What person is the poem Island Man by grace nichols written in?

I am currently doing about the poem at school and have had to do homework on it

If you want the poem:

Island Man Grace Nichols

(For a Caribbean island man in London

who still wakes up to the sound of the sea)

Morning and night

and island man wakes up

to the sound of blue surf

in his bed

the steady breaking and wombing

wild pidgeon

and fishermen pushing out to sea

the sun surfacing defiantly

from the east

of his small emerald island

he always comes back groggily groggily

Comes back to sands

of a grey metallic soar

to surge of wheels

in dull North Circular roar

muffling muffling

his crumpled pillow waves

island man heaves himself Another London day Also here is some infomation about the Author:

Grace Nichols was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950 and grew up in a small country village on the Guyanese coast. She moved to the city with her family when she was eight, an experience central to her first novel, Whole of a Morning Sky (1986), set in 1960s Guyana in the middle of the country's struggle for independence.

She worked as a teacher and journalist and, as part of a Diploma in Communications at the University of Guyana, spent time in some of the most remote areas of Guyana, a period that influenced her writings and initiated a strong interest in Guyanese folk tales, Amerindian myths and the South American civilisations of the Aztec and Inca. She has lived in the UK since 1977.

Her first poetry collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman, was published in 1983. The book won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and a subsequent film adaptation of the book was awarded a gold medal at the International Film and Television Festival of New York. The book was also dramatised for radio by the BBC. Subsequent poetry collections include The Fat Black Woman's Poems(1984), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (1989), and Sunris (1996). She also writes books for children, inspired predominantly by Guyanese folklore and Amerindian legends, including Come on into My Tropical Garden (1988) and Give Yourself a Hug (1994). Everybody Got A Gift (2005) which includes new and selected poems.

Her collection Startling the Flying Fish (2006), are poems which tell the story of the Caribbean.

Her latest collection is Picasso, I Want My Face Back(2009).

She lives in England with her partner, the poet John Agard.