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鈥楻ound Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.

Soweto鈥檚 guest from Monday to Thursday this week is the surrealist blues poet, writer, and educator aja monet. Born in New York to Cuban and Jamaican parents, aja monet is widely celebrated for her lyrical creativity and dexterity, and for her work as an organiser. Aged just 19, she won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award title in 2007, and went on to be nominated for a NAACP Literary Award for Poetry in 2018. She is also the Artistic Creative Director for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against all women and girls.

Her latest album 鈥渨hen poems do what they do鈥� is a poetic work that features fellow leading lights of the US jazz world including trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, flautist Elena Pinderhughes, and drummer Marcus Gilmore.

To start her week, aja selects an album from a fellow American wordsmith.

Plus, there鈥檚 music from The Comet is Coming, SwanNek with Ras Tek, and Hector Plimmer, Tawiah, and Marysia Osu.