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Visit from poet Dean Atta

Poet  Dean Atta visited CBA to work with students in two classes last week.

Poet  Dean Atta visited CBA to work with students in two classes last week.

Dean shared his poems ‘Fatherless Nation’, ‘Freedom of Love’ and ‘Losing My Mind?’ with students before inviting them to write their own poems.

Year 10 student Ashlee Bester said: “It was really fun, writing poetry was a new experience and it gave me inspiration to write poetry as a way to express my feelings.”

Teacher Lou Cory said: "Everyone engaged with it and had a go at poetry. They had a totally different attitude to poems afterwards.

"The students enjoyed hearing the stories behind the poems from Dean and that inspired them to write their own, because they would never have thought to write a poem about their own lives before."