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Shepherd, Kamau Braithwaite

Shepherd, Kamau Braithwaite

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It's the final poem and penultimate episode of the season! This week we are existing in the context of all in which we have lived as we read Kamau Braithwaite's "Shepherd" from Islands (1969). Go find the gods that lurk within you, it's another episode of PoeTRY! .

Listen to and read the poem here.

Kamau Braithwaite's bio was compiled from:

  • Poetry Foundation
  • Poetry Archive
  • The recorded 1995 interview series from the University of Memphis and River City Writers Series (youtube link)
  • The essay “Nation Language” from History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Langauge in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry

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