Listen "Top Poems of the 21st Century"
Episode Synopsis
What are your favourite poems of the last 25 years? The ones that you turn to, couplets memorised and shared, the lines that leapt from the page or stage. Poetry that both defined and defied space and time, whether it rhymed or not.Join Kate Evans, as she is joined by acclaimed author and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke, Stella Prize-winning poet and academic Sarah Holland-Batt, much-loved broadcaster and author Daniel Browning, and best-selling author and journalist Julia Baird to discuss and read some of the poems that have shone brightest for each of them this century, as well as how the art-form has evolved.This event was presented at the State Library of NSW in partnership with Red Room Poetry.POETS AND POETRY MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEWarsan Shire, HomeAdam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated WorldGraeme Dixon, Six Feet of Land RightsGwen Harwood, In the ParkAnonymous Rose, Broken WorldZora Howard and Joshya Bennett, Still Life with Police SirensAli Cobby Eckermann, worksSimon Armitage, The ShoutEvelyn Araluen, decolonial poetics (avant gubba)Candy Royale, worksMax Porter, worksCREDITSPresenter, Kate EvansProducer, Kate Evans, Lisa NeedhamSound engineer, Ann Marie DebettencorExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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