Evening news…
A reading of Alec Choate’s poem ‘Evening news…’.
Taken from ‘Australian poetry 1988: the finest of recent Australian poetry’ edited by Vivan Smith.
“There is a spider in the room”
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(Recorded in the winter, forgive the slightly nasal tone, and possible mispronunciation of the author’s surname.)