Poets 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?

Contributions by: Penny Boxall, Becky Varley-Winter, Helen Bowell, Patrick Davidson Roberts, Vasiliki Albedo, Swithun Cooper, Matthew Caley, Imogen Robertson, Rachel Jeffcoat, Tom Bland