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Flat White

Ignorant new puritans are out to purge our poetry

11 April 2021

6:04 PM

11 April 2021

6:04 PM

It was the by-line that caught my eye “The whole canon is being erased”, or at least that’s how I first read it. It actually read ‘The whole canon is being reappraised: how the #MeToo movement upended Australian poetry”

It’s not often poetry gets into the press and when it does it’s normally for something terrible, like slander, or someone’s run off with someone’s work or worse.

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