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Why aren't you reading more poetry? Perhaps you don't know where to begin — in which case, listen here, for a guide.
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.
This event was first broadcast on 3 October 2025
POETS AND POETRY MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
• Warsan Shire, Home
• Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World
• Graeme Dixon, Six Feet of Land Rights
• Gwen Harwood, In the Park
• Anonymous Rose, Broken World
• Zora Howard and Joshya Bennett, Still Life with Police Sirens
• Ali Cobby Eckermann, works
• Simon Armitage, The Shout
• Evelyn Araluen, decolonial poetics (avant gubba)
• Candy Royale, works
• Max Porter, works
CREDITS
Presenter, Kate Evans
Producer, Kate Evans, Lisa Needham
Sound engineer, Ann Marie Debettencor + Harvey O'Sullivan
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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Why aren't you reading more poetry? Perhaps you don't know where to begin — in which case, listen here, for a guide.
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.
This event was first broadcast on 3 October 2025
POETS AND POETRY MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
• Warsan Shire, Home
• Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World
• Graeme Dixon, Six Feet of Land Rights
• Gwen Harwood, In the Park
• Anonymous Rose, Broken World
• Zora Howard and Joshya Bennett, Still Life with Police Sirens
• Ali Cobby Eckermann, works
• Simon Armitage, The Shout
• Evelyn Araluen, decolonial poetics (avant gubba)
• Candy Royale, works
• Max Porter, works
CREDITS
Presenter, Kate Evans
Producer, Kate Evans, Lisa Needham
Sound engineer, Ann Marie Debettencor + Harvey O'Sullivan
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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