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‘Letter to Patience’ is a book-length poem in iambic pentameter, set in Patience’s Parlour, a small, mud-walled bar in northern Nigeria in 1993 – a time of political unrest. The writer of the letter has returned to Britain, with his Nigerian wife and children, to nurse his dying father.
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Explores the political and cultural situation of contemporary Nigeria through a relationship. The letter to her, written from the geographical and cultural distance of southern England is a narrative of how the personal and the political meet and react.
| Weight | 114 g |
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| Dimensions | 21.5 × 13.7 × 1 cm |
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| Publisher | Seren |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 79 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 821.914 (edition:22) |
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