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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 . . .

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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

The Promised Land Poems from Itinerant Life

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 03/08/2017
    ISBN13: 9780141984933, 978-0141984933
    ISBN10: 0141984937
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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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