Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 4 March 29, 1939
Poetry and Politics
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Poetry and Politics
What is the duty of the poet in this age of expanding fears and savaging disasters?
Should he take sides? Or continue unconcerned? What is the function of poetry?
Here is on urgent and omnipresent problem, which deserves the active attention of everyone interested in the fate of literature.
The Phoenix Club is offering a prize of 10/- for the best statement of under 1.000 words on "The Relation Between Poetry and Politics."
Don't let the fact that you've taken English stage I deter you from entering!