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London/Cambridge-based poetry press Editors: @KoftheTriffids and @shotscarecrow. Find us on Bluesky:

[Sidekick Books @SidekickBooks]

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!

https://t.co/2yHgqX1zzf

[PoetryBookSoc @PoetryBookSoc]

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! https://t.co/yHGof3IS0A

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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: https://t.co/jBRUq5VqT7

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Poets still on Twitter! It's the last day for Sidekick submissions. At midnight the Dutchman sails and the Count rises from his coffin.

https://t.co/2yHgqX27oN

[Cambridge Writing Centre @ARUWriting]

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.

[Sidekick Books @SidekickBooks]

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!

https://t.co/2yHgqX1zzf

[Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) 🌈 @Grizonne]

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 ❤️

[Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) 🌈 @Grizonne]

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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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. https://t.co/RWeM0YbBGj... to book your free Zoom tickets, or just come along if you're in Cambridge!

[Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) 🌈 @Grizonne]

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 ❤️

[Sidekick Books @SidekickBooks]

Good luck on your solo subnautical salvage quest, Morgan! :-D

[Morgan Wodring 🦑 @morkalmarrh]

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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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
https://t.co/4RDyk7RiLY

[Sidekick Books @SidekickBooks]

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.

[Cambridge Writing Centre @ARUWriting]

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:

https://t.co/81jmhhfRVw

[Cambridge Writing Centre @ARUWriting]

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:

https://t.co/81jmhhfRVw

[PoetryBookSoc @PoetryBookSoc]

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: https://t.co/USkiEiKftv

[Sidekick Books @SidekickBooks]

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!: https://t.co/WGWvh6FuxY

[Sidekick Books @SidekickBooks]

@minorroarr Facebook is algorithmically promoting MAGA/reactionary content more and more. Instagram is owned by Facebook. Bluesky is the only one that isn't fully in hock to sinister powers.

[Sidekick Books @SidekickBooks]

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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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: https://t.co/4RDyk7RiLY

Expect on-the-day special deals for Christmas!

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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!