Immigration Handbook
Subtitle: Poems by Caroline Smith
Publisher: Seren Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781781723210
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Description: Vividly detailed and emotionally powerful, The Immigration Handbook is as revealing as it is timely. Here we meet with the individual that the news stories only speak of as numbers. These are lives fraught with violence and tragedy that Caroline Smith has encounters in her work as the asylum caseworker for a London MP. We journey with them through the labyrinthine government bureaucracies they must navigate to survive. With clarity and integrity she lays before us stories of stoic resilience and humorous forbearance, of kindness to others and of joy in the midst of sorrow. These are poems that step out of the headlines and into our hearts.