Letter to Patience

by John Haynes

Winner of the 2006 Costa Poetry Award

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.

He writes to Patience, the bar's owner, a woman in her 30s who once lectured in politics at Ahmadu...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854114123
• ISBN13: 9781854114129
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Seren Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 9.3"