{"product_id":"yiewsley-by-daljit-nagra-9780571396559","title":"Yiewsley","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spirited and stirring return to the poet's boyhood and the town that made him\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis autobiographical collection candidly explores Daljit Nagra's experiences growing up from the sixties to the eighties in the predominantly white working-class town of \u003ci\u003eYiewsley\u003c\/i\u003e, close to Heathrow airport in Outer London. As Britain transitions from a post-war manufacturing economy to the Thatcher years and the computer age, we see a young boy navigating childhood friendships and mishaps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems bring to life a bustling house filled with relatives from India, who had arrived, legally or otherwise, in the UK: \"devout realists already, and always, knuckled into work.\" They also offer powerful insight into the makings of the writer: the \"messy English\" at home fusing with Bollywood ballads, \u003ci\u003eTop of the Pops\u003c\/i\u003e and hymns at school, to develop a voice entirely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Nagra's poems] do that rare thing in poetry of stretching language, making it do things it hasn't done before. It's multiculturalism at its most complex, individual and real.\" \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book of guts and heart, an honest, often polemical collection that posits worn-on-the-sleeve, personal and public questions without implying simple answers.\" \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, on \u003ci\u003eBritish Museum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47664195698924,"sku":"9780571396559","price":49.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571396559-yiewsley.jpg?v=1779662345","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/yiewsley-by-daljit-nagra-9780571396559","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}