You've got so many machines, Richard!: an anthology of Aphex Twin poetry

by Rishi Dastidar (editor), Aaron Kent (Editor)

How do you explain a mystery? This opaque mythology is something that pervades a lot of the poems here, inspired by the sideways, the askew, the fables of Aphex Twin. This isn’t intended to be a discovery of who Aphex is, nor necessarily what he means to the contributors, rather an attempt to introduce the mythos and aura of Richard D. James. You won’t get to know Aphex Twin better through these poems, but you will be intrigued, all over again. The most emotional of musicians, this Aphex Twin anthology provides a reminder that brain and heart can get pulled at by the unexpected as much as the nostalgic familiar.

Contains original poems by Sophie Taylor, Katie Oliver, Fiona Glen, Naomi Marklew, Jared Schwartz, Aaron Kent, Dan Power, Kenneth M Cale, Maria Sledmere, Wesley Finch, Barney Ashton-Bullock, Charlie Baylis, Jack Stacey, Trent Oven, CD Boyland, Calum Rodger, Adam Heardman, Anna Kirwin, Alastair Hesp, Dan Melling, Karina Bush, Joshua Blackman, Paul Ings, Christopher Horton, Ben Armstrong, Esme Huānhuān, Aaron Fagan, Stefan Mohamed, Robert Bal, Rishi Dastidar, James Davies, and Ben Blench, as well as forewords by the editors.

62 pages, Paperback

Published January 17, 2022

About the author

Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by Financial Times, New Scientist and the BBC amongst many others. His debut collection Ticker-tape is published by Nine Arches Press, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. A member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine, he also chairs the London writer development organization Spread The Word, and is editor of the final part of the Nine Arches Press writers’ trilogy, The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century.

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