Look We Have Coming to Dover! [Paperback]

"'This is visceral, life-affirming poetry'. Guardian" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Fresh, funny and riotously idiosyncratic ... A glorious testament to a rich British-Indian mix.'

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'Nagra's take on Britain's multicultural experience is full of playful cheek as well as plenty of grit.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Daljit's particular gift is being able to capture Indian voices in Britain.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the much awaited debut from the prize-winning Daljit Nagra.

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.