Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
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Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!

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Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!

About this book

Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In this, his second volume, his writing shows every bit the same verve and excitement that made his first book an unmissable event. Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! takes its cue from the eighteenth-century automaton (a tiger savaging a British soldier) in a series of poems that begin at the throat of the old British Empire. In these vivid, real and sometimes surreal pieces, Daljit Nagra creates his own inimitable linguistic bhaji: where Shakespeare meets the Subcontinent in a range of forms from English sonnets to spectacular displays of 'bollyverse' or the tender love songs of the monsoon. The poems take their bearings from cornershops and classrooms, the strange, part-arcadian, part-hellish streets of 'Londonstan' and the places where the north of England collides with the Punjab: from Larkin to the ladoos in Raja t'Wonder Dog. Little escapes Nagra's tigerish gaze: race relations, family feuds, cultural inheritance, religious bigotry, the British honours system, Rudyard Kipling, the blurring of Kevin Keegan with Kabbadi. Comic, hard-hitting, passionate, satirical, Daljit Nagra has written a book that is as powerfully thought-provoking as it is delightful.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. The Balcony Song of Raju & Jaswinder
  7. The Gob-Smacking Taste of Mine Inheritance!
  8. Phallacy
  9. The 13 O’Clock News
  10. Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
  11. Our Daughter, the Bible Flasher!
  12. The Ascent of a Victorian Woman
  13. Gunga Jumna
  14. The Monsoon Song of Raja Narcissus
  15. This Be the Pukka Verse
  16. Raju t’Wonder Dog!
  17. Transport for Londonstan
  18. Singh in School
  19. A Ballad for Bopoluchi
  20. The Uncanny Cuteness of Being
  21. The Knight
  22. Confessions of a Coolly Woman, Part I
  23. Have I Got Old News for You
  24. Octoroon
  25. The Punjab
  26. ———
  27. Slam!
  28. The Legend of Lispeth
  29. Father Figures
  30. Dance of the Cosmic Brew
  31. Kabbadi Keeegun!!!
  32. The Constant Art
  33. ‘Look there he goes even now, my father’
  34. Ken
  35. A Black History of the English-Speaking Peoples
  36. Bolly Bhaji
  37. About the Author
  38. By the Same Author
  39. Copyright