Description
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 was the very first guest poet to read at Verve back in 2017. It was lovely to have him with us, and what a way to kick off our very first festival!
Price £10.99
ISBN: 9780571231225
Date: 1st February 2007
Format: Paperback
Extent: 64 pp
POETRY
