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Sydney Writers' Festival

The Unacknowledged Legislators

Where
Carriageworks
Carriageworks
245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh NSW 2042
When

Sunday 22 May 2022 from 4pm to 5pm

Cost

Adult: $30Concession: $25

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” Percy Bysshe Shelley once mused. His famous epithet resonates today as readers turn to a new generation of poets who are bringing rhyme and reason to bear on thorny ideas and urgent emotions in uncertain times.

In this special event, the poets behind some of the year’s most thought-provoking and stirring works read and perform from their works.

Featuring Eunice Andrada (TAKE CARE), Tony Birch (Whisper Songs), Maxine Beneba Clarke (How Decent Folk Behave), Sarah Holland-Batt (The Jaguar and Fishing for Lightning), Jazz Money (how to make a basket), Omar Musa (Killernova) and Sara M. Saleh, with host Declan Fry.

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