Your Father Walks Like A Crab (Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry)

Many people hate poetry, but everybody loves a good story. So, how do you make someone who hates poetry read poetry?

Simply write poetry that’s vivid, witty and relatable, telling stories that the reader can easily identify with, poetry that can be read and enjoyed effortlessly, yet retaining the essence of poetry.

This is what Tolu’ Akinyemi has done with ‘Your Father Walks Like a Crab’ and the 123 poems it contains, presenting an appeal to people who would not normally read poetry.

It is fresh, vivid, whimsical, somewhat cheeky and sprinkled with wit and humour.
It is about relationships: familial, platonic or romantic; it is also about beauty and of course, love – the love of it, the hate of it, the wait for it, the praise of it, the search for it, the find of it, the fall into it, the rejection of it and also the ‘things’ that get broken by it.