Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra (born 1966) is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! — a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's ''Look! We have come through!'' and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' — was published by Faber in February 2007. His poems relate to the experience of British-born Indians (especially Indian Sikhs), and often employ language that imitates the English spoken by Indian immigrants whose first language is Punjabi, which some have termed 'Punglish'. He is currently an English teacher at the Jewish Free School in Kenton.

His influences have been cited as including William Blake and Paul Muldoon, but also singers such as Paul Weller and Ray Davies. His work has been published in The Rialto, Poetry London and Poetry Review. In 2004 he won the Forward Poetry Prize for best single poem for Look We Have Coming to Dover!. Nagra's debut collection, which takes the same title, has received extremely positive reviews, has been featured on television and radio, including the prominent BBC programme Newsnight Review, and won the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection.

Daljit Nagra also participated as a judge during the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize and is a judge for the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize.