{"title":"Daljit Nagra","description":"Daljit Nagra was born and brought up in West London and Sheffield. He lives in London, and works as a secondary school English teacher. In 2003, he won the Smith\/Doorstop pamphlet competition with \u003cem\u003eOh my Rub!\u003c\/em\u003e, a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice which was chosen as one of the Guardian's Poetry Books of the Year.\n\nIn 2004, his poem \u003cem\u003eLook We Have Coming to Dover!\u003c\/em\u003e won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and this became the title of his first collection, published by Faber \u0026amp; Faber in 2007. It went on to win the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and the 2008 Arts Council England Decibel Award. It relates to the experience of British-born Indians, and often employs 'Punglish' - English spoken by Indian Punjabi immigrants. \u003cem\u003eLook We Have Coming to Dover!\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for several further awards, including the 2007 Costa Poetry Award, and the 2007 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.\n\nDaljit Nagra co-edited the Spread the Word anthology \u003cem\u003eTen\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) with Bernardine Evaristo. Selections of his own poems are included in \u003cem\u003eThe Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Jeet Thayil (Bloodaxe Books, 2008), and \u003cem\u003eIdentity Parade: New British \u0026amp; Irish Poets\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books, 2010).\n","products":[{"product_id":"the-north-47-25-years-in-the-north","title":"The North 47: 25 Years in the North","description":"\"Stars in the north are seen not to set.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems, articles, reviews and features - including 25 year poems and reflections on 25 years of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus Poets I Go Back To, The Collection and Blind Criticism. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040766284,"sku":"22305-0269-9885","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_71c19a2f-369e-4395-8bcb-aadb933a4eed.jpeg?v=1752237112"},{"product_id":"poetry-wales-winter-200910","title":"Poetry Wales - Winter 2009\/10","description":"Features include ‘Mongoose Music’ – Robert Minhinnick on translation in a conflict zone, farming and harmonics in Carol Watts’ \u003ci\u003eZeta Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e, and Nerys Williams on the longer poems of Robert Minhinnick, Gwyneth Lewis and John James.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems from Paul Henry, Sheenagh Pugh, John Powell Ward, Peter Gill, David Kennedy, Chris Pusateri, Omar Sabbagh, Christopher James, Nigel Jarrett, Kona MacPhee, Alison Brackenbury, Pete Marshall, Jim Goar, Ioana Nicolaie (translated by Adam Sorkin and Irma Giannetti), Robert Nisbet, Mark Goodwin, Elisabeth Rowe, John Fraser Williams, Kate Potts, Anna Woodford, Steve Griffiths, Yoko Minamikawa Adams, T.H. 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It offers the reader the freedom to come to whatever conclusions they want to about what writing as a poet who is also Black and British might mean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a book of poets ranging from well-established and published writers to first time poets. \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e does find its usual associations with blood, violence, passion, and anger. Sometimes it is linked with sensuality and sexuality. But there are surprises, when red defines a memory or mood, the quality of light in a sky, the colour of skin, the sound of a song, and much, much more. The anthology, therefore, succeeds in producing poems that seem to be first about image, and only then about whatever else fascinates the poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sense, \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is a different kind of anthology of Black British writing, and the richness of the entries, the moods, the humour, the passion, the reflection, the confessional all confirm that Black British poetry is a lively and defining force in Britain today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor Kwame Dawes is a poet, novelist, playwright and critic. His work as an organiser and deliverer of poetry workshops has been hailed in many parts of the world, not least in the UK, USA and Jamaica, where he has been the Literary programmer of the Calabash International Literature Festival for the past ten years. 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