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Culture

Artistic collaborators imagine cities a world away

Artist Jan Senbergs and poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe have collaborated in the form of paintings and poems to create their imagined versions of six cities: Kandy, Odessa, Oran, Santo Domingo, Timbuktu and Reykjavik, places that neither of them have visited, and possibly never will.

Audio report by Buffy Gorrilla
 
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The two artists, friends for more than 40 years, talk to Buffy Gorrilla about memories, travel and tennis.

► This story was first published on the Books and Arts program on ABC Radio National.

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