Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Immigration Handbook, The
Immigration Handbook, The
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad o gerddi gan Caroline Smith a ysbrydolwyd gan ei phrofiad o weithio fel gweithiwr achos mewnfudiad.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Inspired by her years as an Immigration Caseworker to one of the most diverse inner-city areas in the UK, Caroline Smith has written a collection of poems that details the many troubling and moving incidents in the lives of those she tries to help. A book that reaches out of the headlines into the heart.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781723210
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781723210
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Immigration Handbook, The
- Awdur / Author
- Smith, Caroline
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2016-07-08
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Editor
- Wack, Amy
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 72 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Barddoniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Poetry (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Beirdd Unigol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Individual Poets (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Caroline Smith was born in Ilford and grew up in Hertfordshire. She originally trained as a sculptor at Goldsmith's College. Her first publication was a 30-page narrative poem 'Edith' about a Lancashire-born woman who eventually works for 35 years as a nanny in Glasgow but is haunted by a secret from her pre-war life that slowly unravels as the story proceeds. Smith's first full collection, The Thistles of the Hesperides, (Flambard) is about the community of West Pilton in Scotland where Caroline lived in the 1980s when it was one of the most deprived housing estates in Europe. Using imagery and structure from Greek mythology, and direct stories from observed lives, the poet weaves a dense and dramatic tension between the harshness of reality and the lyricism of myth. Published widely in journals like Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, Staple, Orbis and Stand, she has twice won prizes in the Troubadour Poetry Competition. Smith has had work set to music, broadcast on the BBC and is also the author of a musical play, The Bedseller's Tale, that was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She lives in London with her family.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
About Seren: Seren is an independent publisher specialising in English-language writing from Wales. Seren’s wide-ranging list includes poetry, fiction, translation, biography, art and history. Seren’s authors are shortlisted for – and win – major literary prizes across Britain and America. Publishers of: 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize: Significance by Jo Mazelis 2014 Costa Poetry Awards Prize-Winner: My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards 2014 T S Eliot Shortlisted: Fauverie by Pascale Petit 2014 Wales Book of the Year, Fiction Category Winner: The Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch
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