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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: This is very interesting. The government has launched an arts policy.

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Speaker 2: One of the prongs of its arts policy in your

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Speaker 2: cultural policy and arts where part of the arts Brendan.

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Speaker 1: Are we yeah is this art? Yeah? You like?

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Speaker 2: You go and see live music. I like live music,

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Speaker 2: you go to see theater.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Part of an arts policy is encouraging that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: So I take a poet. I'm not proping art.

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Speaker 2: But one of the prongs of the new cultural policy

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Speaker 2: is reinstalling a poet laureate. Australia used to have a

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Speaker 2: poet Laureate, first appointed in the nineteenth century by Governor

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Speaker 2: Lochlan mcquarie and who's appointed merely to write odes for

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Speaker 2: royal birthdays. But other countries have poet laureates. The UK does,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand does, the US does Canada. And what happens

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Speaker 2: here is that that the poet laureate writes poetry to

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Speaker 2: mark certain of events in the country's history.

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Speaker 1: Didn't John Laws used to do that, write poetry. He'd

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Speaker 1: write poetry about trucks and valveilina ladies that like trust are.

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Speaker 2: You putting him forward to be our poet lauriy.

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Speaker 1: You do it, Lawys, you could do it. Rusty Russell Crowe.

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Speaker 2: He likes he recites poetry, doesn't write it that.

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Speaker 1: He writes some poetry.

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Speaker 2: You know who should be poet lauriate because they wrote

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Speaker 2: a lot of poetry is me?

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 2: I have a poetry diary from my teen years. You know,

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Speaker 2: remember I wrote my ode diskylab. That's right, that's what

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Speaker 2: a poet laureate does. Things happen to your country and

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Speaker 2: you reference it through poetry.

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Speaker 1: So you're pitching to be our poet laureate.

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Speaker 2: Well now I'm shy, but yes, here's this is a

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Speaker 2: book of mine that's filled with my teenage poetry. Everything

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Speaker 2: seems to be about love gone wrong. Or there's a

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Speaker 2: little picture there, rock star kind of stuff. It's a photo.

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Speaker 1: Brenda, a shirtless man that wasn't.

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Speaker 2: From those years. I had no action or anything in

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Speaker 2: those years, and I wrote so passionately about love and

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Speaker 2: they're breaking up and I had no boyfriends at all.

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Speaker 2: So why didn't you just pick a pout poem and

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Speaker 2: read it at random.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff in here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a very prolific poet.

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Speaker 1: And there's a little drawing of snoopy on the cover.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that cute? I could do that as a poet, Lauriate,

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Speaker 2: I could draw snoopy on the cover of all the works.

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Speaker 1: How old were you when you did this?

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Speaker 2: I thought there was the Usually they're dated, aren't they

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Speaker 2: Have a look at the bottom of them. They'll have

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Speaker 2: dates on them. Seventy four seventy five. I would have

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Speaker 2: been about twelve thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Man seventy five, Yeah, nineteen seventy five, thirteen thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Burgeoning emotions. I'd sit in my room and pour it

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Speaker 2: all out in poetry, a lot of them. Do you'll

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Speaker 2: just read one, Read a couple, Read a couple. I'm

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Speaker 2: trusting you. No mockery, please, I'm trusting you with my poetry.

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Speaker 1: You've got to take some criticism.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd rework some of them now, as if I

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Speaker 2: was a.

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Speaker 1: Poet law Shakespeare had some critics. Okay, I go, well,

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Speaker 1: don't put your head in your hands. This is okay,

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Speaker 1: this one. What's this called nothing? I remember back to

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Speaker 1: those moonlit nights. As I'd look into your eyes, all

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Speaker 1: the pain I felt was killed, all my empty skies

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Speaker 1: were filled, all the rivers began to flow. My love

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Speaker 1: for you began to grow good rhyming, But I was

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Speaker 1: just naiven yah.

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Speaker 2: So it always turns dark.

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Speaker 1: And I thought our love was true. I blindly thought

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Speaker 1: you felt for me.

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Speaker 2: Shall I read along with it? I can remember it.

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Speaker 2: I felt for you.

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Speaker 1: I knew a change occurred in you, what happened, and

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Speaker 1: I knew that young love dies, But I didn't really

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Speaker 1: feel it.

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Speaker 2: Until I saw it in your eyes. See it's a

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Speaker 2: very predictable rhyme.

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Speaker 1: I shed my tears of blood and pain. You stepped

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Speaker 1: from my sight. I suppose this means I'm really free,

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Speaker 1: though I'm as high as a car.

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Speaker 2: I know that's not what it would have said.

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Speaker 1: It just sounds better.

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Speaker 2: You've got you read it as it is.

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Speaker 1: Many people seem to say you're not the first to

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Speaker 1: feel this way, but no one else will ever know

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Speaker 1: the pain that will never ever go See it's I

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Speaker 1: can add for the territory.

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Speaker 2: That is beautiful. Read one more, Read one.

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Speaker 1: More the soft subtle waves.

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Speaker 2: No, that's another loved one.

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Speaker 1: Roll up to the shore.

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Speaker 2: There's probably one there about rock stars. I wrote a

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Speaker 2: lot about how you're never gonna.

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Speaker 1: Make it and treat it with such subtle grace blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah. Oh that's a good one. Okay, right, I'll

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Speaker 1: do a bit of an Aussie voice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but don't change it.

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Speaker 1: Not a change. You entered the office at nine o'clock sharp,

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Speaker 1: convinced they'd work out what to do. But the mongrels

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Speaker 1: that's sat in their air conditions studio with their feet up,

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Speaker 1: had to time it all for you.

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Speaker 2: At no time. It's probably what it's said.

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Speaker 1: You've got two But we warned you when you were

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Speaker 1: just a boy. We told you it would be tough

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Speaker 1: to get a name in show business. Your life must

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Speaker 1: be pretty rough. So your roots became twisted, didn't they

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Speaker 1: Your head became blank? Yeah, And they laughed till the

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Speaker 1: tears rolled down their cheeks when you came back on

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Speaker 1: your hands and knees.

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Speaker 2: No, I should have had a bank rhyme there all

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Speaker 2: the way to the bank.

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Speaker 1: They said, in between their laughter, we have no time

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Speaker 1: for songs like these, and many people after you will

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Speaker 1: fall in the same vicious pit. But the mongrels didn't mind.

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Speaker 1: They don't care, They don't give.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have no swears. What's the last line?

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Speaker 1: A bit?

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Speaker 2: They didn't care a bit.

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Speaker 1: They didn't care a bit.

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Speaker 2: Well, I took you on a journey. So look, I'm

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Speaker 2: just humbly saying never really liked poetry, like noished when

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Speaker 2: pers was on. I see apart a little stew. It

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Speaker 2: frightens me today. I will do the p do, but

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Speaker 2: I want them all back. I want the originals back,

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Speaker 2: so I put them in a step self addressed envelope,

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Speaker 2: please