Hello everyone, Patrick here. We've just wrapped up season 6 of Poetry on Bound and we'll

be back in 2023 with another few seasons. And we just launched, as if you didn't know,

the Poetry on Bound book published by Norton in the USA and can engage everywhere else.

And we thought it'd be fantastic for anyone who didn't get a chance to hear the brilliant

Larnagotasin as she spoke at the book launch to have an opportunity to hear her. She reads

and talks about her poem reporting back to Queen Isabella. Enjoy the episode.

Larnagotasin is a major figure in world literature. 12 books of poetry and memoirs and literary

criticism and short stories. She's been widely anthologised. She was the poet laureate

of Jamaica from 2017 to 2020 and she was awarded the 2019 Queen's gold medal for poetry

and the top of that. She's won many other awards for her work. Larnagotasin is one of the reasons

I love poetry. I have been reading her work for years and it has been a thrill to make

a poetry and Bound episode about Larnagotasin poem as well as to write about it as well as

to meet and get to know her and exchange correspondences with Larnagotasin. So Larnagotasin

I'd like to invite you into the Zoom Room now and we look forward to a conversation with

you.

So wonderful to be here. Thank you so much. Such an honor to be invited by you and I'm just

very, very, very honored.

Ha ha. Well, it's an honor to know you and engage with your work, Larnagotasin. We're going

to talk a little bit about that magnificent poem yours reporting back to Queen Isabella.

But I wonder if you'd read it first first. Sure, I'd be happy to.

Reporting back to Queen Isabella, when Don Cristobal returned to a hero's welcome, his

carvel's corked with treasures of the New World. He presented his findings to all of

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