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Look We Have Coming to Dover!

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Daljit Nagra
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:64
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 131
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571231225
ClassificationsDewey:821.92
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 1 February 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 gazed 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.

Author Biography

Daljit Nagra was born and raised in West London, then Sheffeild and currently lives in Willesden where he works in a secondary school. Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the Forawrd Prize for Best Individual Poem 2004.