Ep. 127 - Otis Mensah

This week Peter deGraft-Johnson (The Repeat Beat Poet) speaks to Hip Hop artist and former Sheffield Poet Laureate, Otis Mensah. They discuss how the concept of introspective documentarianism underpins Otis' work of building a personal identity and creative voice around artistic truth and vulnerability, through rap and poetry. There's also talk of surviving and decrying racial capitalism, and a breakdown of Otis' tenure as laureate. Otis reads three poems - 17:12 - Contrary To The Intangible Grapevine 35:25 - The Thinks 1:00:00 - No Record Store Day Download a full transcript here: (COMING SOON) For more from Otis: For more from PJ: linktr.ee/repeatbeatpoet Repeat Beat Broadcast - For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com Order 'Why Poetry?': The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com Our production team is Mystery Planet Productions. Also mentioned on the podcast - Rhyme & Reason (series of filmed conversations as part of Otis' Artist Residency with Sheffield University, ft. Awate, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, and Open Mike Eagle) Pen-Ting Poetry - Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon (2009) Warda Yassin, current Sheffield Poet Laureate. Vanessa Kisuule's poem Hollow.

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This episode is 01:06:31 long.

This episode was published on Feb 3, 2021.

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