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An astonishing, dynamic reading by Daljit Nagra of his own hugely acclaimed poetry. Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Costa Poetry Honor. Shortilsted for the Guardian First Booklet Award and success of the South Loan provider Show, Arts Council Decibel Honor 2008. Look We Have Arriving at Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published lately as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose parents came up to Great britain from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian English traditions to share reviews of alienation, assimilation, aspiration and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover Beach to the disenchantment of subsequent decades. In startlingly newly minted terms, with crackling vigour and wicked humour, this collection explores the experience of your second-generation British Punjabi. The contradictory emotions of dislocation, assimilation and alienation in this "flighty mix-up country" are emphasised by the shifts of terms from Punjabi English - "She effing within my mum / in every di colours of Punjabi" - to regional and formal English. Nagra's licence with terms is invigorating - how could you better identify the first get rid of of married life than "darling is so pirouetty with us / for whirlwind hitched month"? Daljit Nagra was born and elevated in West London then Sheffield and currently lives in Willesden, where he works in a second school. Look We Have Arriving at Dover! earned the Forward Prize for Best Specific Poem 2004.
