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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 No More Band-aid Solutions : The Close Reading of a Poem
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'Footage of Bob Dylan during the 1985 recording of ‘We are the world’ turned into a meme recently. The footage is great, and it’s the first thing I thought of when I read the title of Aidan Coleman’s poem ‘Band | Aid’ (published in Overland’s summer edition and republished below). The connection made sense because ‘We are the world’ was the US response to Band Aid, a 1984 UK invention famous for ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’.'  (Introduction)

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https://overland.org.au/2018/05/no-more-band-aid-solutions-the-close-reading-of-a-poem/ No More Band-aid Solutions : The Close Reading of a Poemsmall AustLit logo Overland [Online]
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  • Band | Aid Aidan Coleman , 2017 single work poetry
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