Talking poetry with Yilinhi/Lorna Munro

Lorna Munro or Yilinhi is a Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi woman, multidisciplinary artist, poet, performer, radio and podcast host. She joins me today in the lead-up to the Sydney Writers' Festival to read some of her poems and talk about her work, her collaborations with Ancestress and Eric Avery as Poetribe, the power of spoken word, speaking language, decolonialisation in art, Yala Gari, the poet-in-residence program she created with Red Room for students, pushing boundaries, her new Red Room collaboration Fair Trade with January Rogers, and lots more.  The Sydney Writers Festival session is on May 21st from 2-3pm at Carriageworks Track 8 - details here: https://www.swf.org.au/festivals/festival-2022/how-to-write-a-river-a-sky-a-seed/ You can hear tracks from Poetribe here: https://soundcloud.com/poetribe At the same Soundcloud link first song on the Sovereign Trax March is Yilinhi's collaboration with Ancestress "Speak the Truth" More about Eric Avery: https://ericavery.com.au More about Red Room's Fair Trade: https://redroompoetry.org/projects/fair-trade/ More about January Rogers at Twitter: https://twitter.com/janetmarieroger Video version of this session: https://youtu.be/GMINfk4xS28