Ticker-Tape: Rishi Dastidar Rishi Dastidar, rising star of the contemporary poetry scene, has really hit his stride with this collection. It oscillates between a smart otherworldliness and a colloquial personal voice. Interviewed here for the Asian Writer Magazine he talks about his first brush with poetry: “Q. Where did your journey of writing poetry begin? Very atypically, I can pinpoint an exact moment where I had a damascene conversion – where poetry very suddenly entered my life properly, for the first time. Back in about 2008 I was in the big Borders on Oxford Street in London, idly browsing – I’d just got back from a weekend away in Berlin, and was looking for a book, to ‘commemorate’ the weekend, as it were. I was in that state of drifting, not really concentrating, and I found myself in the poetry section; on display was ‘Ashes for Breakfast’ by the German poet Durs Grünbein, in a translation by Michael Hofmann. I started flicking through it… and it was like a light going on. I was transfixed – not just by the sheer sensation of, ‘My God, words can do this?’ but the sudden sense of ‘Wow, this is the stuff I want to be writing. Why did no one tell me this existed before?’ In my memory, I think I booked myself on an Introduction to writing poetry course at City Lit the day after. There might actually have been a few months in between, but hey!, that’s not as good a story.” Read the full interview here: http://bit.ly/2pJd0PS
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Ticker-Tape: Rishi Dastidar
Rishi Dastidar, rising star of the contemporary poetry scene, has really hit his stride with this collection. It oscillates between a smart otherworldliness and a colloquial personal voice. Interviewed here for the Asian Writer Magazine he talks about his first brush with poetry: “Q. Where did your journey of writing poetry begin?
Very atypically, I can pinpoint an exact moment where I had a damascene conversion – where poetry very suddenly entered my life properly, for the first time. Back in about 2008 I was in the big Borders on Oxford Street in London, idly browsing – I’d just got back from a weekend away in Berlin, and was looking for a book, to ‘commemorate’ the weekend, as it were. I was in that state of drifting, not really concentrating, and I found myself in the poetry section; on display was ‘Ashes for Breakfast’ by the German poet Durs Grünbein, in a translation by Michael Hofmann. I started flicking through it… and it was like a light going on. I was transfixed – not just by the sheer sensation of, ‘My God, words can do this?’ but the sudden sense of ‘Wow, this is the stuff I want to be writing. Why did no one tell me this existed before?’ In my memory, I think I booked myself on an Introduction to writing poetry course at City Lit the day after. There might actually have been a few months in between, but hey!, that’s not as good a story.” Read the full interview here: http://bit.ly/2pJd0PS
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LibreriaTicker-Tape: Rishi Dastidar
Rishi Dastidar, rising star of the contemporary poetry scene, has really hit his stride with this collection. It oscillates between a smart otherworldliness and a colloquial personal voice. Interviewed here for the Asian Writer Magazine he talks about his first brush with poetry: “Q. Where did your journey of writing poetry begin?
Very atypically, I can pinpoint an exact moment where I had a damascene conversion – where poetry very suddenly entered my life properly, for the first time. Back in about 2008 I was in the big Borders on Oxford Street in London, idly browsing – I’d just got back from a weekend away in Berlin, and was looking for a book, to ‘commemorate’ the weekend, as it were. I was in that state of drifting, not really concentrating, and I found myself in the poetry section; on display was ‘Ashes for Breakfast’ by the German poet Durs Grünbein, in a translation by Michael Hofmann. I started flicking through it… and it was like a light going on. I was transfixed – not just by the sheer sensation of, ‘My God, words can do this?’ but the sudden sense of ‘Wow, this is the stuff I want to be writing. Why did no one tell me this existed before?’ In my memory, I think I booked myself on an Introduction to writing poetry course at City Lit the day after. There might actually have been a few months in between, but hey!, that’s not as good a story.” Read the full interview here: http://bit.ly/2pJd0PS
#libreriarecommends #libtryptich #rishidastidar #onedayillhavemyowntickertapeparade #poems
