Career
A title alluding to West. H. Auden"s Look, Stranger!, Doctorate. 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. He currently works part-time at JFS School in Kenton and visits schools, universities and festivals where he performs his work. Daljit Nagra also participated as a judge during the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize and is a judge for the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize.
Nagra"s first pamphlet Oh MY Rub! (Smith/Doorstop) was the Poetry Book Society"s first ever Public Broadcasting Service Pamphlet Choice in 2003.
Daljit’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, Atlantic Review, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry International, The Rialto and The North. He has performed at venues such as Banff, Calgary, Toronto, Bratislava, Galle, Mumbai, Delhi, Orkney, Belfast, Dublin, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Street Andrews, Edinburgh, Ty Newydd and many places in England.
Daljit has been on the Board of the Poetry Book Society and the Poetry Archive. He has also hosted the T. South. Eliot Poetry Readings 2009.
He was the Keats’ House Poet-In-Residence from July 2014 to June 2015, and he was an Eton College Wisdom Scholar in November 2014.
He is the Lead Poetry Tutor at The Faber Academy and has run workshops all over the world. He is a regular contributor to British Broadcasting Corporation radio and has written articles for The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times of India. Anonymously (6 October 2014).
""Novelists are overrated"".
Writer at Work. India Today 39 (40): 73.