Interview with Kate Larsen - Public. Open. Space.

Kate Larsen is a writer, arts and cultural consultant currently based on Kaurna Yerta in Tamtanya/Adelaide.

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.

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.

In 2018, Kate undertook an Asialink Arts Creative Exchange with the Hong Kong Arts Centre, which is where she started working on Public. Open. Space.which has just been published by Fremantle Press.

Public. Open. Space. is a collection of poetry inspired by spaces, places and situations that are controlled and contested online and in real life. Looking at firewalls and feminism, activism and apathy, Public. Open. Space. explores freedom and suppression, censorship and silencing, propaganda and protest, as well as the difference between being told ‘no’ and choosing to say it ourselves. Positioned at the intersection of poetic and digital culture, this collection explores the sense of placelessness increasingly resonant for all of us who live and work in the digital realm.

It’s a thought provoking book of poems that makes you think hard about the ideas of freedom, free speech and place.

Kate Larsen kindly agreed to be interviewed for this podcast by our Editor, Michael Barker. It’s a fascinating discussion.

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