Ten Poets Charm the Pants Off Ten Historical FiguresPoets are famous rakes, seductresses and time travellers, are they not? Cast all doubt from your mind by taking in these ten tantalising accounts of extremely inter generational flirtation, whereby prominent persons from history are left weak kneed and willing. But is that all there is to it? Or are our poets, as poets tend to be, up to much else besides mere dalliance? And will they change the past forever, or vanish into it?

the victim of a stroke

whose re-emergence into her life two years previously sparked the breakdown of marriage

Jack Mapanje and Femi Oyebode

it follows two people - a man and a woman - and their many attempts to hook up together

criss-cross

bought at a village fete as a school-student

will excuse me

Where the algorithms of the body and the memory fail

It's comprehensiveness alone would make it an invaluable introduction to an enormously creative community of poets

fully-illustrated catalogue of all photographic materials (negatives

/ a bird whirrs up and saves / its eyes for the militant hour

‘Odesa is my discovered heart