Poetry Unlimited - Leaving Home at Ten and Death Of A Poem

Today we feature late Nigerian intellectual and poet, Harry Garuba. Garuba died at the age of 61 last week after a protracted struggle with Leukaemia. He was a professor in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town for over two decades.

In 1982 Harry Garuba published his first collection of poems titled: Shadow and Dream and Other Poems. Take a listen to his poem, Death of A poem from that publication…