This is Episode 74 of Poems for the Speed of Life.

Today's poem is "What You Mean to Me" by Penny Boxall.

Penny Boxall is a Scottish poet. She has published three collections of poetry, including Ship of the Line, which won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, Scotland’s most prestigious poetry award. She is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Lucy Cavenish College, Cambridge. 

As with all the introductions to poems on this podcast, my perspective is necessarily incomplete. If this or any of the poems in this podcast speak to you in other ways, please allow that to happen. This poem, to me, is a poem about place and identity, and about where place and identity come fully together: home. And it’s also about what happens when our home is no longer home, when we choose or are forced to move and our home becomes — finally, almost grotesquely — home to someone else.

⁠You can read the poem here⁠⁠.

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