Sidevent Adkick Day 17: Special Gifty Limited Edition Superminis!

Eeep! It's a Christmas exclusive! Jon has been hard at work, making a micro-run of special edition Supermini anthologies, with unique collage cards and themed keepsakes!

There are three to choose from, they're £8 plus postage, and when they're gone, they're gone!

OBAKARAMA (3 copies only)

The gift edition of our colourful Japanese monster anthology, Obakarama, comes with a hand-made card featuring a sinister umi-bozu looming over a ship. You also get two beautiful hana-fuda playing cards in there.

KORSAKOFF'S PAPER CHAIN (1 copy only)

The tale of a text, destroyed and remade through the false memories of many poets. The gift edition of Korsakoff's Paper Chain comes with a scalpelled greetings card of a mystery figure and a dictaphone-tape pendant.

SUPER TREASURE ARCADE (4 copies only)

Originally designed as a reward for high-level Coin Opera II buyers, Super Treasure Arcade is a Sidekick rarity! Jon Stone takes the reader on a journey through gaming history, with a poem and an illustration for every game from 1974, when the first arcade video game emerged, to 2014. The gift edition comes with a collage card of an arcade machine and a lucky ¥5 coin.

We hope you enjoy these monkeyed-with micros!

The Sidekick Advent Calendar: Day 16

Today's play-poem, 'Oriole in a time of great upheaval', comes from Korsakoff's Paper Chain, courtesy of Adham Smart. The first reconstruction of Dr Fulminare's damned, blasted and loris-munched manuscript, it's a real firecracker.

And since Christmas isn't complete without a gif:

Korsakoff Returns via Poetry International

The pernicious influence of Dr F spreads! Sarah Howe is profiled this month on the Poetry International website, and one of her featured poems is 'Le 14 Juillet', which first appeared in Sidekick's fourth micro-anthology, Korsakoff's Paper Chain, which in turn looks a little something like this:

In this miniature volume, every poem was remade from the remains of another after it had been subjected to some form of violence. 'Le 14 Juillet' was once Tony Williams' poem 'Sleeve Notes', before a phial of word rot was spilled on the text, leaving only the verbs intact. Sarah Howe's poem was then shot full of holes by a rival of Dr F, before being restitched as Edward Mackay's 'Le 14 Juillet '68: apres le mai passe'.

We are very happy to see the results of this exercise in wanton literary vandalism (and restoration) preserved for further study!