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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · Apr 2

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...

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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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 11m

Skewing the historical narrative, one wonky search result at a time!

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 4h

once again I am asking why people will not pay me to write funny nonsense as opposed to other nonsense

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 5h

and yes, an idea is *stirring*

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 5h

I worried that one of my fave things I ever wrote might have got lost. Turns out not. Thank you @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social for keeping those domain payments going. smokealondonpeculiar.co.uk/index.php/20...

An audience with the Black Prince | Smoke: a London Peculiar

Local radio reporter Rishi Dastidar interviews Edward, the Black Prince, about his recent return from his military campaigns and the dead.

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 8h

Britian Fusty > Britian Frisky

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 8h

Honestly I'm struggling to take it, her seriously, knowing she'll be gone soon enough. Save our (f)irepower for the Jenrick shitstorm that will inevitably come. Far more dangerous, the *analysis* he touts.

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 8h

maybe it was a really bad creative writing workshop? Someone laughed at an early draft of a poem. Bringing something a bit Oulipo to a more trad lyric grouping. It happens! But a bit wild to extrapolate that hurt into "burn the education of humanities down".

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 8h

Who hurt you Kemi? How bad were the barbs at Sussex Uni? Most peeps I know from there are herbivorous lovers, not engineer baiters.

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 9h

no no, thank you!

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 10h

Delighted that @pierototo.bsky.social took such time and care to translate some work of mine into Italian for Atelier Poesia. atelierpoesia.it/rishi-dastid...

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

Curious about where science meets poetry?

Science Communication through Poetry is an online course exploring how creative language can make research more human and engaging.

Only a few places left. Register here:
napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...

#SciComm #Poetry #AcademicSky #SciArt 🧪

Science Communication through Poetry

At Edinburgh Napier University, we nurture talent and create knowledge that shapes communities all around the world.

napier.ac.uk

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

This is very good from @stephenkb.bsky.social on.ft.com/433rk6P

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

on.ft.com

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous Harvest moon tonight.

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 1d

I had a great time reading at Everything at The Walrus in Waterloo this evening. Fab crowd, lovely energy and some drop dead gawge poems from the open mic. Love nights like this that remind you that poetry’s pretty damn fine.

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 2d

ah but I'll be reading anonymously so

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 2d

Send in yer poems!

Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 2d

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is now open for entries in both categories:
The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines
The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines
Deadline 31 January 2026
This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social
Good luck!
magmapoetry.com/competition/

Magma Poetry Competition - Magma Poetry

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is now open for entries in both categories The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines De...

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 2d

Light & Shadow

I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day.

If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor.

So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

Light and Shadow at Nine Elms London Underground station

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 2d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 2d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 2d

A cracking TS Eliot Prize shortlist here: tseliot.com/prize/t-s-el...

T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 Shortlist – ‘great range, suggestiveness and power’ – T. S. Eliot Prize

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 2d

Not just democracy that dies in darkness it appears, poor horsies

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 3d

To be snubbed by progressives is one thing; to be bested by Robbie Savage…

Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 3d

I think his radicalisation started when he couldn’t even get his name into the podcast he hosted with Robbie Savage and Andrew Flintoff: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza

At just 20, the poet is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has become