Thank you for listening in 2023! A Shropshire Lad, XL A. E. Housman Into my heart an air that kills     From yon far country blows:   What are those blue remembered hills,     What spires, what farms are those?      That is the land of lost content,   I see it shining plain,   The happy highways where I went     And cannot come again. Walkabout OST ..read more

This episode took me a year to complete. Take your time with it ;) Timestamps: 00:00- Intro poem/ Green Africa- Horst Wolff 01:05- Briefing 02:43- Episode Theme 08:03- Kwesi Brew 09:50- Poem/ The Sea Eats Our Lands 10:26- Analysis 17:21- A Discussion on the Oral Tradition 19:59- Libation/Cobby D Poet 23:20- Article/ The People of Ghana (J. Anquandah) 24:43- Making a New History 25:45- The Cultures of Ghana 29:48- The Peopling of Ghana 33:34- The Language Map of Ghana 37:17- Cultures & People 39:17- Food Culture & Taro Yams 39:54- Ethnomedicare  41:25- Arts, Crafts & Social Cu ..read more

This was mentally taxing.  ..read more

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Just bear with me for this one.   ..read more

Episode Transcript here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1755526/episodes/10743955-song-of-myself-section-9#  ..read more

A deep dive. Time stamps: 00:00- Intro  00:43 - Briefing  02:41- About “isms”  04:54- History of Feminism  08:00- 1st wave  14:30- Stanzas  15:43- Aphra Behn  16:17- The Willing Mistriss  22:20- Sojourner Truth; Ain’t I Woman?  24:44- We As Women  30:00- Akiko Yosano  34:18- Labour Pains  39:52- 2nd wave  42:11- The Counterculture  47:11- Denise Levertov  49:49- The Ache of Marriage  51:03- Mitsuye Yamada  53:08- Marriage Was a Foreign Country  01:00:22- Lesbian Feminist Poetry; Sappho  01:02:40- Od ..read more

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Home body is Rupi Kaur’s third book and it has garnered a commendable 4.8 Stars out of 5 on Amazon and 4.1 out of 5 on Good reads. Kaur is seen as the pioneer of the fairly new sub genre of Instagram poetry, and while Instapoetry isn't as aged as other subgenres yet it has amassed a dedicated following, and in the same breath, there is notable criticism directed at it; aside from the one-liners begging for depth and/or elaboration or the unproductive use of indentations, the greater question lingers; is this type of work considered poetry?  Tune in to hear more ..read more

The imagination is a double-edged sword, that can act in and against our favour. In today's episode we will explore creativity in its pure and most destructive form as it plays out in the written work of those involved in true crime cases.  ..read more