This poem is included in the digital library as part of a partnership between the OHSU Library and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative to share Narrative Medicine curriculum and the items used in those teaching sessions. For additional information about how the poem is used in teaching and a community driven context, please visit Accessible Narrative Medicine website.

Raymond Antrobus was born in London. His mother is English and his father Jamaican. In addition to the 2019 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award, he received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2017 as well. In 2021, he released a second complete collection of poetry titled All The Names Given. (Source: tinhouse.com)