12. Fully Lit Live: The Poet in the Public Arena
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12. Fully Lit Live: The Poet in the Public Arena
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About this listen
Hear what poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt has to say about Australia's as-yet-uncrowned Poet Laureate. She takes a close look at the tradition and explores poetry's relationship to power, highlighting the potential pitfalls and possible benefits of such a figure.
Can a poet laureate bring poetry back in Australia, where it's long been an afterthought for cultural policymakers? How might such a person engage our politics? And can we (shall we?) build the infrastructure to support poetic careers—not just poetic moments?
And, most urgently, how long will it take before someone dubs the be-laureled bard Australia's Poet Lorikeet?
Further reading
For the written version of this address, see The Poet in the Public Arena by Sarah Holland-Batt, published in Sydney Review of Books.
To learn more about her work, visit Sarah Holland-Batt.
CREDITS
Fully Lit is brought to you by UTS Impact Studios, the Sydney Review of Books and the UTS Writing and Publishing Program.
Executive producers, Sarah Gilbert and James Jiang.
Producer Regina Botros.