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A Field Guide to ForgettingIshaan Bedi

Drag your eyes, not the book — it turns toward you.

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A Field Guide to Forgetting

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Sixty-one poems arranged like a naturalist's handbook — each one an entry on something the poet is trying, and failing, to forget. The debut collection from Lighthouse's First Light imprint, shortlisted for the Southbank Poetry Prize and now in its third printing.

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ISBN978-81-964712-8-9
Pages128
LanguageEnglish
First published2025
PublisherLighthouse Publication · First Light

A debut of startling composure. Bedi catalogues loss the way a naturalist catalogues species — patiently, tenderly, and with a grief so precise it reads like taxonomy.

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Entry 14: The smell of my father's scooter. / Habitat: petrol pumps, monsoon traffic. / Conservation status: endangered, endangered, endangered.

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