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 the panel ‘What Should Poetry Be?’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. Page, stage, rage or sage: there’s a lot of opinions on what poetry is and what it should be. Is it an oral art form or “patterned language”? Is it best heard, or […]

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...