25 Aug 2019

The new, provocative Poet Laureate

From Standing Room Only, 1:33 pm on 25 August 2019

Dunedin 'poet provocateur' David Eggleton has big plans for his two year tenure as New Zealand's Poet Laureate. Since the 1980s the the multi-award winning performance poet, critic, editor and freelance journalist has spoken truth to power and wrestled with issues like identity in his distinctive no-holds-barred poetry.