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 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 […]