Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak

Rishi Dastidar’s third collection, Neptune’s Projects, 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 is chair of Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing, and a trustee of the Wordsworth Trust.

“These poems froth with ideas and formal daring. Dastidar has an impeccable ear for the language of our epoch. Seductive and sublime – or, in the poet’s words: ‘tender tending towards glorious’”