\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBalancing Acts\u003c/i\u003e gathers together interviews and conversations between Gerald Dawe and a wide cast of interlocutors between 1995 and 2020. Drawn from exchanges on television and radio, print and online media, these conversations with fellow poets, critics, journalists, colleagues and friends, are a testament to Daweâs generous, open-hearted and open-minded approachability as a poet for whom the âartful way of makingâ poetry has always been informed by an attitude of just âgetting on with itâ. In the same way that memory, for him, is ânot just about the pastâ but involves âa route into the presentâ, these fascinating interviews and conversations provide an insight into the poet on the go, in the process of making unforgettable poetry happen.\u003c/p\u003e