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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Daljit Nagra
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:64 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 131 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571231225
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| Classifications | Dewey:821.92 |
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Main
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
1 February 2007 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
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