Her poems are gritty and fierce, and she is a bold and fearless author, memoirist, broadcaster and poet of Jamaican-Irish heritage. Salena Godden and Yomi get to grips in an intimate conversation around the duality of the artist – from writing monster to gigging monster, and the solitude of creation against the performance on stage. She performs her poem \u2018Our Anarchy\u2019 – a poem that asks us feel deeply, resist, and reassemble what\u2019s been broken. This episode explores the emotional cost of creativity and the challenge of writing from a place of grief and rage. Together, they watch Maya Angelou\u2019s \u2018We Wear the Mask\u2019, a piece about how something simple, like a smile, can hide so much pain and fear in the face of oppression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n