Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon

Ten poems. Ten poets. Ten sensational acts of exploration.

The fifth title in Sidekick’s popular '10 Poets' series sees ten new poets bravely embarking (in varied fashion and with unpredictable results) on far-ranging lunar expeditions.

Long before we went to the moon, we dreamt of going there, of what it would be like, in every medium from cinema to comic strip. Now, ten brave cosmonauts have resurrected that most rickety, most celestial of technologies – the lyric poem – as a means of reaching out as far as any of us has ever gone, in a space race from which some of them may never return. What will they find out there, amid the cold craters of the forbidding lunar cr