Title: LETTER TO PATIENCE
Description: '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.
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Imperialism, Poetry