Daljit Nagra

Yiewsley

Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 96 Seiten
ISBN 0571396550
EAN 9780571396559
Veröffentlicht 28. Juli 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Faber & Faber
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Beschreibung

A spirited and stirring return to the poet's boyhood and the town that made him
This autobiographical collection explores Daljit Nagra's experiences growing up in the white, working-class suburban town of Yiewsley close to Heathrow airport in Outer London, from the 1960s to 80s. As Britain transitions from a postwar manufacturing economy to the Thatcher period and the computer age, we see a young boy navigating childhood friendships and mishaps. The poems bring to life a bustling house filled with relatives from India who arrived, legally or otherwise, in the UK: 'devout realists - already, and always, knuckled into work'. They also offer powerful insight into the makings of the writer: the 'messy English' at home fusing with Bollywood ballads, Top of the Pops and hymns at school, to develop a voice entirely his own.

Portrait

Daljit Nagra has published five books of poetry with Faber, including the Forward Prize-winning Look We Have Coming to Dover! He is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, former Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, on the Society of Authors Council and presenter of Radio 4 Extra's Poetry Extra.

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