Letter to Patience

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John Haynes

‘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.

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Weight 114 g
Dimensions 21.5 × 13.7 × 1 cm
Author

Publisher

Seren
Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

79
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

821.914 (edition:22)
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