In this episode the panel ‘The Texture of Truth’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. ‘A poet’s job’ writes John Berryman, ‘ is not to play fast and loose with the facts of this world’ Or is it? Can poetry be true? What kind of truth, if any, […]

In this episode the panel ‘The Science of Poetry’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. It’s a commonplace that science is interested in objective and provable facts, while poetry is subjective: charting human experience and sensation. But this view neglects the...

In this episode a panel on  ‘Poetry and Process’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. How do poets make their work original, moving, and incisive? How do they overcome limitations and explore what is possible in poetry? How do they innovate in their work? In this...