Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak blooms with poems determined to do the generous work of love and hope – using the power of language to make change, express desire, and imagine the world as we'd like it to be.
Rishi Dastidar's poems, with their deft skill in moving from the surreal to the profound, are a perfect burst of joy in challenging times, effervescent and seriously playful, romancing cityscapes and bursting with wit.
Praise for Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak
'These poems froth with ideas and formal daring. Dastidar has an impeccable ear for the language of our epoch. Seductive and sublime – or, in the poet’s words: ‘tender tending towards glorious.' - Clare Pollard
'Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak embodies all the inventiveness and wit I’ve come to expect from Rishi Dastidar, whose humour first dazzles, then turns delight towards serious ends. These are poems that ‘open their arms to their world’ in all its richness and oddity, revelling in language and sensation, full of heart and hope. Dastidar is a poet who can intuit the patterin pattern and reveal the wonders there.' - Sarah Howe
'This is the Rishi Dastidar collection I've been waiting for. All of his wit, invention and imaginative intensity is in full force, bringing an unbridled lyricism to a landscape endlessly mediated and presented back to us by bad-to-neutral actors. I can think of no better guide to our stupefying times and whether or not our 'brittle quip shields' can withstand it.' - Luke Kennard
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