Happy to be one fae among many fae.

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Out now: Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae! Feat. Rowan Carteret, Tim Dooley, Kate Falvey, @alecfinlay.bsky.social , Naomi Foyle, Rosie Hart, Dominic Lyne, Wendy Manning, Yvonne Reddick and @natalieshaw.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeED... #folklore #faeries #booksky #poetry

Out now: Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae! Feat. Rowan Carteret, Tim Dooley, Kate Falvey, @alecfinlay.bsky.social , Naomi Foyle, Rosie Hart, Dominic Lyne, Wendy Manning, Yvonne Reddick and @natalieshaw.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeED... #folklore #faeries #booksky #poetry

Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae

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A quick look back on the year's live outings, including our appearance at Wilderness Festival, via Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

DIARY: Sidekick on Tour '26

Come buy our fruits, come buy.

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Bit of a link glitch with our current submissions call, so we're extending the &Friends call for amalgamatic writing proposals until 31 Aug! What's amalgamatic writing? Well, have you ever had an obsession you wanted to explore through lots of different lenses...? sidekickbooks.com/booklab/subm...

Submissions Calls 2026 - Sidekick Books

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR BRAND NEW ‘…&FRIENDS’ SERIES DEADLINE EXTENDED DUE TO TECH ISSUES: 15 August 31 August 2026! In 2027, we’re aiming to publish four titles as part of an experimental n...

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Looks like Wordery currently have a discount on Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon! www.wordery.com/book/ten-poe...

Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon by Al Crowe, Jon Stone | Wordery

Buy Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon by Al Crowe, Jon Stone from Wordery today! Click and Collect from your local Wordery.

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Next weekend, we're off to Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire with three of the Ten Poets stars: Helen Bowell, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and Kevin Reinhardt! Thank you to Phlox Books for inviting us!

So many sunglasses in Ledbury at the Poetry Festival! Dear reader, are all poets natural spies? Read this small stylish anthology and decide....

Sidekick Books@sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OUT NOW: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service! Feat. @abrackenbury.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social @mconley.bsky.social Grace Ellis, Jac Harmon, Safa Maryam, Claire Orchard, Jess Richards @robertsheppard.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social 📚💙 #BookSky Book 🔗 in bio!

A wonderful little video to advertise (hang on, should we do that in the Secret Service?) ... our ten seater anthology. I wrote about it a bit here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/04/ive-...

I've done my bit - as have nine others - for the Secret Service: new anthology

I am pleased to say that I have a poem in this compact anthology Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service. Unusually for me I saw the c...

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Sidekick Books@sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OUT NOW: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service! Feat. @abrackenbury.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social @mconley.bsky.social Grace Ellis, Jac Harmon, Safa Maryam, Claire Orchard, Jess Richards @robertsheppard.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social 📚💙 #BookSky Book 🔗 in bio!

Glad I don't work in snowblower manufacturing because I would be driven mad by colleagues singing "DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOW FAN!" every morning

OUT NOW: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service! Feat. @abrackenbury.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social @mconley.bsky.social Grace Ellis, Jac Harmon, Safa Maryam, Claire Orchard, Jess Richards @robertsheppard.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social 📚💙 #BookSky Book 🔗 in bio!

What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving? This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...

One of our finest agents, Robert Sheppard, talks about his time in the Fulminare Agency! robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/04/ive-... #poetry #indiepublishing

I've done my bit - as have nine others - for the Secret Service: new anthology

I am pleased to say that I have a poem in this compact anthology Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service. Unusually for me I saw the c...

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The latest Sidekick title is Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae, featuring Tim Dooley, Alec Finlay, Yvonne Reddick and others. If you've not started collecting the Ten Poets series yet, now's the best time to start! sidekickbooks.com/booklab/book...

New Submissions Call: Send us YOUR proposal for a Sidekick-style amalgamatic book (we'll explain everything), for the &Friends Series! open.substack.com/pub/sidekick... #poetry #booksky #callforsubmissions #submissions #mixedmedia #collaboration #indiepress

Submissions Call: &Friends Series!

Send us your ideas for a collaborative, combinatory masterpiece

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This Sunday (24th May) we'll be smuggling AT LEAST ten spies into the Norwich City of Literature Publishing Fair! Come and say hello in the gorgeous medieval Dragon Hall, then browse the #indiepublishing goodness from tons of presses and check out some of the lightning talks! #BookSky

I did my bit for the Secret Service and for this book, and I write a little about it, here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/04/ive-...

Sidekick Books@sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service will be available, ahead of publication date, at this Saturday's Free Verse Poetry Book Fair at St Columba's Church in Knightsbridge!

me: why do ppl keep saying this poem is two poems the poem:

Delighted to make the Shortlist for the Secret Service call with @sidekickbooks.bsky.social #JamesBond #007

Brilliant day meeting folk and snaffling indie #poetry at Free Verse 2026. Thank you @poetrysociety.org !

Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service will be available, ahead of publication date, at this Saturday's Free Verse Poetry Book Fair at St Columba's Church in Knightsbridge!

We're at the Alternative Book Fair in Islington Library till 5, still with some mystery micro books left!

This Saturday from 10-5, we'll be joining the fine publishers of the @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social at Islington Central Library for the Indie Book Fair, part of the Alternative Book Fair! Hop off the tube at Highbury & Islington, grab yourself some bargains and hear some damn fine #poetry.

A shot from our Cambridge launch in this!

Jon Stone@shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here's my big (but relatively short) round-up of various events and readings over the last few months, as well as what's just around the corner. Of particular interest to those of you who really like looking at posters! shotscarecrow.substack.com/p/diary-talk...

"Blood for the water, blood for the foam." Megan Pattie is the poet behind the goriest poem in our Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire's Castle anthology. And she's about to publish a full gothic collection with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Megan Pattie -Bertha Comes Down | Broken Sleep Books

Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie is a collection steeped in metamorphosis, haunting, and quiet resistance. Drawing on myth, the gothic, and the occult, Pattie explores the thresholds between madness ...

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All the old crew (and the new) should converge on London, like a host of shapeshifting bats! Let us revive the spirit of Trotwood!

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 7mo ago

This’ll be awesome. I’ll see if I can get in for it if I’m back. Who else might I see there? @wendycaitlin.bsky.social ?

We're doing a London launch for the latest two Sidekick titles a week tomorrow (a day before the deadline for our current submissions call)! Come join us.

Four new 100-word reviews, thematically linked to our current submissions call -- in case any of you need further inspiration! sidekickbooks.substack.com/p/100-word-r...

100-Word Reviews: Fae/Spy Edition

On theme with our latest submissions call: Night Animals; Animal Well; Slow Horses; Codenames Duet.

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Have you published poetry dealing with assisted reproduction/IVF? Can you recommend a piece/collection you've read? Dr Carrie Smith would like to hear from you for a project exploring representation of assisted reproduction in literature, media & the arts research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk/representing...

SUBMISSIONS CALL. Our next titles in the 10 Poets series are '... Do Their Bit for the Secret Service' and '... Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae'. We're looking for original, weird and imaginative poems to fill these books! sidekickbooks.com/booklab/subm...

Submissions Calls 2026 - Sidekick Books

SIDEKICK SUBMISSIONS CALLS 2026 Current: Ten Poets Do Their Bit For the Secret Service and Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae DEADLINE: 28 FEBRUARY 2026 Volumes 8 and 9 in our hit 10 Poe...

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Just officially launched this wonderful @sidekickbooks.bsky.social anthology which I contributed to... it's perfectly stocking-sized, just right for the vampire lover in your life! sidekickbooks.com/booklab/book...