These recordings come from a special recording for the poetry archive
  • 1 -
    "Mother Music"

  • 2 -
    "Generations Dreaming I"

  • 3 -
    "Generations Dreaming II"

  • 4 -
    "Craving"

  • 5 -
    "Five Strands of Hair"

  • 6 -
    "Black Girl Shuffle"

  • 7 -
    "Forget"

  • 8 -
    "Home"

  • 9 -
    "Milkdreams Ghost "

  • 10 -
    "Connecting Medium I"

  • 11 -
    "Connecting Medium II"

  • 12 -
    "Gambian Sting"

  • 13 -
    "c.1950 – Bubble n’ Squeak"

  • 14 -
    "c. 1967 – Sweet Potato n’ Callaloo"

  • 15 -
    "I’m In The Market For Hair"

  • 16 -
    "Ruby Lips"

  • 17 -
    "Shipshape & Lancaster-Fashion"

  • 18 -
    "Bringing It All Back Home"

  • 19 -
    "Samboo’s Elegy: No Rhyme Or Reason"

  • 20 -
    "99 Names of Samboo"

  • 21 -
    "Lancaster Keys: The Brew Room"

  • 22 -
    "Shake my Future"

  • 23 -
    "Pissed Off"

  • 24 -
    "A Sense of Denial"

  • 25 -
    "After Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, “Gaia breaks up with Humanity, her young lover”"

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Bibliography
  • "Dorothea Smartt reading from her Poems" Dorothea Smartt reading from her Poems, The Poetry Archive
  • "A Storm Between Fingers" A Storm Between Fingers Flipped Eye
  • "Ship Shape" Ship Shape Peepal Tree Press
  • "Connecting Medium" Connecting Medium Peepal Tree Press
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