Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by the BBC, Financial Times, New Scientist, Tate Modern and London’s Southbank Centre amongst many others. His debut collection Ticker-tape is published in the UK by Nine Arches Press, a poem from which was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. A fellow of The Complete Works, the Arts Council England-funded programme for poets of colour, he is a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine, a member of the Malika’s Poetry Kitchen collective, and is chair of the London-based writer development organisation Spread The Word.

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A pamphlet, the break of a wave, was published in 2019 by ORB.