{"id":2548,"date":"2017-07-28T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2017-07-28T13:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:56:32","slug":"ace-news-headbooks-and-making-a-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2017\/07\/ace-news-headbooks-and-making-a-splash.html\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE news, Headbooks and making a splash!"},"content":{"rendered":"Sidekick Books<\/strong> is extremely happy to announce that Arts Council England<\/strong> have given us funding to produce our first four Headbooks<\/strong>! This<\/span><\/span>\u00a0thrilling and unusual set of titles aims to introduce poetry to new audiences through play, rich visuals and interactive elements.\r\n\r\nHuge thanks to ACE for their generosity in supporting our work. Sidekick’s collaborative, multi-author focus\u00a0means our titles fall outside the guidelines of many prizes, so ACE’s support enables us to carry on mixing, meddling and commissioning strange creations.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nThe Headbooks series is a genre-busting set of gift books blending visual poetry with games and activities, and bringing poetry out of the corner of the bookshop, into the light. Our first Headbook, due out next month, is Aquanauts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>, a twisting, turning journey under the water. Featuring calligrams, colour pages, exercises and creative prompts, it’s a deep dive into the unknown and a feast for the senses. Here’s a taster:\r\n\r\n
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Aquanauts cover, featuring enigmatic model El Aguador<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nWe’ll be following up this aquatic adventure with a journey through time to the Roman empire, to meet Bad Kid Catullus<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>, an explosive set of new Catullus translations, riffs and reactions, mixing collage with frottage. That’ll be due in September.\r\n\r\nFinally, in 2018, we’ll be issuing open calls for submissions for The Sidekick Book of Sidekicks<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, a tribute to the shadows that follow heroes and villains, and No, Robot, No!<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, an updated, multiplayer version of K and Jon’s debut joint pamphlet.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidekick Books is extremely happy to announce that Arts Council England have given us funding to produce our first four Headbooks! This\u00a0thrilling and unusual set of titles aims to introduce poetry to new audiences through play, rich visuals and interactive elements. Huge thanks to ACE for their generosity in supporting our work. Sidekick’s collaborative, multi-author … Continue reading “ACE news, Headbooks and making a splash!”<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[747,158,748,752,39,751,749,750],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aquanauts","tag-arts-council-england","tag-bad-kid-catullus","tag-no-robot-no","tag-poetry","tag-sidekick-books-of-sidekicks","tag-vispo","tag-visual-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","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=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}