Published by Sidekick Books

Publicity contact: contact@sidekickbooks.com

     

Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts

Various

Sidekick Books

Paperback

72pp

ISBN: 9781909560338

Poetry

Publication date: 2 September 2024

£8

BUY NOW

In scenarios which recall the mid-20th-century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans – and more importantly, the existential fears such creatures embody – these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales tell of terrible confrontations in Brighton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ipswich, Liverpool, London, Newcastle, Reykjavík and Truro. Our poets are positioned as sentries, their lines and stanzas arrayed in sorcerous patterns of resistance. And while the beasts described may be somewhat figurative, somewhat fantastical, the dangers they represent are very real…