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Thursday 17 May 2012

Team Up & DIY: One Day Workshop


On Saturday 9th June, Kirsty and I will be running a one-off workshop at the Poetry School called Team Up & DIY. The double focus is on collaborative texts and then publishing and publicising the result of your efforts. This latter part will be drawing on our long and harrowing experience with amateur printing, binding, sourcing materials, building websites and fainting at the cost of posting parcels of literary goodness to Singapore. But the first part, the collaborative part, will be interesting too. We'll be looking at a wide variety of (in some cases, arguably) dual-authored texts, including the potential for collaborating with dead poets, and carrying out an exercise with participants on the day that will involve them teaming up together.

Hopefully see some of you there!

Booking and further info here.

Monday 14 May 2012

Poetry Rodeos and Forged Antlers!

Two events you should know about, for they are exciting!

Nine Arches Press team up with Sidekick to bring you Poetry Rodeo on Thursday 17 May. Spellbook and Birdbook stars Edward McKay and Nia Davies join 9A's Alistair Noon and Andrew Frolish at the Big Green Bookshop, Wood Green (gorgeous shop - check it out) for a night of poetic fantastitude.

Click the image below for el event page:


Secondly, for those in London on 8 June, Sidekick's own Jon Stone is launching his PBS-recommended first collection (YEAH!) School of Forgery, alongside the magnificent John Clegg, whose first collection, Antler, is a source of great toe-tapping excitement in the Sidekick camp. Check out their wistful author shots!

Where? The New Moon, London EC3V 0DN, from 7pm. Click the image below for the event page!