Summer Reading: It's time for poetry

Why aren't you reading more poetry? Perhaps you don't know where to begin — in which case, listen here, for a guide.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.This event was first broadcast on 3 October 2025POETS 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, worksCREDITSPresenter, Kate EvansProducer, Kate Evans, Lisa NeedhamSound engineer, Ann Marie Debettencor + Harvey O'SullivanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown