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POTM Summer readings #6 – Stephen Edgar

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Stephen Edgar’s most recent book is Transparencies (Black Pepper, 2017). His two previous books, Eldershaw and Exhibits of the Sun, were both shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He has received the Grace Leven Poetry Prize (2003), the Australian Book Review Poetry Prize (2005) and the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal (2006). Stephen lives in Sydney. This episode hosted by Shane Strange Sound production by Samuel Byrnand

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