On our season's finale, Tryphena Yeboah, a Ph.D candidate at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and author of "A Mouthful of Home"; whose fiction and essays have also appeared in Narrative Magazine, Commonwealth Writers, and Lit Hub, among others, closes the Ama Ata Aidoo Anthology off with her grace and stunning oratory. Until next year and Season Two, Happy Holidays and Be Well!

Afua Awo Twumwa is a Ghanaian writer of Krobo and Akyem descent. She is an accountant with a keen interest in the performing arts. She has a skilled restraint the way she confesses in poems without necessarily implicating herself when she does not want to. Her poem an elegy.

In our 8th instalment, the very wonderful Tawiah Mensah shares her poem "Black Hole" and speaks about it. In her poem, she quotes and weaves in a line from Sarpong Osei Asamoah, our host's poem "Lost Dogs" published by Protean Magazine's website earlier this year. We hope you enjoy listening.

In this episode Asare Albert Kweku aka K. Asare-Bediako, a highly advanced beginner and author of "PORTRAIT OF MANY COLOURS" published by Ghost City Press, reads his visceral poem "My Country Does Not Know How To Love"

The sixth poem in the series of our Ama Ata Aidoo Anthology is "No Sweetness" by Ago Serwaa, a remarkable new poet who is gradually building an impressive reputation in language.

Our fifth episode in this continuing presentation of The pod's Ama Ata Aidoo Anthology sees guest poet Kwame Boateng, a very unique voice in recent contemporary Ghanaian poetry for his searing queer poetry, read and discuss his process experience of a daringly personal poem he wrote exclusively for our Anthology.

In our fourth episode of the Ama Ata Aidoo Anthology, poet, polyglot, legal practitioner, and women’s rights advocate A’bena Awuku-Larbi reads her poem "The Road That Leads Home" with a beautiful personal note go with it. Spoiler Alert: there is singing!

In this episode, our guest poet, Jay Kophy, author of two poetry collections consecutively in 2021 and '22, who is also undoubtedly a leader of a significant cross-section of his generation of young writers of poems, reads and unpacks his poem "ELEMENTARY" which he composed for exclusively for CanonPodcast.

Our featured poet for this episode is the writer and poet Ivana Akotowaa Ofori (The Spider Kid). In this second episode, she reads her poem "Heat" and speaks about its composition process, and what Ama Ata Aidoo means to her—a young Ghanaian woman writer. In her poem, Akotowaa demonstrates an exquisite language bending technique that makes poetry out of the space around the words on the page. We have posted her poem "Heat" (in text) on our twitter page @Canon_Podcast simultaneously with this episode.

In this introductory episode, our host speaks about Ama Ata Aidoo's incredible ongoing literary legacy which is our reason for beginning this podcast with an anthology in her honour. Through this anthology, these poets—you will hear from in subsequent episodes—have attempted to re-canonise Aunt Ama Ata Aidoo. Having been inspired by her iconic ongoing body of work, they hope to continue in the rigor of the exceptional literary tradition she is credited for. We also have an amazing guest presenter in Dr. Nana Aba Kwenua Pobee reading one of our favourite Ama Ata Aidoo poems.