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Conversations with a dead poet: Alan Wearne recalls John Forbes [Widescreen]

Australia, 1999
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Alan Wearne, poet and tutor hosts this documentary about his friend and colleague John Forbes (1950-98), one of Australia’s most prominent modern poets ..

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