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| Look We Have Coming To Dover! (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Full blurb:
Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold’s ‘land of dreams’, the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multi-cultural Britain with wit, intelligence and a 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. Look We Have Coming To Dover! is by turns realist and romantic. These charged poems never shy from confrontation, but remain, always touched by a humorous zeal and an appetite for living.
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First page first lines:
From Darling & Me! - ’Di barman’s bell done dinging/so I phone di dimply-mississ/Putting some gas on cookah/bonus pay I bringin!’ ...
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra was born and raised in West London, then Sheffield. He is currently an English teacher at the Jews' Free School, Kenton. Look We Have Coming To Dover! won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2007. His work has been published in The Rialto, Poetry London and Poetry Review. He is a judge for the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize.
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Reviews:
'This is visceral, life-affirming poetry'. Guardian.
‘Fresh, funny and riotously idiosyncratic ... A glorious testament to a rich British-Indian mix.' – Independent.
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| Book code: BTD060 |
| Price: GBP £ 2.00 |
| USD $ 3.50 |
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