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Tweet from Gertrude's Gifts reads: "The flameless tea lights: Why is there so much resignation in a package"
  • 15 December 20163 August 2022
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Play-poems and bardbots!

Advent is upon us, and we’ve been celebrating over at Sidekick Books! Every day we’ve opened a new window of poetry mishmashery, featuring: i) Hybardrid Twitterbots, mixing famous poets with other poets and other texts…

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A robot hand writing on paper
  • 5 April 20163 August 2022
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What a piece of work: poetry and technophobia

The robots are here and they’re writing poetry. Beyond the outrage and scorn of human readers, could there be some work of interest?

A naked pinup girl on the cover of Weird Tales, beside a skull
  • 14 March 20163 August 2022
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Does poetry need genre boundaries?

Shopping for poetry is tricky if you don’t have a name in mind. Could genre boundaries offer a new way of browsing?

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