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Strange Currencies 3/10/25: Neika Lehman’s Dog House & Pablo Neruda’s Tonight I Can Write

Strange Currencies 3/10/25: Neika Lehman’s Dog House & Pablo Neruda’s Tonight I Can Write4 Oct 20251 h 51 min

<p>In this month’s episode—our second recorded at the new narrm ngarrgu Library—we explore two poems: Neika Lehman’s <em>Dog House</em>, winner of the 2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and Pablo Neruda’s <em>Tonight I Can Write</em> (1924). Written a century and worlds apart, both reflect the truth that “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” Recorded on the unceded lands of the Wurrundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.</p>