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Daljit Nagra Quotes

born 1966 England

Daljit Nagra (born 1966) is a British poet of Indian ancestry whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, was published in February 2007.

England
Poets

Also known as: Nagra, Daljit

Random Daljit Nagra quote

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Poetry…is an espresso shot of thought and public poetry is as necessary as it ever was.

All the girls say they love me
all their mums say I'm lovely —
ever since I lived in the clouds.

You either do it quietly and describe the Indian community in half a dozen poems or you think sod it, and go all out. The most Indian way I could think of was to do monologues and voices.

Poetry was a meeting of mind and heart, I felt at one with poetry itself. I like the concentrated language, the play with form, and the way you can muck around with words in a way that you can’t in a novel. Poetry allows you to be intense, because to some degree people expect it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daljit Nagra (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.