British poet delivers passionate speech at Sydney writers' festival and urges 'empathy, humility, reparation and change'There is "a damaging and poisonous racism at root" in Australia, the British poet Kate Tempest has warned. Tempest delivered her impassioned critique in an opening address for the Sydney writers' festival. Speaking in front of international headliners, writers' festival guests and ticket holders, Te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:37AM on May 19, 2016