Grace Tame kicks off Poetry Month with blistering work

August is Australia's inaugural Poetry Month, featuring events, readings, workshops and newly commissioned poems from poets and poetry enthusiasts around the country. Guardian Australia has teamed up with Red Room Poetry to bring you a suite of performances from some of Australia's most exciting poetic voices. Watch the 2021 Australian of the Year, Grace Tame perform her poem, Hard Pressed.

Originally published in Guardian Australia, 2 August 2021.