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 and raised in West London, then Sheffield. He currently lives in Harrow with his wife and daughters and works in a secondary school. His first collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. In 2008 he won the South Bank Show/Arts Council Decibel Award. Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2011.