Rishi Dastidar
@betarish.bsky.social
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Rishi Dastidar
@betarish.bsky.social
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Rishi Dastidar - A Hobby of Mine | Broken Sleep Books
In A Hobby of Mine, Rishi Dastidar’s unrelenting catalogue of cultural observations becomes an absurd and profound portrait of modern life. With a playful spirit and incisive wit, Dastidar examines id...
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A hobby of mine is reminding you that a 'A hobby of mine' is published on 30th April, and is available to pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social now: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Thursday night! Come through.
We've two #ConsciousWritingMonth Masterclasses remaining this month. Do join us, with individual Masterclass tickets available for £15.Still to come...
🍂Changing the Canon, with Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung, Natasha Carthew & Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social
🍂Changing the Canon, with Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung, Natasha Carthew & Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Thursday night! Come through.
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Don’t miss the new episode with @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted poet Nick Makoha. We spoke about layered temporalities, founding the Obsidian Foundation, and treating ‘the poem’ like a painting.
Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.
Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.
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Exploring the power of poetry and friendship one conversation at a time.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Don’t miss the new episode with @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted poet Nick Makoha. We spoke about layered temporalities, founding the Obsidian Foundation, and treating ‘the poem’ like a painting.
Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.
Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.
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Split Enz are reuniting again, and middle-aged antipodeans everywhere are giddy with yet more nostalgia (😬) … here’s somefing wot I rote a life ago. www.theguardian.com/music/2011/n...
Old music: Split Enz – Message to My Girl
A latter-day classic from Split Enz is the missing link between I Got You and Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Split Enz are reuniting again, and middle-aged antipodeans everywhere are giddy with yet more nostalgia (😬) … here’s somefing wot I rote a life ago. www.theguardian.com/music/2011/n...
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So looking forward to reading with my fellow poets @troycabida.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social
I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social
Coming very soon - join us at the online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November, 7pm
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November, 7pm
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
So looking forward to reading with my fellow poets @troycabida.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social
I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
Profound no-sound parenting
We spoke to one dad, 37, who hasn’t said a word in three years
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Profound no-sound parenting
Ah yes, log in to Prime to watch the Kenny Dalgliesh documentary only to be reminded that I am paying to watch ads.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Ah yes, log in to Prime to watch the Kenny Dalgliesh documentary only to be reminded that I am paying to watch ads.
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Massive thank you to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for sharing this taster from BAD LANGUAGE ... one week til launch @burleyfisher.bsky.social! get some dragonfire 🔥🔥🔥
Massive thank you to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for sharing this taster from BAD LANGUAGE ... one week til launch @burleyfisher.bsky.social! get some dragonfire 🔥🔥🔥
Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.
Exclusive Extract: Bad Language by So Mayer
Read an extract from So Mayer's forthcoming book, Bad Language, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Massive thank you to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for sharing this taster from BAD LANGUAGE ... one week til launch @burleyfisher.bsky.social! get some dragonfire 🔥🔥🔥
Massive thank you to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for sharing this taster from BAD LANGUAGE ... one week til launch @burleyfisher.bsky.social! get some dragonfire 🔥🔥🔥
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Join Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung and Natasha Carthew, chaired by Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social, as we explore sustaining the long work of literary change.
🍂 Free for Being a Writer members
🍂 £15 tickets available
🍂 Free for Being a Writer members
🍂 £15 tickets available
Conscious Writing Month - The Literary Consultancy
Welcome to Conscious Writing Month 2025
literaryconsultancy.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Join Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung and Natasha Carthew, chaired by Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social, as we explore sustaining the long work of literary change.
🍂 Free for Being a Writer members
🍂 £15 tickets available
🍂 Free for Being a Writer members
🍂 £15 tickets available
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Today on BENDING THE ARC we feature a fascinating collaboration between a poet & a consultancy who specialise in flood risk & water management.
What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-res...
What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-res...
We Are Resilience: A Thrutopian Approach to Flooding
Hybrid piece: JBA Consulting, who specialise in flood risk and water management, and poet, Sophie Kirtley, explain their unusual collaboration and the inspiration for her poem, ‘We Are Resilience’.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Today on BENDING THE ARC we feature a fascinating collaboration between a poet & a consultancy who specialise in flood risk & water management.
What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-res...
What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-res...
Well, that was Poetry in Aldeburgh 2025. Not bad at all. See you all next year.
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Well, that was Poetry in Aldeburgh 2025. Not bad at all. See you all next year.
Odds on no charter renewal in 2027?
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Odds on no charter renewal in 2027?
