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Australia is to have a poet laureate – how will the first appointment define us as a nation?

  • Written by: Valentina Gosetti, Associate Professor in French and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of New England
Australia is to have a poet laureate – how will the first appointment define us as a nation?Dan Peled/AAP

Poetry has often been a matter of nation building, including in Australia. Who hasn’t learnt by heart at school some verses from My Country (1908) by Dorothea Mackellar?

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, H...

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