Look We Have Coming to Dover!

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is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Intriguingly, a reader today may find this line even more notable than in 2007 (the year in which the poem was published) due to former Prime Minister David Cameron’s description of migrants crossing the Mediterranean as a “swarm”.

This has been interpreted as representing the shape of the cliffs of Dover; cycles of emigration and immigration; the five oceans of the world; cycles of life, death and rebirth. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, on the Council of the Society of Authors, Advisor to Poetry By Heart, and presents the weekly Poetry Extra on Radio 4 Extra. There is no consistent rhyme or rhythm scheme in the text but the patterning of the lines is similar and a reader can find structure through the images used by Nagra. I have had the honour of profiting from my good friend Daljit's teachings for a number of months now at my secondary school and would go so far as to say I am the finest student in the class, a muse if you will. These social issues make the poem even more interesting to look back on, and could help students to make a whole range of interesting comparison points with other poems.Some readers may also interpret the less even structure as reminding them of their own experience with foreign languages, in which those who are less practiced may struggle to have an even and regular flow of conversation. Prow’d’ also creates a homophone, and therefore simultaneously suggests that the tourists are proud. The link to immigration would become particularly clear with the reference to “Dover” as this is a key point of entry to the UK from mainland Europe as this is at the narrowest stretch of the English Channel.

Nagra's collections have won the Foward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award.It is scary, employed by the speaker to show how those in England would view the immigrants coming to their country.