{"id":1771,"date":"2016-02-03T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:09:52","slug":"contagious-creativity-poetry-london-and-new-welsh-review-on-over-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2016\/02\/contagious-creativity-poetry-london-and-new-welsh-review-on-over-the-line.html\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Contagious creativity&#8221; \u2013 Poetry London and New Welsh Review on Over The Line"},"content":{"rendered":"This just in! <i><b>New Welsh Review<\/b><\/i> and <b><i>Poetry London<\/i><\/b> love Sidekick&#8217;s poetry comics anthology&nbsp;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidekickbooks.com\/overtheline.php\" target=\"_blank\">Over The Line<\/a>!<\/i><br \/><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"\" width=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/div><i><br \/><\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/poetrylondon.co.uk\/product\/spring-2016-issue-83\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Poetry London<\/b><\/a><\/i>&#8216;s <b>Julia Bird<\/b> describes the anthology as <b><span style=\"color: magenta;\">&#8220;a book bursting with contagious creativity, a book offering a truly stimulating combination of art and analysis.&#8221;<\/span><\/b><br \/><b><span style=\"color: magenta;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b>She also praises the work of editors&nbsp;<b>Chrissy Williams<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>Tom Humberstone<\/b>, saying:<br \/><br \/><b><span style=\"color: magenta;\">&#8220;The tone is instructive and inspiring; it makes you want to take scissors and glue to your own Marvell words and Marvel art to see how image, text, space and silence can be recombined to create and uncover meaning.&#8221;<\/span><\/b><br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/poetrylondon.co.uk\/product\/spring-2016-issue-83\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full review in Issue 83<\/a>&nbsp;(which also features poetry by the marvellous Mark Waldron).<br \/><br \/><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>The praise keeps coming, as <b>Nicky Arscott<\/b>, writing for <i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newwelshreview.com\/list-review.php\" target=\"_blank\">New Welsh Review<\/a><\/b><\/i>, finds <i>Over The Line <\/i><span style=\"color: magenta;\"><b>&#8220;visually exquisite, intellectually stimulating&#8221;<\/b><\/span> and says it <b><span style=\"color: magenta;\">&#8220;offers a wide-reaching introduction to the poetry comics genre.&#8221;<\/span><\/b><br \/><div><br \/><\/div><div>She adds that<br \/><div style=\"color: magenta; display: inline !important; font-weight: bold;\">&nbsp;&#8220;this book&nbsp;<\/div><span style=\"color: magenta; font-weight: bold;\">succeeds in making poetry playful, and it elevates the status of the comic through&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: magenta; font-weight: bold;\">encouraging us to appraise it on the same level as we would the poetry.&#8221;<\/span><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The full text of the review is open to subscribers only, which is an excellent excuse to explore new Welsh writing.<\/div><div><br \/><\/div>Thank you to Julia and Nicky for the fantastic in-depth, insightful reviews. Comics poetry fever is upon us!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This just in! New Welsh Review and Poetry London love Sidekick&#8217;s poetry comics anthology&nbsp;Over The Line!Poetry London&#8216;s Julia Bird describes the anthology as &#8220;a book bursting with contagious creativity, a book offering a truly stimulating combination of art and analysis.&#8221;She also praises the work of editors&nbsp;Chrissy Williams&nbsp;and&nbsp;Tom Humberstone, saying:&#8220;The tone is instructive and inspiring; it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2016\/02\/contagious-creativity-poetry-london-and-new-welsh-review-on-over-the-line.html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Contagious creativity&#8221; \u2013 Poetry London and New Welsh Review on Over The Line&#8221;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,421,402,422,420,407,411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chrissy-williams","category-new-welsh-review","category-over-the-line","category-poetry-london","category-press","category-reviews","category-tom-humberstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}