Look We Have Coming to Dover!-SIGNED FIRST PRINTING

Nagra, Daljit

ISBN 10: 0571231225 / ISBN 13: 9780571231225

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2007

About this Item

Fine first printing in fine wrappers. A softback original. Signed by the author to the title page, without inscription.

Seller Inventory # 004043

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Look We Have Coming to Dover!-SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571231225
• ISBN 13: 9780571231225
• Binding: Original Wraps
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Daljit Nagra was born into a working-class, Sikh family in London. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, on the Council of the Society of Authors, Advisor to Poetry By Heart, and presents the weekly Poetry Extra on Radio 4 Extra. Nagra's collections have won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award. He lives with his family in Harrow.