Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts

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by Stone, Jon (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Anglia Ruskin University (United Kingdom)) | Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Published 02/09/2024 by Sidekick Books in the United Kingdom as part of the Ten Poets series
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In scenarios which recall the mid-20th century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans – as well as the existential fears they continue to embody – these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales turn on terrible confrontations in modern metropolitan centres. The poets behind them are fighters, guardians – their lines and stanzas weapons of resistance. And while the beasts themselves may be somewhat figurative, somewhat fantastical, the danger they represent is sometimes very real indeed …