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Compulsive Imaginings – Introducing Australian Poets Jill Jones, David Prater and Paul Hardacre

July 20, 2007 / Angela Meyer (LiteraryMinded)

The UK Poetry website Metaroar has posted my interview with three great contemporary Australian poets – have a read:

Compulsive Imaginings

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