Ten Poets Defend Their Cities from Giant, Strange Beasts

In scenarios which recall the mid-20th century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans as well as the existential fears they continue to embody these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales turn on terrible confrontations in modern metropolitan centres. The poets behind them are fighters, guardians their lines and stanzas weapons of resistance. And while the beasts themselves may be somewhat figurative, somewhat fantastical, the danger they represent is sometimes very real indeed ...