Ticker-Tape
Published on 1. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-911027-17-1 (ISBN)
Description
From politics to pop, from the UK to California, wherever digital heartbeats flutter and stutter, Ticker-tape is a maximalist take on 21st century living. Rishi Dastidar's first full collection showcases one of contemporary poetry's most distinctive voices, delivering effervescence with equal servings of panache and whiplash-quick wit.
Here is sheer madcap ingenuity and also impressive breadth; ranging from odes of love to deconstructed diversity campaigns and detonations of banter's worst excesses, plus appearances from ex-SugaBabes, a shark who comes to tea, to the matters of matchstick empires and national identity. Ticker-tape is bold, adventuresome and wry - an unmissable and irrepressible debut.
Here is sheer madcap ingenuity and also impressive breadth; ranging from odes of love to deconstructed diversity campaigns and detonations of banter's worst excesses, plus appearances from ex-SugaBabes, a shark who comes to tea, to the matters of matchstick empires and national identity. Ticker-tape is bold, adventuresome and wry - an unmissable and irrepressible debut.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rugby
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
128 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911027-17-1 (9781911027171)
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Rishi Dastidar's poetry has been published by the Financial Times, New Scientist and the BBC, amongst many others. His third collection, Neptune's Projects (Nine Arches Press), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2024. He is also editor of The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century (Nine Arches Press), and co-editor of Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen (Corsair). He reviews poetry for The Guardian and is chair of Wasafiri, the leading magazine of international contemporary writing.