Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts
Language: English
Published by Sidekick Books, GB, 2024
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In scenarios which recall the mid-20th century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans - as well as the existential fears they continue to embody - these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales turn on terrible confrontations in modern metropolitan centres. The poets behind them are fighters, guardians - their lines and stanzas weapons of resistance. And while the beasts themselves may be somewhat figurative, somewhat fantastical, the danger they represent is sometimes very real indeed .
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- Title
- Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts
- Author
- Alice Willitts
- Publisher
- Sidekick Books, GB
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1909560332
- ISBN 13
- 9781909560338
- Item weight
- 120 grams
In scenarios which recall the mid-20th century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans – as well as the existential fears they continue to embody – these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales turn on terrible confrontations in modern metropolitan centres. The poets behind them are fighters, guardians – their lines and stanzas weapons of resistance. And while the beasts themselves may be somewhat figurative, somewhat fantastical, the danger they represent is sometimes very real indeed ...
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About the Author
Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born, London-based poet and voiceover, and one half of the team behind collaborative press Sidekick Books. Her work has been published by Salt and Happenstance, 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. Kirsten's latest collection, Hot Cockalorum, was published in 2022 by Guillemot Press.
From https://www.alicewillittspoet.uk: Alice is a writer, editor and plantswoman from the Fens. She is the author of Something Light Written (Elephant Press, 2023), Think Thing: an ecopoetry practice, (Elephant Press, 2021), With Love, (Live Canon, 2020) and Dear, (Magma, 2019). She runs The 57 Poetry Collective in Cambridge and is the editor of DIRT with Dialect Writers. She graduated with Distinction from the Creative Writing Poetry MA at UEA in 2018. She was shortlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize 2018 for the p0_EM experiment in fractal poetics. She collected climate rebel stories for Channel Mag and was delighted to co-edit Magma 78: Collaborations issue (Nov 2020). She believes in putting hope into action. She is a co-founder of On The Verge Cambridge actively increasing plants for pollinators throughout the city. River Cam Erasure is a protest poetry project raising awareness about damage to the Cam's chalk stream ecosystem. In Nov 2021 she was the grateful recipient of a DYCP grant from Art Council England to write her second collection. Calls To Me Longingly is forthcoming from Blue Diode Press in 2025.
From https://www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-open/3-poems-from-piddock-by-james-coghill: James Coghill is the author of Anteater (Goggles, 2018) and Piddock, and has had poems published in Blackbox Manifold, Datableed, and Tentacular, as well as in anthologies from Sidekick Books. His ongoing preoccupations include animal studies, ecology, and early modern literature. He currently teaches at a specialist SEMH school.
Kevin Reinhardt runs Vintage Poison Press. His debut collection was Welcome To Birdworld. He runs London's premier bingo-poetry-karaoke night, Bingo Master’s Breakout.
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