Neptune's Projects Format:Paperback

Neptune's Projects Format:PaperbackWhat do you do when you are a god but powerless and unable to prevent one of your favourite species from their insatiable, accelerating death wish? Do you try to shout louder and more insistently, or instead reinvent yourself as a troubadour of romantic ruin? Such are the dilemmas posed by Rishi Dastidar in his third poetry collection Neptunes Projects, a reshaping of mythology for the climate crisis era which gives bold consideration to the stark

Although observed with a detached eye their unflinching truth is simultaneously intimate and compassionate

Lydia Macpherson

translated and introduced by Denys Johnson-Davies)

a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents

Darkly comic

Rhian Edwards is a poet and singer-songwriter

Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels to a still-peaceful Odesa on routine assignment

she manages to leap over the wall between the bodily surface and the human interior in a very distinctive way

Yet they snaffle bugs by the thousand

With a rhythmic

We feel her sorrow but also her frustration at being undiagnosed

not so wild