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Poet Courtney Sina Meredith's words more powerful now than ever

March 28, 2019

Jeremy Wells spoke to the poet the morning before the Christchurch terrorist attacks. (Source: Other)

On the morning of the March 15 terrorist attack in Christchurch, Seven Sharp's Jeremy Wells met a remarkable woman at Polyfest.

Courtney Sina Meredith's a poet, and her words are now more powerful now than ever.

Hear her words, and conversation with Wells, in the video above. 

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