The opening of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on 11 May brought together the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, leading New Zealand composers and the words of a selection of New Zealand poets in an innovative concert. Among a suite of poems that composer John Elmsly set to music was Basil Dowling's 'Some thought they saw', which was movingly read by narrator Stuart Devenie.
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