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theguardian.com | Rishi Dastidar
Santanu Bhattacharya turned heads with his 2023 debut novel One Small Voice, which intertwines the personal fallout after a boy watches a mob burn a Muslim man with a panoramic survey of how modern Indian society is changing – buckling, almost – with the rise of Hindu nationalism as its dominant ideology. It marked him out as a novelist able to tell the biggest of stories with the most precise and haunting of details. His follow-up, Deviants, is even more ambitious.
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telegraph.co.uk | Rishi Dastidar |Sophie Haigney
February: frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry by Diane SeussAlongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to be considered as the most influential American poet of the last 10 years. A former social worker, over six collections she has become renowned for her fearless excavation of her life in her work.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Rishi Dastidar
Winning the TS Eliot prize came as a shock to American poet Peter Gizzi. “I had zero expectations”, he says. “All I know is I was overwhelmed.” In fact, the 65-year-old says he almost cried when his name was read out for his collection Fierce Elegy. When we talk the next day – Gizzi is speaking over Zoom from Valencia, where he flew to see family after attending the ceremony in London on Monday night – he is clearly still emotional.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rishi Dastidar
In 2024 politics has been inescapable for many poets, a retreat from the world impossible, particularly from the Israel-Gaza war. This has been especially true for the Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah, whose[...] (Out-Spoken) suggests the impossibility of fully articulating the effect of the pain and destruction, but also a yawning absence now and in the future: “From time to time, language dies. / It is dying now.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
betarish.medium.com | Rishi Dastidar
Rishi Dastidar·Follow3 min read·--I know the spirit of where we are right now is not to take a baseball bat to bad ads. But I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this since seeing it last week’s Economist. An advert for XM Cyber in last week’s EconomistWhich at one level says: ‘job done’, right? On another: oh so very much not. More than anything, it left me with a series of questions:Who is XM Cyber? What are ‘Schwarz Digits’ when they’re at home?
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rishi Dastidar
Collected Poems by Wendy Cope (Faber, £20)Nearly 40 years after Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis catapulted Cope to fame, here’s a chance to revel in the work of one of our greatest poets. Favourites like The Orange, After the Lunch and the sonnets of her flailing parodist Strugnell delight anew, while some of the previously uncollected poems are so good you wonder why they haven’t surfaced before.
