Look We Have Coming to Dover!
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Publishing Details
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
By (Author) Daljit Nagra
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st February 2007
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.92
Winner of Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2007
Physical Properties
64
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 6mm
85g
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 Bio
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.
