In A Hobby of Mine, Rishi Dastidar's unrelenting catalogue of cultural observations becomes an absurd and profound portrait of modern life.
Rishi Dastidar is a fellow of The Complete Works, and a consulting editor at The Rialto. His third collection, Neptune's Projects (Nine Arches Press) was longlisted for the 2023 Laurel Prize. He is editor of The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century (Nine Arches Press), and co-editor of Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen (Corsair). He reviews poetry for The Guardian (UK) and is chair of international writing magazine Wasafiri.
