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A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic

  • Written by Christopher Wallace-Crabbe, Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemicKenrick Mills/Unsplash

Why do we have the arts? Why do they seem to matter so much? It is all very well muttering something vague about eternal truths and spiritual values. Or even gesturing toward Bach and Leonardo da Vinci, along with our own Patrick White.

But what can the poets make of, and for, our busy, present lives? What do they have to...

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