Ep 241: Kate Larsen on poetry, the state of Arts funding and our online world

Kate Larsen is a writer, arts and cultural consultant currently based on Kaurna Yerta in Tamtanya/Adelaide. As one of Australia’s best-known social media poets, her alter ego Katie Keys (aka @tinylittlepoems) wrote and posted a daily poem for over a decade. Her first printed collection, Public. Open. Space, was released in 2023.
Kate’s work has been published or commissioned by The Relationship is the Project, Meanjin, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Voice & Verse and anthologies, magazines and arts organisations across Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom.
In this interview Kate discusses her 2023 essay in Overland, 'Tears for Peers: the hidden costs of Arts funding'.
Read the transcript for this interview here. 
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