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Lindsay Thebe
Hello Lovely Listener! 2centspnf, expansively, 2cents poetry 'n film is a podcast dedicated to all things poetry; analyses, news, poetry books and all poets- pioneers, upcoming and aspiring. The podcast is hosted by Lindsay, an avid sketcher and unfledged writer who enjoys tea and taking photos. In the words of M. H. Abrams, "A vital literary culture is always on the move." , 2cents hopes to present you with an audible anthology that captures this vitality.
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Links mentioned in the episode:
- Asclepiades poems
- The Mellarium
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- 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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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
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
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
Of strange towns.
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 mediaRead I Made A Place For You
It was truly a coincidence that this episode was uploaded in time for the Easter holidays.
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In this section Whitman takes a break from his extensive catalogue which provides the opportunity for a deep dive into his philosophy.
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16
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse and stuff’d with the stuff
that is fine,
One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and
the largest the same,
A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and
hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the
limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin
leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian,
A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier,
Badger, Buckeye;
At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with
fishermen off Newfoundland,
At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and
tacking,
At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or
the Texan ranch,
Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners,
(loving their big proportions,)
Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake
hands and welcome to drink and meat,
A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest,
A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons,
Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion,
A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,
Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.
I resist any thing better than my own diversity,
Breathe the air but leave plenty after me,
And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
(The moth and the fish-eggs are in their place,
The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in
their place,
The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.)
It has been recorded that Whitman’s mother described him as going in and coming out- he had a peripatetic way; which means he was nomadic. Another definition of the word is Aristotelian, referring to The Peripatetic school or Peripatos which was a school of philosophy founded by Aristotle. Peripatetic was a word used to describe the peripatoi, in English the walkways, of the Lyceum where members of the school met. To maybe try and relate this, in the same nomadic, ungrounded manner of the school, Whitman expands himself over the details around him. This is especially exemplified in section 15 where as one analysis put it he “ testied how wide he could expand his sympathetic impulse before the self dissipates” in section 16 we find that Whitman contracts back into a firm sense of self, expressing confidence that he can contain the multitudes that he has absorbed and that they in fact strengthen the self.
The speaker goes on to create a definition of the self; he is of old and young, of the foolish and wise,/Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,/Maternal, paternal, child and man,
Which can reflect onto the reader the potential within ourselves to attain these identities, for the most part and individual’s is multidimensional- they are someone’s child, niece/nephew, grandchild and expand further, depending on which path they take. To express that Whitman describe
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Home body is Rupi Kaur’s third book and it has garnered a commendable 4.8 Stars out of 5 on Amazon and 4.1 out of 5 on Good reads. Kaur is seen as the pioneer of the fairly new sub genre of Instagram poetry, and while Instapoetry isn't as aged as other subgenres yet it has amassed a dedicated following, and in the same breath, there is notable criticism directed at it; aside from the one-liners begging for depth and/or elaboration or the unproductive use of indentations, the greater question lingers; is this type of work considered poetry?
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The imagination is a double-edged sword, that can act in and against our favour. In today's episode we will explore creativity in its pure and most destructive form as it plays out in the written work of those involved in true crime cases.
Loneliness is a feeling most are familiar with, tune in to hear the experiences of other poets in both the highs and lows of their loneliness.
Gabbie Hanna is a YouTuber, music artist and till recently a New York Times Best Selling Author. With the questionable reception she received from her first release, one could only wonder if her latest release will hold up. Tune in to get a glimpse of her latest work.
Love is a vast concept and there are so many interesting perspectives and interpretations of love given in poems. Tune in as we analyse love poems from as early as the medieval era all the way to our present day.
Life and death are the broadest categories in poetry, and they are the focus in this episode. Tune in to listen to poems found and written in relation to these themes.
"Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom." - Robert Frost.
Listen in to find out how analysis approves these words and could better your experience with literature.