Look We Have Coming to Dover!
英国における移民コミュニティを、ユーモアと切実さの両方で描くデビュー詩集。英語とインド系英語の混交が、そのまま作品の推進力になっている。
作品情報
移り住んだあとの英国を、内側から見つめ直す。
Daljit Nagra の2007年刊デビュー詩集。Faber and Faber 版は、パンクな言葉遊びと社会的観察を行き来しながら、英印混交の声で英国の移民経験を描き出す。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Faber & Faber
- 発売日
- 2007-02-01
- ページ数
- 64ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.1 x 0.6 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780571231225
- ISBN-10
- 0571231225
- 価格
- 2372 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
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 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 Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award. He lives with his family in Harrow.
レビュー
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Perfect
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British poetry isn't what it used to be. This had a great advance billing but it left me disappointed and wanting my money back. It wants to be fun but it just comes off as foolish, and I was left asking why I paid for someone else's indulgence.
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This is simply one of the best contemporary anthologies I've read and one of the very few I return to again and again with relish. Borrowing Neil Bloodaxe Astley's words re poetry, this is poetry which exudes 'the fullest and most subtle flavour'. Its rhythmical, phonetic delicacies offer a colourful insight into British-Asian culture and are an inspiration to read. Thanks Daljit! (I'm surprised there aren't more reviews for such a brilliant collection!)
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Good reading material
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Fast delivery. A wonderful collection of poems from a brilliant poet.
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