{"product_id":"9780571264919","title":"Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! by Daljit Nagra","description":"Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit  Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the  Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In this, his  second volume, his writing shows every bit the same verve and excitement  that made his first book an unmissable event. Tippoo Sultan's  Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! takes its cue from  the eighteenth-century automaton (a tiger savaging a British soldier) in  a series of poems that begin at the throat of the old British Empire.  In these vivid, real and sometimes surreal pieces, Daljit Nagra creates  his own inimitable linguistic bhaji: where Shakespeare meets the  Subcontinent in a range of forms from English sonnets to spectacular  displays of 'bollyverse' or the tender love songs of the monsoon. The  poems take their bearings from cornershops and classrooms, the strange,  part-arcadian, part-hellish streets of 'Londonstan' and the places where  the north of England collides with the Punjab: from Larkin to the  ladoos in Raja t'Wonder Dog. Little escapes Nagra's tigerish gaze: race  relations, family feuds, cultural inheritance, religious bigotry, the  British honours system, Rudyard Kipling, the blurring of Kevin Keegan  with Kabbadi. Comic, hard-hitting, passionate, satirical, Daljit Nagra  has written a book that is as powerfully thought-provoking as it is  delightful.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292617945461,"sku":"9780571264919","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571264919.jpg?v=1762750080","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571264919","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}