An outcast, an outsider, an oddball. With too much ambition and not
enough talent, Saffron Jack has never fitted. Now, with the feeling that
his time is running out, he needs to do something drastic to change his
life. So what better idea than to run away to the nearest war zone and
do the thing he's always wanted to do: start his own country and declare
himself king...
"A bravura meditation on crown and country, borders, and what it means
to belong." - Niven Govinden
"It's exciting to see what a poet already celebrated for their
high-concept execution within individual poems can achieve when they
have the courage to. The wide canvas of Saffron Jack allows Dastidar
to untether his imagination and uses its permutational form to gather
momentum and force as it zooms in and out on the titular antihero and
his doomed and self-justified quest. Urgent, caustically funny and
provocative - compulsory and deeply enjoyable reading." - Luke
Kennard
