Patience Agbabi Poems

Patience Agbabi is a British poet and performer. Her poetry engages with important contemporary themes, but it often uses formal constraints more commonly seen in traditional poetry. Her collections include Telling Tales and The Wife of Bafa. 

Eat Me

by Patience Agbabi

Within ‘Eat Me’ Agbabi explores themes of abuse, control, and revenge. The tone is at times withdrawn, and submissive, and

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