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Bantick discusses the assertion by Australian performance poet Emilie Zoey Baker that poetry should be on prime-time television and replace programs such as MasterChef. Bantick comments that 'What Baker and her fellow versifiers have failed to understand is that celebrity poets do more harm than good. ' He also discuses a recent poetry reading given my Melbourne poet Peter Steele.
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Only Greatness, Not Popular Appeal Can Restore Poetry as the Nation's Memory
The Weekend Australian
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