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Harry Ricketts

Guest Ode: a triolet on Shakespeare

Robyn Malcolm said CNZ's decision to defund was "beyond short sighted, reactionary and just plain dumb".

The final word on that CNZ decision  

On Creative New Zealand Not Funding the New Zealand Schools Shakespeare Competition, 2022   locked within a canon of imperialism: what a smug, dull prison of a phrase, the clink, clink of reprimanding clichés.   locked within a canon of imperialism: culture should be a shining out, a prism, not some jailor to cancel and erase. locked within a canon of imperialism: what a smug, dull prison of a phrase.   Victor Billot, the regular bard of the weekly Ode who has previously addressed such luminaries as the Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, Mike Hosking, and Garrick Tremain, will return next week.

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