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Doing voices: reading language as craft in black British poetry

GILMOUR, RH; Gilmour, RH (Sage Journals, 2014-04-14)

This essay offers a detailed exploration and comparative reading of two poems published 20 years apart: John Agard’s “Listen Mr Oxford Don” (1985), and Daljit Nagra’s “Kabba Questions the Ontology of Representation, the ...

Punning in Punglish, sounding 'poreign': Daljit Nagra and the politics of language

GILMOUR, RH (Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2015-10-01)

This essay explores Daljit Nagra’s poetry (Look We Have Coming To Dover! (2007), and Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!! (2011)) in the context of contemporary British language politics. It ...