London/Cambridge-based poetry press Editors: @KoftheTriffids and @shotscarecrow. Find us on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/sidekickboo…
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19 May 2025
Dropping by Twitter to announce a SUBMISSIONS EXTENSION. Want to be part of the Ten Poets series? Fancy playing the part of Jacquotte Delahaye or Jonathan Harker? We've extended our latest call for submissions to 19 June. Share far and wide!
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23 Jun 2025
This week's Meg's Monday Muse celebrates the Day of the Seafarer, with titles from @SidekickBooks, @daregalepress, @ShearsmanBooks, @BanipalMagazine, and @PenguinUKBooks. Set sail- click the link! mailchi.mp/poetrybooksociety…
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14 Jul 2025
We're moon-gazing in Meg's Monday Muse this week, in celebration of International Moon Day, with cosmic titles from @panmacmillan, @TheBraag, @SidekickBooks, @JonathanCape, and @OneworldNews. Find out more here: mailchi.mp/poetrybooksociety…
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19 Jun 2025
Poets still on Twitter! It's the last day for Sidekick submissions. At midnight the Dutchman sails and the Count rises from his coffin.
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10 Jun 2025
Summer #poetry events in #Cambridge. It's the 50th anniversary of the first Cambridge Poetry Festival, so we're promoting a whole slew of readings and events.
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19 May 2025
Dropping by Twitter to announce a SUBMISSIONS EXTENSION. Want to be part of the Ten Poets series? Fancy playing the part of Jacquotte Delahaye or Jonathan Harker? We've extended our latest call for submissions to 19 June. Share far and wide!
sidekickbooks.com/booklab/su…
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11 May 2025
Lovely to receive my copy of Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon ☺️ It means a lot to me to share this poem about my experience of PCOS and changes in my body and trying to see them as neutral and not negative. I hope you enjoy it ❤️
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2 May 2025
A very special evening at @RoyalHolloway launching Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon with @SidekickBooks and @brihughespoet ☺️ It was lovely to meet my fellow contributors, chat a lot, and share our space-themed poems 🪐
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11 Mar 2025
Kirsty and Jon will be hosting -- online *and* in-person -- tonight's Future Karaoke: Memories and Dreams, an evening of poems and stories based on time travel tales. bit.ly/futurekaraok... to book your free Zoom tickets, or just come along if you're in Cambridge!
ALT Future Karaoke: Memories and Dreams. A quickfire evening of new poems and stories, Tuesday 11th March, 6.30-8.00pm. Free entry. At the Recital Hall, ARU.
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19 Feb 2025
Very excited to be travelling to the dark side of the moon with @SidekickBooks in their new anthology! 😊 My poem explores experiences with polycystic ovaries and body image, with love running through it ❤️
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27 Dec 2024
Good luck on your solo subnautical salvage quest, Morgan! :-D
26 Dec 2024
Got this from a friend - excited to destroy it! Aquanauts from @SidekickBooks, a tentacular nightmare that suits me to a T.
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6 Dec 2024
We're heading back to our old stomping ground of #Norwich this Sat to join a host of indie presses for the City of Lit Publishing Fair at Dragon Hall, run by @WritersCentre ! Sort 2 x Secret Santa w/ our £10 kilo sale! 📚⚖️🎄 #poetry
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25 Nov 2024
We'll be hosting the ninth Future Karaoke this week at ARU in Cambridge! Join us for new poems and stories on supernatural beings from the 17th century Denham tracts.
25 Nov 2024
This coming Wednesday! Back-to-back book launch and Supernatural Beings night, from 5.30 at ARU. The beginning of a run of great literary get-togethers. You can even join us for Future Karaoke via Zoom:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-ka…
ALT Launch flyer. Reads: Cambridge Writing Centre, Book Launch, Future Perfect Tense: An Anthology of New Writing, 27th November, 17.30-18.30pm, LAB 028, ARU, Free entry, Readings/drinks, (Right before Future Karaoke: Supernatural Beings).
ALT Future Karaoke poster: Supernatural Beings. A quickfire evening of new poems and stories. Wednesday 27 November, 6.30-8.00pm. Free entry, at ARU, LAB 028. Book at bit.ly/futurekaraoke9.
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25 Nov 2024
This coming Wednesday! Back-to-back book launch and Supernatural Beings night, from 5.30 at ARU. The beginning of a run of great literary get-togethers. You can even join us for Future Karaoke via Zoom:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-ka…
ALT Launch flyer. Reads: Cambridge Writing Centre, Book Launch, Future Perfect Tense: An Anthology of New Writing, 27th November, 17.30-18.30pm, LAB 028, ARU, Free entry, Readings/drinks, (Right before Future Karaoke: Supernatural Beings).
ALT Future Karaoke poster: Supernatural Beings. A quickfire evening of new poems and stories. Wednesday 27 November, 6.30-8.00pm. Free entry, at ARU, LAB 028. Book at bit.ly/futurekaraoke9.
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25 Nov 2024
The last Meg's Monday Muse of the year looks forward to the most exciting titles coming in 2025, from @panmacmillan, @SidekickBooks, @JonathanCape, @BloodaxeBooks and @TheEmmaPress. Click the link to find out more: mailchi.mp/poetrybooksociety…
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16 Nov 2024
We've created a starter pack of Sidekick Books poets to connect with on #Bluesky. To those we've missed because they aren't there yet -- hurry on over!: go.bsky.app/JR6MQpb
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15 Nov 2024
We've moved to where the skies are blue and plan to shutter this account at some undetermined point in the near future -- thanks for all your support over the years, Twitter. Sorry you died in disease-riddled agony.
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15 Nov 2024
We're excited to take part in our first East Anglian book fair: City of Literature Publishing Fair on 7 December, at @WritersCentre in Norwich!
More info: nationalcentreforwriting.org…
Expect on-the-day special deals for Christmas!
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31 Oct 2024
Since 'Ten Poets Defend Their Cities From Giant Strange Beasts' came out in the same month as @brokensleep's 'Devastation Songs', it was a good excuse for Jon to dive into the history of monster poems!
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29 Oct 2024
Sidekick's Jon and Kirsty will be hosting this -- the perfect follow-up/accompaniment to Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story!
29 Oct 2024
The theme for the next Future Karaoke live lit jam is supernatural beings from the Denham tracts! We're back to hybrid performance, so you can attend online or in-person. More information/booking: bit.ly/futurekaraoke9
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