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The Poetry of Michael Leunig [Australia]:

Michael Leunig's name does not immediately bring poetry to mind. After all, he is one of the best cartoonists in Australia. But he not only uses verse as an element in his cartoons, he writes poems for their own sake, poking fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deploring the idiocy of war and revelling in the redeeming power of love.

In this program of PoeticA (ABC Radio), you can hear Leunig discuss what attracted him to poetry as well as a selection of his verse, taken from the collection Poems, published in 2003 by Viking Press. Read by actor Geoffrey Rush.

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