Mildly Erotic goings-on south of the river tonight!

Innuendo-o-meter up to 11, and away we go!

Time to get hot under the collar and weak at the knees, with the launch of bright young publisher The Emma Press's Anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse!

Gorgeously illustrated, with Audrey Horne-red end papers and choc-full of teasing, tantalisation and tingles, this little minx is going to solve a lot of your Christmas present issues.

It's all going down tonight (26th September) at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall, where Jon and I will be reading at the launch, along with Julia Bird, Hugh Dunkerley, Amy Key, Anja Konig, Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi, Julie Mullen, Richard O'Brien, Emma Reay, Jacqueline Saphra, Stephen Sexton, Ruth Wiggins and Jerrold Yam. (Fact: at least one of these poets has come all the way from Switzerland to mildly eroticise you.)

If you're busy being unsexy tonight, you have my sympathies. But that's no problem, for the tingles are going on tour!

We'll be joining the party on 2nd October and 16th November, but will most assuredly be slinking along to the other dates too.







As The Emma Press themselves put it,

Follow the Trail of Moths this Friday!

Psst! We're very happy to be publishing Follow the Trail of Moths: the Best of Wayne Holloway-Smith's Literary Salons (look, that's it to the left! Ooh!), featuring a ravishing selection of contemporary poets and storytellers, and art by the very talented Sophie Gainsley, who designed the hand-drawn maps after which the anthology is named.

We are even more happy to furtively whisper to you that Mr H-S will be hosting one final fling to launch the collection and round off his infamous Bacchanalian career, on Friday 20th September 2013 at his abode!

Readers confirmed are: Annie Freud, Jack Underwood, Martha Sprackland, John McCullough, Matthew Caley, Mark Waldron, Inua Ellams and Tim Wells.

All are very welcome, but we need to keep tabs on numbers, so please RSVP to us at contact@drfulminare.com to receive your own piece of entomological cartography (aka your moth map!).

Here are a few more lovely moths, just to whet your appetite:

Sunday Review: Charles Ardai's "The Good-Neighbor Policy"

'Tis Sunday, and I'm going out to see my girl. We're gonna hang at her place and watch Batman on her laptop. It's our ninth date and all the others have been dinners, so our story so far is going to look like this:

dinner dinner dinner dinner
dinner dinner dinner dinner BATMAN!

This reminds me - I've just written a review of Charles Ardai's The Good-Neighbor Policy, which is a detective story. This means that it probably would never fit in with Batman - for some reason Detective Comics never actually publish detective comics. Even without the cape, though, it's a great read. And so is my review, naturally. Find it by clicking on this link!

And have a great Sunday!

The Problem with Blurbs

FREE VERSE: The Poetry Book Fair

After being in absentia last year, Sidekick will be back at the Free Verse book fair this Saturday, held at Conway Hall in London from 10pm onwards.

At least three new books will be available there for the very first time (we'll be publishing them all later this month). Two of them are as follows:

Follow the Trail of Moths, the best of Wayne Holloway-Smith's literary salons, with illustrations by Sophie Gainsley ...

... and Angela, an illustrated team-up pamphlet by Chrissy Williams and Howard Hardiman. Want to know more? Come see us this Saturday! Or else stay tuned for further details and announcements.

Sunday Review: Mistaken for Art or Rubbish by Alexander Velky

Sunday review is up folks! We're touching on the question of art & artists with Mistaken for Art or Rubbish, by Alexander Velky. Reviewed for us by Simon Turner. Find the review here, & enjoy (the review and the weekend, of course).