Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration, assimilation, alienation and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. By turns realist and romantic, these charged and challenging poems never shy from confrontation, but remain, always, touched by a humorous zeal and an appetite for living.
Daljit Nagra was born and raised in West London, then Sheffield, and currently lives in Willesden where he works in a secondary school. 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!' won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem 2004.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571231225 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571231225 |
| Title | Look We Have Coming to Dover! |
| Author | Daljit Nagra |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2007-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Winner of Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2007, Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2007 |
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