Dua Lipa is a poet too – on National Poetry Day, let’s celebrate the power of words to move us
- Written by Siobhan Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Auckland University of Technology
Getty ImagesThe significance and solace of poetry is closer than you think, I tell budding authors as they arrive at class with headphones on, glued to TikTok trends, or scrolling through Instagram feeds.
Given their youth, they begin to air archaic ideas about what poetry is: something that’s difficult to decipher, hard to write.
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