Promised Land

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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Flittingfrom the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, toweringconstructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood,from present-day London to North America, André Naffis-Sahely'sbracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promisedlands 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