Yellow Gold Emma Brankin Margaret Obank The World’s Embrace

Margaret Obank The World’s Embrace by Abdellatif Laâbi

The novel sets out to retrieve the word at the tip of his tongue

Her memoir Volcano won first prize in the Frank Collymore Literary Arts Endowment in 2005

This isn’t a conventional book of academic essays

and like any great jazz tune - many of which inspire these poems - this collection is full of improvisation

Yellow Gold Emma Brankin Margaret Obank The World’s EmbraceA dentist's girlfriend with cavities, an elderly career criminal with no one to turn to but the police, a dismissed housemaid on the way to a back alley abortion clinic and a crane operator whos never had a man treat her right, for whom gold is cashed out love. These are the stories of the people from Chinas liminal sprawl, who seek a fresh start beyond a neglected countryside that's no longer home and a metropolis indifferent to their existence. As