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  Look We Have Coming to Dover! (Paperback) By (author) Daljit Nagra

  

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  Short Description for Look We Have Coming to Dover!Explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain. The author, 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.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 01 February 2007
  • Format: Paperback 64 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9780571231225 ISBN 10: 0571231225
  • Sales rank: 179,636

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• 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.