Give thanks to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for including "A Prayer for my Children" in the second part of their review of a hundred years of Jamaican poetry: Jamaican Poetry Part Two.
The programme (notice the proper way to spell the word) also includes:
"The Ark by "Scratch" by Ishion Hutchinson
"Piece in Parts (Fi Tosh R.I.P.)" by A-dZiko Simba
"Where We . . " by Makesha Evans
"Roads (Remembering Aimé Césaire)" by Velma Pollard
"Jamaica Language" by Louise Bennett
'Dis Poem' by Mutabaruka
You can listen to the poems here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/poetica/jamaican-poetry-part-two/5518114
Part One
"A Midnight Woman to the Bobby" by Claude McKay
"Cameo" by Una Marson
"Landscape Painter, Jamaica" by Vivian Virtue
"Negro Aroused" by George Campbell
"Dutty Tough" by Louise Bennett
"Shelling Gungo Peas" by Gloria Escoffery
"Letter to My Father from London" by James Berry
"History and Away" by Andrew Salkey
"Sometimes in the Middle of the Story" by Edward Baugh
"Valley Prince" by Mervyn Morris
"Uncle Time" by Dennis Scott
"Brief Lives" by Olive Senior
"Last Lines" by Pam Mordecai
"Mrs" by Lillian Allen
"I No Longer Read Poetry" by Heather Royes
"Riddim An' Hardtime' by Lillian Allen
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