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SESSION: Poetry makes nothing happen – should it?
Saturday 1-2.45pm
Writing In Memory of WB Yeats, poet WH Auden famously wrote that “poetry makes nothing happen”. Join chair Joanna Preston and guests, Ariana Tikao, Isla Huia, Ray Shipley and Nic Low, for a panel discussion with performances from the poets' collections, on the role that poetry can, does and should play in civic life, and what engaged poetry might look like. And what it might cost.

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