{"id":4588,"date":"2024-08-05T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T21:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/?page_id=4588"},"modified":"2024-09-01T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:20:12","slug":"ten-poets-giant-strange-beasts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/books\/ten-poets-giant-strange-beasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Poets Defend their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts<\/h1>

£<\/span>8.00<\/bdi><\/span><\/p>\n

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edited by Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving<\/p>\n

In scenarios which recall the mid-20th-century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans \u2013 and more importantly, the existential fears such creatures embody \u2013 these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales tell of terrible confrontations in Brighton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ipswich, Liverpool, London, Newcastle, Reykjav\u00edk 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…<\/p>\n

72pp, ISBN: 978-1-909560-33-8<\/p>\n

Please note: Due to customs issues, we can no longer ship directly to Europe. European friends, please order from our distributors at Inpress<\/a> or through your local bookshop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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