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QLD | Two poems by David Stavanger

Tuesday, 19 December 2017

States of Poetry QLD Podcast | Two poems by David Stavanger

David Stavanger reads his poems ‘I lied' and 'New Age' for the second series of ABR's Queensland States of Poetry anthology.

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