Brexit, the pandemic and the battle with language: An interview with Daljit Nagra

Claire Gail Chambers; Rachael  Gilmour

Brexit, the pandemic and the battle with language: An interview with Daljit Nagra

English and Related Literature

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Abstract

This interview with the well-known poet Daljit Nagra was conducted in summer
2022 by Claire Chambers, with Rachael Gilmour providing questions in absentia
due to a bout of coronavirus. In it, the three discuss such issues as ‘refugee tales’,
poetic ethics and voice, the Brexit referendum’s emboldening of the far right and,
of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. Above all, the conversation turns to Nagra’s
bending of language via his use of ‘babu English’, his interpolation of Hindi and
Punjabi words and his influences from such authors as William Shakespeare, John
Milton and Nissim Ezekiel. Nagra looks in particular towards his fifth, forthcoming
collection Indiom. In these ways, the interview develops on and updates
Chambers’s 2010 interview with Nagra for Crossings and Gilmour’s (2020) chapter
on language and voice in Nagra’s first three collections.

Original language	English
Type	Interview
Media of output	Journal publication
Publisher	Intellect Ltd.
Number of pages	11
Place of Publication	Bristol, UK
Edition	2
Volume	13
ISBN (Print)	2040-4344
Publication status	Published - 30 Jan 2023

Publication series

Name	Crossings: A Journal of Migration and Culture
Publisher	Intellect
No.	2
Volume	13
ISSN (Print)	2040-4344

Keywords

conversation
multiculturalism
poetic voice
Brexit – EU referendum
British Museum
COVID-19 pandemic

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