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Obakarama

Various

Sidekick Books

Paperback

40pp

ISBN: 9780956416414

Poetry

Publication date: 1 September 2009

£5

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The second micro-anthology from Sidekick Books contains poems and artwork inspired by traditional Japanese monsters. The title is a portmanteau of ‘panorama’ and obakemono (お化け物), the Japanese word for a changed or perverted thing (with the prefix お denoting respect). Accordingly, there lurk within its pages long-necked and long-tongued demons, winged dogs, mysterious children hiding in umbrellas, amphibious tricksters, killer scarves, cloud apparitions and numerous other age-old horrors of myth and legend.