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Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service - Softcover

Edited By Jon Stone, Kirsten Irving

 
9781909560420: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service

Synopsis

Poets are, as a matter of fact, natural spies. Nondescript in appearance, they're quick, ever-watchful, and shifty in their skins. Practised at fleeing, and at giving pursuit. Likely to reach for a pen that fires a dart. Likely, too, to cross each other's paths in out-of-the-way places, and exchange some vital capsule of information. Most importantly, perhaps, they are experts at slipping the grip of a rival spymaster, who is their own dark double – for a time, at least. And when called out of retirement to do their bit – well, take any reticence with a pinch of salt...

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About the Authors

Jon Stone is a Derbyshire-born writer, editor and researcher. He won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and his debut collection, School of Forgery, (Salt, 2012) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He has written several shorter poetry books and a monograph, Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Videogames (DeGruyter, 2022). He teaches writing and publishing at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born, London-based poet and editor. Her work has been published by Salt, Happenstance and Guillemot, widely anthologised and thrown out of a helicopter. She has won the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, judged competitions, and taught courses on folklore in poetry, and currently edits for First Story.

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