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'The following interview was recorded at my Marsh Street flat in Armidale on 19 and 20 August 1981, when Alan Wearne came to read poems at the Uni-versity of New England and visit friends. We listened to classical and other music, drank at the New Englander Hotel, and talked a great deal about poetry, football, and his poems written to date that would eventually be included in his book-length poem The ' (Introduction)