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The promised land : poems from itinerant life

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While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives.

Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . . __________________________________________________Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day London to North America, André Naffis-Sahely's bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: labourers, travellers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. 'Naffis-Sahely's poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk . . . His narratives hold memory to account'DAVID HARSENT

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Penguin Books Ltd
0141984937 / 9780141984933
Paperback / softback
821.92
03/08/2017
United Kingdom
English
65 pages
20 cm