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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere 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. \u003ci\u003eTicker-tape\u003c\/i\u003e is bold, adventuresome and wry – an unmissable and irrepressible debut.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309009088885,"sku":"9781911027171","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911027171_f79a3354-4b3c-49d5-ae54-391fb7b53ebc.jpg?v=1786029603"},{"product_id":"9781911027898","title":"Saffron Jack","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A bravura meditation on crown and country, borders, and what it means to belong.\" - \u003cb\u003eNiven Govinden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eSaffron Jack \u003c\/i\u003eallows 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. 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