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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: Ben Brown delivers the 2020 Read NZ Pānui on youth justice and the power of words
Description: In a powerful address, Lyttelton poet Ben Brown explores the impact of deprivation and cultural estrangement on generations of our boys, as well as the redemptive power of words. Hear Ben Brown delivering the 2020 Read NZ Te Pou Muramura PānuiHighlights from the lectureYou're a male, which is not the simple definition it used to be, but let's allow that's what you are. You're a thief, a drug dealer, a bank robber, a murderer. You're a gangsta, staunch as, notorious. You're a lone wolf on the prowl looking for the lambs. Y...