Description
A cast of ‘Indic-heritage poets’ meets to perform poems and discuss the future of poetry. indiom engages eclectic, often Rabelaisian styles on subjects as various as the Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel, Shakespearean comedy, Under Milk Wood, The Simpsons and Newcastle United.
Daljit Nagra’s mock epic scrutinises the legacies of Empire and issues such as power and status, casteism and colourism, mimicry and mockery. What is Britishness now? How can humour help us survive hardship? The result is a capacious ‘talkie’/poem/play of resistance and redress whose ludic structures defy boundaries: a story of intertextual and misplaced identities, gods and miracles, celluloid tragedy and blushing romantic desire amid an awkwardly rolling cricket ball and rioting poodles.







Notebook of a Return to My Native Land
Spiritlands
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
The 'White City'
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds
The Genre of Silence
My Family and Other Superheroes
Fauverie
Ten Poems About Horses
A Quarter of an Hour
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
Gold from the Stone
States of Happiness
Being Alive
Somewhere Else Entirely
Disturbance
Midnight, Dhaka
Milk and Honey
This Is Yarrow
Over the Moon