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Michelle Aung Thin discusses Saturday’s @PENMelbourne fundraiser They Shoot Poets Don’t They with @richardthewatts on @3RRRFM SmartArts
What’s "…really important to the poets, artists and writers of Myanmar is to know that they're seen..."
Listen back: https://www.rrr.org.au/shared/broadcast-episode/20593/664000/1397000
People say that (writers) are pretty powerless: we don’t have an army, we don’t have a bureaucracy. But if that were true, then why would writers be arrested?... Because the spoken word is powerful.
