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Summary
Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian-English traditions to tell stories of alienation, assimilation, aspiration and love, from a stowaway’s first footprint on Dover Beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations.
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Daljit Nagra was born into a working-class, Sikh family in London. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London, Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, Lead 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…
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