{"product_id":"yiewsley-by-daljit-nagra","title":"Yiewsley by Daljit Nagra","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished 21 May 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaljit Nagra’s new collection presents a spirited and stirring return to his boyhood and the town that made him.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\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 Yiewsley, close to Heathrow airport in Outer London. With his boundless curiosity and radically inventive use of the English language, Nagra brings the period alive in poetry that is both eye-opening and heartwarming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs 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, and the intricacies of a multicultural upbringing. Nagra resurrects 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThese poems 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\u003eand hymns at school, to develop a voice entirely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57300399620478,"sku":"9780571396559","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9925\/files\/1776432698.jpg?v=1776939893","url":"https:\/\/www.poetrybooks.co.uk\/products\/yiewsley-by-daljit-nagra","provider":"The Poetry Book Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}