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Global Anglophone PoetryLiterary Citizenship in Daljit Nagra

Global Anglophone Poetry: Literary Citizenship in Daljit Nagra [In the title poem of his debut collection Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007), Daljit Nagra (b. 1966) updates Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” to imagine the conditions of stowaways “huddled” in the bottom of a British cruiser, while above deck, “cushy come-and-go / tourists” stand at the head of the prow “lording the ministered waves” (32). Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem 2004, “Look We Have Coming to Dover!” goes on to describe the tumultuous process by which undocumented migrants, after disembarking from the ship, eventually “escape hutched in a Bedford van” before working illegally for “seasons or years,” all the while “unclocked by the national eye.” 1 Besides nodding to “Dover Beach,” Nagra also invokes D. H. Lawrence’s Look! We Have Coming Through! (1917) as well as W. H. Auden’s Look, Stranger! (1936), later re-titled On This Island (1937), and “Dover 1937” to mediate his concerns over migration, nonbelonging, and citizenship in contemporary Britain, the focus of this chapter.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Global Anglophone PoetryLiterary Citizenship in Daljit Nagra

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
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978-1-349-56183-4
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121 –154
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10.1057/9781137499615_5
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[In the title poem of his debut collection Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007), Daljit Nagra (b. 1966) updates Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” to imagine the conditions of stowaways “huddled” in the bottom of a British cruiser, while above deck, “cushy come-and-go / tourists” stand at the head of the prow “lording the ministered waves” (32). Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem 2004, “Look We Have Coming to Dover!” goes on to describe the tumultuous process by which undocumented migrants, after disembarking from the ship, eventually “escape hutched in a Bedford van” before working illegally for “seasons or years,” all the while “unclocked by the national eye.” 1 Besides nodding to “Dover Beach,” Nagra also invokes D. H. Lawrence’s Look! We Have Coming Through! (1917) as well as W. H. Auden’s Look, Stranger! (1936), later re-titled On This Island (1937), and “Dover 1937” to mediate his concerns over migration, nonbelonging, and citizenship in contemporary Britain, the focus of this chapter.]

Published: Dec 1, 2015

Keywords: Political Representation; Postcolonial Theory; British Poetry; British Citizenship; Colonial Discourse

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