Anyway, sod the frothings of a wiff waff wally. If you're nearby, come to the last day of Poetry in Aldeburgh. Loads on, it'd be lovely to see you. And the sun is shining on the sea! www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/programme-2025
Programme - 2025 | Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival
www.poetryinaldeburgh.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Anyway, sod the frothings of a wiff waff wally. If you're nearby, come to the last day of Poetry in Aldeburgh. Loads on, it'd be lovely to see you. And the sun is shining on the sea! www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/programme-2025
Ping Pong Guy has had a thunk
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ping Pong Guy has had a thunk
Mostly Aldeburgh the last few days
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Mostly Aldeburgh the last few days
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It's Saturday - you could, it's true, go outside, but then you run the risk of having your day ruined by seeing terrible street 'art' like this, whereas if you just stay in and click this link you will instead enter a MAGICAL PORTAL OF WEBBY DELIGHTS. A simple choice: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-07...
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's Saturday - you could, it's true, go outside, but then you run the risk of having your day ruined by seeing terrible street 'art' like this, whereas if you just stay in and click this link you will instead enter a MAGICAL PORTAL OF WEBBY DELIGHTS. A simple choice: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-07...
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@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
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Hey folks,
I had the honour of interviewing Richard Scott for the new issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social
The interview is available to read online at the following link: poetrylondon.co.uk/still-life-r...
I'm really proud of it.
Thank you Isabelle Baafi for the opportunity
Enjoy xx
I had the honour of interviewing Richard Scott for the new issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social
The interview is available to read online at the following link: poetrylondon.co.uk/still-life-r...
I'm really proud of it.
Thank you Isabelle Baafi for the opportunity
Enjoy xx
Still Life, Refracted Beauty – Discover – Poetry London
poetrylondon.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hey folks,
I had the honour of interviewing Richard Scott for the new issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social
The interview is available to read online at the following link: poetrylondon.co.uk/still-life-r...
I'm really proud of it.
Thank you Isabelle Baafi for the opportunity
Enjoy xx
I had the honour of interviewing Richard Scott for the new issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social
The interview is available to read online at the following link: poetrylondon.co.uk/still-life-r...
I'm really proud of it.
Thank you Isabelle Baafi for the opportunity
Enjoy xx
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Out today! A brilliant, essential book for our times… but you don’t need me to tell you that 👇
"In this book, Lord Nicholas Stern articulates the incredible opportunity for global development enabled by climate action."
— Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States and Environmentalist
The Growth Story of the 21st Century is out tomorrow #OpenAccess.
➡️ doi.org/10.31389/lse...
— Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States and Environmentalist
The Growth Story of the 21st Century is out tomorrow #OpenAccess.
➡️ doi.org/10.31389/lse...
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Out today! A brilliant, essential book for our times… but you don’t need me to tell you that 👇
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🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
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Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Wole Soyinka has had his US visa revoked under the Trump administration.
Wasafiri stands in solidarity with Soyinka in support of free speech and expression for all. We are sharing his words on the power & endurance of literature from Wasafiri's 1993 issue
Wasafiri stands in solidarity with Soyinka in support of free speech and expression for all. We are sharing his words on the power & endurance of literature from Wasafiri's 1993 issue
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Wole Soyinka has had his US visa revoked under the Trump administration.
Wasafiri stands in solidarity with Soyinka in support of free speech and expression for all. We are sharing his words on the power & endurance of literature from Wasafiri's 1993 issue
Wasafiri stands in solidarity with Soyinka in support of free speech and expression for all. We are sharing his words on the power & endurance of literature from Wasafiri's 1993 issue
That time again, when I tell you that I've uploaded the latest of my exclusive poems about time to @stampfans.bsky.social. Sign up, and you'll get it in the post. I know! www.stampfans.com/creator-deta...
Time Stamps
A StampFans Publication
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November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
That time again, when I tell you that I've uploaded the latest of my exclusive poems about time to @stampfans.bsky.social. Sign up, and you'll get it in the post. I know! www.stampfans.com/creator-deta...
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🍂Changing the Canon, with Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung & Natasha Carthew, chaired by Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social
🍂Just Write It, with Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social
Find the full programme & tickets on our website🔽
🍂Just Write It, with Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social
Find the full programme & tickets on our website🔽
Conscious Writing Month - The Literary Consultancy
Welcome to Conscious Writing Month 2025
literaryconsultancy.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🍂Changing the Canon, with Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung & Natasha Carthew, chaired by Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social
🍂Just Write It, with Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social
Find the full programme & tickets on our website🔽
🍂Just Write It, with Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social
Find the full programme & tickets on our website🔽