Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
Daljit Nagra
Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
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.
4.0 out of 5 based on 2 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Classification |
Fiction |
| Genre |
Poetry |
| Format |
Hardcover |
| Pages |
64 |
| RRP |
£12.99 |
| Date of Publication |
August 2011 |
| ISBN |
978-0571264902 |
| Publisher |
Faber and Faber |
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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.
Reviews
The Observer
Kate Kellaway
"... animated, garrulous, entertaining ..."
31/07/2011
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The Sunday Times
Sean O'Brien
"The verve, energy and startlingly vivid language that distinguished Daljit Nagra’s debut are sustained in Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!"
04/09/2011
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