{"product_id":"yiewsley-signed-edition","title":"Yiewsley (Signed Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA spirited and stirring return to the poet's boyhood and the town that made him\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\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. 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. The 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTop of the Pops\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and hymns at school, to develop a voice entirely his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55729277895041,"sku":"9780571396559","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0244\/8444\/6286\/files\/Yiewsley.png?v=1779877706","url":"https:\/\/shop.bl.uk\/products\/yiewsley-signed-edition","provider":"British Library Online Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}