From politics to pop, from the UK to California, wherever digital
heartbeats flutter and stutter, Ticker-tape is a maximalist take on
21st century living. Rishi Dastidar's first full collection showcases
one of contemporary poetry's most distinctive voices, delivering
effervescence with equal servings of panache and whiplash-quick wit.
Here is sheer madcap ingenuity and also impressive breadth; ranging from
odes of love to deconstructed diversity campaigns and detonations of
banter's worst excesses, plus appearances from ex-SugaBabes, a shark who
comes to tea, to the matters of matchstick empires and national
identity. Ticker-tape is bold, adventuresome and wry - an unmissable
and irrepressible debut.