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Poets in Tasmania and Sweden, who have never met in person, use online chats to co-write poetry book

When Tasmanian poet Therese Corfiatis needs to get away, she only has to ask her Swedish friend, Britta Stenberg, for a screen-time tour of her snow-covered home. 

The two poets have developed a close friendship via regular online video chats, despite living at opposite ends of the globe and never having met in person.

"I love it when she takes the laptop outside and swings it around — it can be minus 30 degrees there and the whole world outside her house is white," Ms Corfiatis said.

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