The Library with Mannie Mensah

The Library with Mannie Mensah

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The Library with Mannie Mensah episodes

  • Episode 7: When Great Trees Fall

 by Maya Angelou

    When great trees fall,


    rocks on distant hills shudder,

    lions hunker down

    in tall grasses,

    and even elephants

    lumber after safety.

    When great trees fall


    in forests,

    small things recoil into silence,

    their senses

    eroded beyond fear.

    When great souls die,


    the air around us becomes

    light, rare, sterile.

    We breathe, briefly.
    Our eyes, briefly,

    see with

    a hurtful clarity.

    Our memory, suddenly sharpened,

    examines,

    gnaws on kind words

    unsaid,

    promised walks

    never taken.

    Great souls die and


    our reality, bound to

    them, takes leave of us.

    Our souls,

    dependent upon their

    nurture,

    now shrink, wizened.

    Our minds, formed

    and informed by their

    radiance,
fall away.

    We are not so much maddened

    as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of
    dark, cold

    caves.

    And when great souls die,


    after a period peace blooms,

    slowly and always

    irregularly. Spaces fill

    with a kind of

    soothing electric vibration.

    Our senses, restored, never

    to be the same, whisper to us.

    They existed. They existed.

    We can be. Be and be

    better. For they existed.

    2 min
  • *Special Episode 6* We Are Here.

    Welcome to a special episode of the Library Podcast celebrating Black History Month in collaboration with the Feminist Library.

    The Feminist Library now based at the Sojourner Truth Centre on Sumner Road, Peckham, has an exhibition titled WE ARE HERE: How Black Women have been the backbone to radical social movements.

    Celebrating the work of Black Women using the libraries archival material. From Activists to Educators, Writers and artists if you would like to know more about the exhibition visit the Feminist Library’s website.

    Today we will be reading some our favourite poems by Black Women Poets

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    5 min
  • Episode 5: Where Do You Enter by Nikki Giovanni
    Falling in Love can be one of the most affirming feelings one can encounter.Staying in Love can be compared to writing a poem. In this episode we read the wonderful Nikki Giovanni's poem "Where do you enter?"Explore the poem for yourself below:Where do...
    1 min

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