Hi, friends, I've got some news for you. I've got two books coming out in early 2025.

44 poems on being with each other is a poetry-unbound collection with 44 poems and 44 essays.

There's poems from Jericho Brown and Mary Oliver and Lucille Clifton in there.

And I have a collection of my own poems coming out too. It's called Kitchen Hymns.

You can pre-order these wherever you get your books,

online bookshops, or even better, your local bookshop.

There's more info at poetry unbound.org.

Thanks, friends.

My name is Potter Gotuma,

and last summer I was back in Belfast,

and it was during Belfast Traditional Music

Week. It was a great festival and one night I was in this small pub that was crowded and this

great music was being played mostly by young people under 20 but there was a whole load of them too

as I heard them talk, who'd moved to Ireland

and happened to like traditional music and so brought their own interests from afar.

And they were expanding the music through their brilliance and through their own far reaching.

And walking home later on the night, I found myself thinking about what is it that music can do

that evokes memory and evokes place and evokes belonging,

but also it tracks change as well because I'm not listening to those songs as if I was five again.

I'm listening to them in my late 40s and Ireland has changed and I've changed

and the music too has changed to wrap all of that in its particular sonics.

Put on that KTNN by Kensale Drake.

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