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This week Gyles and Aphra Brandreth’s journey takes them to Lesotho, a land locked, mountainous country in Africa. They speak to Rethabile Masilo, an award winning poet who is the author of four poetry collections: Things that are Silent (Pindrop Press, 2012), Waslap (The Onslaught Press, 2015), Letter to Country (Canopic, 2016) and Qoaling (The Onslaught Press, 2018). Ratahabile shares his story growing up in Lesotho before being exiled with his family at the age of 20. His poems draw on his life experiences and the traumas that he and his family faced. Poems this episode include: My Mother Says She Sees Him; and The Boy Who Would Die, both by Rethabile Masilo
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This week Gyles and Aphra Brandreth’s journey takes them to Lesotho, a land locked, mountainous country in Africa. They speak to Rethabile Masilo, an award winning poet who is the author of four poetry collections: Things that are Silent (Pindrop Press, 2012), Waslap (The Onslaught Press, 2015), Letter to Country (Canopic, 2016) and Qoaling (The Onslaught Press, 2018). Ratahabile shares his story growing up in Lesotho before being exiled with his family at the age of 20. His poems draw on his life experiences and the traumas that he and his family faced. Poems this episode include: My Mother Says She Sees Him; and The Boy Who Would Die, both by Rethabile Masilo

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