I Love Poetry and I Love It

I grew up while I was born in Nigeria and we lived there until I was about seven. And then we moved to Zimbabwe, but each year we used to come back to England by sea because my dad had his long leave as an academic. My mother just had a huge fund of poetry that she just she didn't sit me down and say now we're going to do poetry. The poems just came up spontaneously. So for example, I can I can remember, you know, being out at sea and I love the moment when the ship finally left the shore. We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea. That idea means a lot to me now as a man struggling in