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Neptune's Projects by Rishi Dastidar Helen Vendler and a cry flung intoWhat do you do when you are a god but powerless and unable to prevent one of your favourite species from their insatiable, accelerating death wish? Do you try to shout louder and more insistently, or instead reinvent yourself as a troubadour of romantic ruin, a barkeep, even a football manager? Such are the dilemmas posed by Rishi Dastidar in his third poetry collection Neptunes Projects, a reshaping of mythology for the climate crisis era which gives