Poetry offers us a way to perceive the world and language anew. One poet in this session has said: “I don’t really care for the rules of English.” Another has said: “the pen gives us the opportunity to cross out words as much as it gives us the power to write them.”A third poet has said: “the secret self is invariably unmasked in the process of writing every poem.” A critic has said that the fourth poet “hotwires space and time…something flashes into being: a new sense, a beauty…”. Come to the session and try to match the quote to the poet!
Jazz Money is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri and Irish heritage, based in Sydney Australia.
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