Top Poems of the 21st Century

What are your favourite poems of the last 25 years? The ones that you turn to, couplets memorised and shared, the lines that leapt from the page or stage. Poetry that both defined and defied space and time, whether it rhymed or not.

Join Kate Evans, as she is joined by acclaimed author and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke, Stella Prize-winning poet and academic Sarah Holland-Batt, much-loved broadcaster and author Daniel Browning, and best-selling author and journalist Julia Baird to discuss and read some of the poems that have shone brightest for each of them this century, as well as how the art-form has evolved.

This event was presented at the State Library of NSW in partnership with Red Room Poetry.

POETS AND POETRY MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Warsan Shire, Home
• Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World
• Graeme Dixon, Six Feet of Land Rights
• Gwen Harwood, In the Park
• Anonymous Rose,  Broken World
• Zora Howard and Joshya Bennett, Still Life with Police Sirens
• Ali Cobby Eckermann, works
• Simon Armitage, The Shout
• Evelyn Araluen, decolonial poetics (avant gubba)
• Candy Royale, works
• Max Porter, works

CREDITS

Presenter, Kate Evans

Producer, Kate Evans, Lisa Needham

Sound engineer, Ann Marie Debettencor

Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown