The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life
- ISBN-10
- 0141984945
- ISBN-13
- 9780141984940
- Series
- The Promised Land
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-03
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Andre Naffis-Sahely
Description
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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