Poetic justice? None in a country that shuts its ears to the word

Updated November 8 2012 - 10:38pm, first published February 20 2009 - 1:13pm

On our way to bury a dead poet not long back, Dorothy Porter told me of her apprehension and exhilaration at giving a live reading to thousands of women who had come to a giant Santiago soccer stadium to hear Australian women perform their poetry. "It was absolutely a crescendo of joy and excitement," she said, adding with a wink: "Do you think that would happen in Melbourne?" Or Sydney?

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