{"id":1986,"date":"2012-12-07T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2012\/12\/where-rockets-burn-through.html\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:11:59","slug":"where-rockets-burn-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2012\/12\/where-rockets-burn-through.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Rockets Burn Through!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9r1sgW9JS5c\/UMJJamH2HNI\/AAAAAAAAAH0\/5JM7bCSb1-U\/s1600\/DSCF1472.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9r1sgW9JS5c\/UMJJamH2HNI\/AAAAAAAAAH0\/5JM7bCSb1-U\/s320\/DSCF1472.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>If you&#8217;re stuck for a gift for the sci-fi fan in your life, and a slogan t-shirt isn&#8217;t going to cut it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/where-rockets-burn-through-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Penned in the Margins<\/a>&nbsp;might just have the answer.  <br \/><br \/>New anthology, <i>Where Rockets Burn Through: contemporary science fiction poems from the UK<\/i>, is not only beautifully designed (Sunstreaker and Wheeljack seem to think so, anyway) but also makes for a laser-firing, catsuit-sporting blast-off of a poetry mission.  <br \/><br \/>Jon and I pop up a few times inside (he re-jigs Catullus into space opera while I salivate over the precious meal from&nbsp;<i>Soylent Green<\/i>), alongside some seriously spark-spitting other writers.<br \/><br \/>Gifting poems to those who are usually more fond of box sets than tercets may seem like a risky gambit, but editor Russell Jones has picked a rich range of moreish work that, while intriguing and substantial, won&#8217;t alienate (apologies for that one) anyone coming to poetry afresh. Poetry has a knack of providing an off-kilter, probing new look at classic tropes and well-loved stories, and this is a real genre-zapper.<br \/><br \/><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/where-rockets-burn-through-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Where Rockets Burn Through: contemporary science fiction poems from the UK<\/a><\/i>&nbsp;is normally \u00a39.99 plus p&amp;p, but until 21 December, Penned are offering 20% off,so you can snaffle it for \u00a37.99 plus postage.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re stuck for a gift for the sci-fi fan in your life, and a slogan t-shirt isn&#8217;t going to cut it, Penned in the Margins&nbsp;might just have the answer. New anthology, Where Rockets Burn Through: contemporary science fiction poems from the UK, is not only beautifully designed (Sunstreaker and Wheeljack seem to think so, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2012\/12\/where-rockets-burn-through.html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where Rockets Burn Through!&#8221;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,645,501,396,643,460,461,644,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jon-stone","category-kirsten-irving","category-penned-in-the-margins","category-poems","category-poetry","category-russell-jones","category-sci-fi","category-science-fiction","category-tom-chivers","category-where-rockets-burn-through"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}