Oops. I got so carried away with preparing to go abroad that the prompt slipped backwards.
Going abroad. What exactly does that mean? Stepping out of the front door? Taking a ferry overseas? Emigrating, immigrating? Here are Brian Patten, George Szirtes and Michael Donaghy on the subject:
Brian Patten, Geography Lesson: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/geography-lesson
George Szirtes, Preston North End: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/preston-north-end
Michael Donaghy, Shibboleth: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/shibboleth
The Poetry Archive has many diverse and mind-boggling poems about ‘abroad’ – you can explore more of them here: http://www.poetryarchive.org/explore/browse-poems?f[0]=type%3Apoem&f[1]=field_themes%3A99
Going abroad.