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The strikingly moving poems in Caroline Smiths The Immigration Handbook are the fruit of the authors career as an Immigration Caseworker for one of the most diverse inner-city areas in London. Her characters are careful composites of people shes observed. They step vividly off the page, as if out of the headlines and we meet them: such as the battered Russian boxer in hiding; such as Dr. Khan, who has been walking to Hounslow each week for seven years to sign his name; such as the nurse who, denied citizenship for a petty crime, kills herself, as she believes this is the only way her children might be allowed to stay in the UK. Interspersed with these sometimes harrowing stories, there are quieter poems where the contrast between first and third worlds pricks the conscience as with the Brazilian cleaner, Esta Cunha de Silva, in Domestic Worker who picks rhubarb in an English garden while remembering the sounds of chainsaws in the Amazon, and with Mr. Giang, who speaks sixty-two Vietnamese bird languages but hasnt yet mastered English. All through this book the dramatic emotions of the immigrants, veering between hope and despair, are conveyed with simple descriptions of their cir

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Author

Caroline Smith

Publisher

Seren Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781723234

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, General & Miscellaneous Poetry