by Rishi Dastidar | Sep 10, 2019 | Blogs, News, Staff and Guest blogs
Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself using the phrase ‘think like a poet’ a lot, especially as the final idea I want to leave people with, at the end of beginning to write workshops. It sounds sufficiently exhortatory (especially if I’m windmilling my arms while...
by Rishi Dastidar | Dec 15, 2017 | In the magazine, Poems in The Rialto
Shoot up in the fast lift, poke the faux gras with toothpick heels. Late lunch at the Coq d’Argent – accept a drink, plan your exit. After two pm the old religion can be smelt – some urban plague myth – even here, halfway to the holding stacks of City-bound planes....
by Rishi Dastidar | Jul 4, 2017 | Poems in The Rialto
Decompression The induction program’s willow pattern eyes and terracotta lips matched those of the woman I married in my first incarnation. She whispered, Just you and me darling me darling – a glitch, surely, A stutter in the software – so make yourself yourself. She...
by Rishi Dastidar | Jan 13, 2015 | Staff and Guest blogs
We’ve had the decorators in at home for the last few weeks. Nothing major – a few licks of paint here and there, a new light switch or two; the hey, have you had your hair cut? level of change. But what I found most surprising was my reaction of getting in of an...