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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

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 Customs (Terracotta arts)
44:58- Interview transition
45:58- Poem recital/ Ashanti- Adjei Agyei-Baa
01:20:20- Poem recital/ A Feast in Ashanti- Kofi Amed
01:43:51- Analysis of the final lines
01:51:43- Song Discussion/ Nnwonkoro (D. Locke/K. Ampene)
01:55:21- Dr H.C. Jones on the Difference between Western and Trad. African Music
01:59:08- Conclusion
02:01:12- Poem/ Gold Coast Customs- Edith Sitwell

Links/Articles mentioned in the episode:


Brendal, Aformeziem. “Kwesi Brew and African Poetry.” Strathclyde, Apr. 2015, www.academia.edu/12056017/Kwesi_Brew_and_African_Poetry.How Poems Work #1 - L. S. Mensah on Kwesi Brew’s “the Sea Eats Our Lands.” www.oneghanaonevoice.com/2010/08/how-poems-work-1-l-s-mensah-on-kwesi.html.Kush, Femi. “Oral Tradition.” Kwasu, May 2018, www.academia.edu/36707753/Oral_Tradition.Persoon, James, et al. “The Early Poetry of Kwesi Brew: An Evaluation.” Kente: Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts, vol. 3, no. 1, May 2022, pp. 40–58. https://doi.org/10.47963/jla.v3i1.835.THE PEOPLE OF GHANA: THEIR ORIGINS AND CULTURES on JSTOR. www.jstor.org/stable/43855009.

Adjei Agyei-Baa/Ashanti Interview
The Oweds - H.C. Jones, PhD 

Poems featured in the episode:

GREEN AFRICA
Horst Wolff
Africa, you catch our eyes
Waking in your sudden bloom
Of giant flowers, rainbow coloured


Generous with limb and life,
You are eternal in your trees
Which crowd, luxuriate and rot;
Returning to return.


Your white-crowned mountain call us up
Your slopes of promise where as eagles
We look down your spread of green
and the metal bodies of your rivers
Bright with points of splintered light.


Dreaming you, where’er I go
I see Ancestors by their fires
Forming worlds from tales and fables.

THE SEA EATS OUR LANDS 

Kwesi Brew
Here stood our ancestral home:
The crumbling wall marks the spot.
Here a sheep was led to slaughter
To appease the gods and atone
For faults which our destiny
Has blossomed into crimes.


There my cursed father once stood
And shouted at us, his children.
To come back from our play
To our evening meal and sleep.
The clouds are thickening in the red sky
And night had charmed
A black power into the pounding waves.


Here once lay Keta.
Now her golden girls
Erode into the arms
Of strange towns.

Hello lovely Listener, my name is Lindsay and you’re listening to 2cents podcast Your Audible Anthology. All the poetry books I’ve reviewed so far were by authors in the mainstream. My commentary was merely a drop in an ocean of reviews and I’d echo similar sentiments found in comments typed off the cuff on Amazon or GoodReads. This episode I am delighted to delve into a collection of poetry by Damian White titled: I Made A Place For You. We will explore how he unpacks his story featuring some recitals from him as well as an appreciation of the collections art and how the written and illustrated elements harmonise to give us an immersive experience of Damian’s narrative.

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This was mentally taxing. 

It was truly a coincidence that this episode was uploaded in time for the Easter holidays.

Happy Easter to those who celebrate!