Dear Mr. Bacca,

My name is Josh Hobbs and i go to The London Nautical school. I am writing to talk and ask some questions. In my English class my teacher introduced us to one of your poems and we have been reading it for a few lessons. While we have been reading it we have seen that your childhood was not the best. One of the reasons for that is because you were in an orphanage. Also you were left by your parents so that could have been the reason why you were in prison.

As you lived in an orphanage, when you came out you go into some bad things and went to prison. In prison you wanted to learn English literature and they wouldn’t let you so you got sent to solitary confinement and some how managed to teach yourself. How hard was it to teach yourself English literature?. Whilst teaching yourself how did you physically cope with teaching yourself in prison?. When I try to teach myself how to do thing i always get frustrated or even sometimes i’ll give up and just wont try. Also when I try to teach it ends up my mother teaching me so that is why you so inspiring and also tells us that if you try hard you will get somewhere.

When you came out of prison and settled down with your life we now that you started to write poems and then became a poet and wrote poems about your past and present. When you first came out of prison did you have any family to go and stay with or even to talk to? I think it is essential that family should always be together and be there if you need them. Also when i have issues i have my mum or dad to speak to. So that is why i think family should always be there for other family members.

From reading some of your poems in class it has given me a better understanding of your life and your past. It is amazing how you have turned your life around, do you thinks prison has had any effect on your choices to making you a better man?. From the way you wrote ‘immigrants in our own land’ i got the impression that you found it extremely difficult to accept new arrivals coming into ‘our own land’, why was this?. when i first went to school i think people found it hard to see that i was new and that could relate to your situation but then they got to now me and they found that i was ok. So that is why you should’ve tried to talk and get to now the new people that were coming in.

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your poems and learning about your life. The circumstances you went through sound horrific and you are a very strong man seeing as you have been through so much, and still remain  positive is really inspiring. I look forward to hearing your response to my questions. Your sincerely Joshua Hobbs.