Awards

• Winner of White Review Poet's Prize 2023

Overview

Let’s talk about it: how we fabricate intimacy, the wet scapes of the world scolded back to rigid, flashy                                                                      direction. Don’t                                                                      you think every hero must grow to love their algorithm?Hasti’s debut pamphlet crackles with the electricity of life. It’s a collection of abundance, of self and world, teeming with humans, machines and everything in between. ‘young, dumb, and full of poems is what we’ll be chanting at the protest and in the club. Give it to your best barista, throw it in the levers of the machine, read it in among the flourishing weeds that crack our concrete. Growing out from the smallest noghte to span the cosmos, this pamphlet, like an ansible, will keep us together when we fear falling apart. “Louche and still wild,” Hasti’s poems are sticky with intimacy; alive with flyting across the page in unstoppable lines.’ So Mayer ‘Hasti’s observations of the world are woven in a gentle yet piercing manner in this debut pamphlet. These poems place us in our own everyday lives, waking our senses to question, challenge and most importantly, to love. A gorgeous debut.’ Yomi Ṣode ‘Hasti’s poems, once read, become part of you. Here are poems from inside the machine arm and after the meteor strike, the speaker somewhere between young and unyoung, with place, voice, and time imbricated and curling into one another, becoming weed-like, a self surviving in the gaps. In the crucible of this little book, it is a beautiful thing to be made and unmade’ Will Harris ‘A rare and refreshing read, navigating complex identities and emotions with care, delicacy, and artfulness.’ Golnoosh Nour

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9781913268824

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Hasti is a poet and writer living in South East London. A member of the inaugural Southbank New Poets Collective and the Ledbury Poetry Critics, they are the recipient of the 2023 White Review Poet’s Prize and the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. Hasti has also co-written short sci-fi film DIGGING, produced by Film4. Hasti hosts open mic and poetry night Fresh Lip, and its sister show for Montez Press Radio, Fresh Air. This is their first book.

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