Look We Have Coming to Dover!
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Asian Interest
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Identity
Immigration
Multiculturalism
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- ISBN 9780571231225
- Weight: 85g
- Dimensions: 131 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
