About this title: "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 Bello University, across the main road from her bar. She gave up her job partly because of junta pressures on radical academics. The town is volatile - the bar was attacked by the so-called Ayatollahs and would ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Seren
Date Published: 20/04/2006
ISBN-13:9781854114129ISBN:1854114123
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Seren
Date Published: 20/04/2006
ISBN-13:9781854114129ISBN:1854114123
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Seren
Date Published: 20/04/2006
ISBN-13:9781854114129ISBN:1854114123
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Seren
Date Published: 2006-11-01
ISBN-13:9781854114129ISBN:1854114123
Description: New. NEW. A brand new book perfect inside and out. NO remainder markings. Purchase and help a youth pastor with three daughters. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Poetry Wales Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781854114129ISBN:1854114123
Description: New. 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. read more
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