Anita Pati was born and grew up in an English northern seaside town. She now lives in London where she has worked variously as a library assistant and a journalist.\u00a0She has been a Jerwood\/Arvon mentee, one of the Poetry Trust\u2019s Aldeburgh 8, won the Wasafiri<\/em> New Writing Prize and was a winner of the inaugural Women Poets\u2019 Prize.\u00a0Dodo Provocateur<\/em> is her debut pamphlet and won The Rialto\u2019s<\/em> second Open Pamphlet Competition.<\/p>\n Every poem in Dodo Provocateur<\/em> is taut with riotous language, utterly surprising and dizzyingly ambitious. Yet despite their linguistic fanfare and creative formalism they are ultimately poems which engage with and reframe the outsider \u2013 giving voice to the lost, the ignored and the marginalised. Dodo Provocateur<\/em> is a series of moving vignettes which celebrate the unrealised beauty of Victorian sewer pumps, crime scenes, earwigs and extinct birds. This pamphlet represents a significant body of work from an important, articulate and restless new voice in Richard Scott<\/em><\/p>\n In her explorations of displacement, alienation and fractured identity, Anita Pati engages unique sprung rhythms and invented dialects \u2013 as though she hears a music no one else has access to. Her poems are strange, risky, exciting and utterly original.<\/p>\n Kathryn Maris<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a36 inc P&P (UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n ISBN 9781909632097 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cover image: Rina Banerjee Anita Pati was born and grew up in an English northern seaside town. She now lives in London where she has worked variously as a library assistant and a journalist.\u00a0She has been a Jerwood\/Arvon mentee, one of the Poetry Trust\u2019s Aldeburgh 8, won the Wasafiri<\/em> New Writing Prize and was a winner of the inaugural Women Poets\u2019 Prize.\u00a0Dodo Provocateur<\/em> is her debut pamphlet and won The Rialto\u2019s<\/em> second Open Pamphlet Competition.<\/p>\n Every poem in Dodo Provocateur<\/em> is taut with riotous language, utterly surprising and dizzyingly ambitious. Yet despite their linguistic fanfare and creative formalism they are ultimately poems which engage with and reframe the outsider \u2013 giving voice to the lost, the ignored and the marginalised. Dodo Provocateur<\/em> is a series of moving vignettes which celebrate the unrealised beauty of Victorian sewer pumps, crime scenes, earwigs and extinct birds. This pamphlet represents a significant body of work from an important, articulate and restless new voice in Richard Scott<\/em><\/p>\n In her explorations of displacement, alienation and fractured identity, Anita Pati engages unique sprung rhythms and invented dialects \u2013 as though she hears a music no one else has access to. Her poems are strange, risky, exciting and utterly original.<\/p>\n Kathryn Maris<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a36 inc P&P (UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n ISBN 9781909632097 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8297,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[222],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8296","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-pamphlets","7":"product_shipping_class-pamphlets","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBritish poetry.<\/p>\n
\nWire bound pamphlet, 36pp including cover.<\/p>\n
\nDodo bird and her Extinction met Dutch sailors in the Indian Ocean while they were looking for fortune and existence both plain and simple sailed into new worlds and paradises or experience death was one notion, 2014
\nAcrylic and ink on paper
\n32 1\/4 x 24 inches
\nCollection: Ford Foundation
\nImage: Courtesy of the artist Rina Banerjee and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris\/Bruxelles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anita Pati \u2013 Dodo Provocateur<\/h3>\n
\nBritish poetry.<\/p>\n
\nWire bound pamphlet, 36pp including cover.<\/p>\n