{"id":3112,"date":"2018-10-04T23:44:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2018-10-04T23:50:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:50:06","slug":"national-poetry-day-roundup-catullus-guardian-headbooks-special-offer-cheeky-imp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2018\/10\/national-poetry-day-roundup-catullus-guardian-headbooks-special-offer-cheeky-imp.html\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Day roundup: Catullus in the Guardian, Headbooks special offer and a cheeky Imp!"},"content":{"rendered":"National Poetry Day has been and gone and delighted us all once again. We were thrilled that <a href=\"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/books\/bad-kid-catullus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bad Kid Catullus<\/em><\/a> (thus far the only Sidekick title to receive a Parental Advisory sticker) was featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/oct\/03\/top-10-poetry-anthologies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Guardian<\/a> as one of their top 10 anthologies!<p>\r\n\r\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they said:\r\n<blockquote>Stone and Irving, the two poets responsible for Sidekick Books \u2013 a tiny publisher specialising in irresistible anthologies that double as compendia of jokes, puzzles, teases, weird lists and doodle pages \u2013 outdid themselves last year with this anthology of new and old poems inspired by ancient Rome\u2019s filthiest wordsmith, Catullus. Certain concrete poems are X-rated, but if acrobatic acrostics and saucy experiments with form tickle your fancy, this is just the book for a weekend of Latin love.<\/blockquote><p><p>\r\nTo celebrate, we&#8217;ve extended our National Poetry Day sale until the end of the day on<strong>\u00a05th October 2018<\/strong>. Get in quick and get <a href=\"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/product\/sidekick-headbooks-set-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four Headbooks for the price of three<\/a>! Just \u00a330 for four fizzing, bubbling interactive treasures!<p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3106\" src=\"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headbooks-series-1-twitter-image-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headbooks-series-1-twitter-image-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headbooks-series-1-twitter-image-250x181.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headbooks-series-1-twitter-image-400x290.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headbooks-series-1-twitter-image-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headbooks-series-1-twitter-image.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headbooks-series-1-twitter-image-450x326.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headbooks-series-1-twitter-image-600x435.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><p>\r\n\r\nLastly, Sidekick&#8217;s own <strong>Kirsten Irving<\/strong> was chosen to represent her home county of Lincolnshire in the BBC&#8217;s Local Poets celebration. The project, organised by the Forward Arts Foundation in collaboration with the BBC, saw 12 poets from across England writing on the theme of <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpoetryday.co.uk\/bbc-local-poets-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poetry for a Change<\/a>.<p>\r\n\r\nHere&#8217;s the video for K&#8217;s poem, <strong>&#8216;The Lincoln Imp&#8217;s Birthday&#8217;<\/strong>.<p>\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e26eX54gH7w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><p>\r\n\r\n<strong>AND FINALLY!<\/strong> The fun doesn&#8217;t end just because NPD is over. Stay tuned to our Twitter <strong>@SidekickBooks<\/strong> and our Instagram @<strong>sidekickbooks<\/strong> over the next few days for a robotastic competition. We can say no more for now&#8230;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Poetry Day has been and gone and delighted us all once again. We were thrilled that Bad Kid Catullus (thus far the only Sidekick title to receive a Parental Advisory sticker) was featured in the Guardian as one of their top 10 anthologies! Here&#8217;s what they said: Stone and Irving, the two poets responsible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2018\/10\/national-poetry-day-roundup-catullus-guardian-headbooks-special-offer-cheeky-imp.html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Poetry Day roundup: Catullus in the Guardian, Headbooks special offer and a cheeky Imp!&#8221;<\/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":[748,126,39],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bad-kid-catullus","tag-national-poetry-day","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3118,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}