British Museum
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British Museum

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eBook - ePub

British Museum

About this book

Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry. British Museum is his third collection, following his electrifying version of the epic Ramayana, and marks a significant departure of style to something quieter, more contemplative and inquisitive, at times valedictory. His political edge has been honed in a series of meditations and reflections upon our heritage, our legacy, and the institutions that define them: the BBC, Hadrian's Wall, the Sikh gurdwaras of our towns, the British Museum of the title poem. With compassion and charisma, Nagra explores the impact of the first wave of mass migration to our shores, the Arab Spring, the allure of extremism along with a series of personal poems about the pressures of growing up in a traditional community. British Museum is a book that asks profound questions of our ethics and responsibilities at a time of great challenge to our sense of national identity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Father of Only Daughters
  7. Vox Populi, Vox Dei
  8. Prayer for Gurdwara
  9. Broadcasting House
  10. Cane
  11. Naugaja
  12. Hadrian’s Wall
  13. ā€˜Even when we weren’t touching we were making love’
  14. Philanthropy
  15. He Do the Foreign Voices
  16. On Your ā€˜A 1940 Memory’
  17. The Vishnu of Wolverhampton
  18. The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge
  19. From the Ambient Source
  20. Sleeping in Lindau
  21. Ode to England
  22. Commemorating Mr Kumar
  23. The Look of Love
  24. The Dream of Mr Bulram’s English
  25. GET OFF MY POEM WHITEY
  26. Ghazal
  27. Olivier’s Othello
  28. Aubade
  29. The Poetry Library at Southbank Centre
  30. The Calling
  31. Shame
  32. Meditations on the British Museum
  33. About the Author
  34. By the Same Author
  35. Copyright