In the second episode of The Open Ear, Ghostpoet sits down with Sharmaine Lovegrove for a slow, expansive conversation shaped by a tarot-inspired card game and guided by deep listening, curiosity, and intuitive exchange.

Referenced throughout the conversation:

The Fool
Roald Dahl’s - Matilda

Toni Morrison
Beloved and The Bluest Eye

James Baldwin

Dr Maya Angelou

The Lovers
Franz Fanon
Black Skin, White Mask
The Wretched Of The Earth

James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Karl Marx

Adam Smith

Jeremy Bentham

Utilitarianism

Das Kapital

Vladimir Lenin

The Catcher in the Rye

Catch-22

Ralph Ellison

The World
Black Cultural Archives

Code switching

Jamaican Patios

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr.

Steve Biko

Marcus Garvey

Windrush Generation

Kalabash bay, Treasure beach

Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half

Jamaica hurricane fund link


Connect with Sharmaine:
Instagram, Chapters Bookshop 

 More from Ghostpoet:
 Instagram, Website 

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