Rishi Dastidar

Rishi Dastidar is a fellow of The Complete Works, and a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine. His poetry has been published by the Financial Times, New Scientist, and the BBC, amongst many others. A fourth collection of poetry, Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak (Nine Arches Press) was published in 2026. His third collection, Neptune’s Projects (Nine Arches Press), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2024. He is editor of The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century (Nine Arches Press), and co-editor of Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (Corsair). As well as being chair of Wasafiri, he is a trustee of the Wordsworth Trust.