We invited DR Congo's Kama Sywor Kamanda and South Africa's Lebogang Mashile, two of the participating poets, on to the programme to discuss their poetry and what inspires them to write.

You hear Lebogang Mashile first, explaining to Audrey Brown how she started writing poetry.

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Audrey continues by asking whether the intensely personal nature of writing poetry, describing one's innermost thoughts and emotions, leaves the poets with any sense of raw vulnerability?

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Chakuchanya Harawa reads the English voiceover

Click on the links above right to listen to a poem from each of the poets.