Venice Requiem Format:Paperback this is a novel about

this is a novel about possession

and now lives in Norfolk

Such are the dilemmas posed by Rishi Dastidar in his third poetry collection Neptune’s Projects

and the promptings of external phenomena to memory

Venice Requiem Format:Paperback this is a novel aboutOn the 22nd of January 2017, Pateh Sabally, a twenty two year old Gambian refugee living in Italy since 2015, arrives in Venice from Milan. He leaves his backpack near the Scalzi Bridge, puts his train ticket and residence permit in a plastic pouch, and then plunges into the cold waters of the Grand Canal, amidst the gaze of onlookers and tourists. As he drowns, some insult him, while others shout "Africa". Outraged by this tragic death, the novels