Episode 117. The Repeat Beat Poet reflects on his poetic, personal, and sonic inspirations that shapes his work and his most recent pamphlet, A Testament To Life & Death.

The Repeat Beat Poet is Peter deGraft-Johnson, a Hip Hop Poet and broadcaster fusing traditional poetics and Hip Hop culture to capture and extend moments of time, thought, and feeling. He has appeared across the UK and internationally while co-founding the Hip Hop open mic night Pen-Ting, being a house emcee with Hip Hop label and jam night Imaginary Millions, and hosting his Hip Hop/Spoken Word radio show #TheRepeatBeatBroadcast, and the multi-award nominated Lunar Poetry Podcast, which is archived in the British Library. The Repeat Beat Poet has been nominated for a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship, was a BBC 1Xtra WordsFirst poet, part of the Roundhouse Collective 2020, and the inaugural Obsidian Foundation.