A Hobby of Mine by Rishi Dastidar Edward Lear she has returned to the

she has returned to the Thames

says: ‘We gaze on our soul-landscapes / More intensely with every year

the finest poets that ever put pen to paper describe this beautiful and sometimes terrible season

this volume brings together these new poems with poems first published in Selected Poems (1975)

A Hobby of Mine by Rishi Dastidar Edward Lear she has returned to theIn A Hobby of Mine, Rishi Dastidar's unrelenting catalogue of cultural observations becomes an absurd and profound portrait of modern life. With a playful spirit and incisive wit, Dastidar examines identity, memory, and the contradictions of everyday existence. He invites us to consider the idiosyncrasies that shape how we navigate a fragmented world, and the hidden dimensions of our routines: repetition becomes revelation if we pay enough attention.