ellis, Jac Harmon, Safa Maryam, Claire Orchard, Jess Richards, Robert Sheppard, Jeremy Wikeley

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Submissions Call: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service / Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae

For pity’s sake, will no one think of the poets? For our Ten Poets series, we’ve sent these poor creatures into so many perilous situations (vampires’ castles, pirate ships, lunar missions, crime scenes, you name it!), without training, protective equipment or even a necklace of garlic! Do we regret our actions? Apparently not, because we’re doing it again! This time we’re dispatching our adventurers to spy and be spirited away with Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service and Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae. Decorative The full call is here, so firm up your alias, gather your goblin fruit and join us in strange new realms…

Deadline: 28th February 2026

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