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Hello, lovely listener!

I am still your host, Lindsay and, wow; you’re still listening to 2centspnf, Your Audible Anthology.

This episode is an exercise in accountability :)

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Sections mentioned:

• Shared Atoms
• Brahma
• Hundreds of affections

Ecological Spirituality by D.P. St John (article)

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Hello lovely listener. Happy New Year; I’ve been meaning to get back to you but I must get something off my chest. 

I really enjoy making these episodes and I am especially encouraged by your interactions with them, but I‘ve been finding myself in something of a prolonged freeze response; especially in the past months where I struggle to write, record and produce as I used to. 

Seeing that this podcast is relatively young I didn't think the issues I have with perfectionism would rise to the surface so soon but my need for “Shadow work” as it were has finally come to my attention. 

This isn’t to say that I won’t be uploading any episodes but I thought it important to say something especially since we’re in the middle of a couple of series’. I also think of this as a way of loosening the self-imposed reins regarding what makes a good episode or podcast in general. 

As always, thank you for listening and you’ll hear from me very soon. 

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Hello Lovely Listener!

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Asclepiades poems
• The Mellarium

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References:

• Carrubba, Robert W. “Apollo and Leuconoe in Horace, ‘Odes’ I, II.” Quaderni Urbinati Di Cultura Classica, vol. 74, no. 2, Jan. 2003, p. 133. https://doi.org/10.2307/20546778.
• Grimm, R. E. “Horace’s ‘Carpe Diem.’” The Classical Journal, vol. 58, no. 7, 1963, pp. 313–18. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3294690. Accessed 1 Apr. 2024.

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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

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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

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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.

Damian's social media
Read I Made A Place For You

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This was mentally taxing. 

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

Happy Easter to those who celebrate!

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Link to the episode:

https://youtu.be/7R1KJybcjwg