Author: Yogesh Patel
Yogesh Patel
(Yogesh Patel is an author and poet who is the winner of multiple international awards. He has received an MBE for literature from the late Queen and holds the honour of the Freedom of the City of London)
In his new collection of poems, Yiewsley, Daljit Nagra pulls English taut — then lets the recoil do the work The British Raj conquered territory; it never conquered the Punjabi tongue. In Yiewsley, one of the UK’s most celebrated poets, Daljit Nagra, shows what happens when that tongue bends English instead, until the language of empire carries the music of Punjab within it. Here, he once again tests what English can contain, stretching it, reshaping it, and letting it snap back with force. Nagra, who grew up in Yiewsley, a London suburb, during the 1970s and ’80s, returns to the…
