Stage set from a shoot for The Bachelorette. Image via tenplay
Kate Durbin defines her latest poetry collection ‘literary television’. For E! Entertainment she transcribed every detail of a clutch of reality TV shows and turned her observations into poems.
‘I decided to transcribe everything I saw because I like the idea of paying close attention to something that we don’t often pay attention to… something that’s completely throw away, something we watch blindly or naively… In the US, reality TV is considered to be a bit stupid by many, but here in Australia it seems to dominate television, and the media presents it as more serious. I tried to make television more “literary”, because when you read a novel you give it a degree of attention you wouldn’t give a TV show,’ she says.
