‘The Sets’ was published by Otago University Press in February 2021.
New Das Phaedrus album
Protest, 2022: a great variety of morbid symptoms
Notes on the mood of New Zealand protest against power elites – an essay published by Newsroom.
Ghosts of the Dunedin Music Scene, by Das Phaedrus
Taxpayers’ Union versus Dunedin Poet: another instalment in the dumbest right wing campaign of the decade
Socialist poet Victor Billot of Dunedin has returned fire on the misnamed “Taxpayers’ Union” who are now on the second…
Das Phaedrus live 2021
Das Phaedrus were the first band I was in, we played in 1990 and 1991, and again in 1994 and…
National Flash Fiction Day 2021
Interview on Educating for social change
A wide ranging rave and a few poems read
The Sets reviewed in Landfall
A new review in Landfall Review Online by Erik Kennedy
The Sets reviewed in Takahē
A very insightful and thorough review by Vaughan Rapatahana in Takahē 101, April 2021.
Rage Virus infects 2020 Best New Zealand Poems
I’m honoured to have my poem Rage Virus find its way into the 2020 Best New Zealand Poems edited by…
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Victor Billot reads from The Sets
Originally posted on NZ Poetry Shelf:
The Sets, Victor Billot, Otago University Press, 2021 Victor Billot reads ‘The Sets’ from his collection…
The Sets reviewed by Reid’s Reader
A thorough and rigorous review of The Sets by Nicholas Reid on Reid’s Reader (an abridged version appeared in the…
The Sets reviewed in Kete Books
My friend and fellow writer Michael Steven has written a great review here on the Kete Books website.
On the radio: Write On with Vanda Symon
Interview with Vanda Symon on Write On, Otago Access Radio, 10 February 2021
Launch of The Sets, Dunedin, 4 February 2021
The Sets was launched in Dunedin on Thursday 4 February at the temporary home of the University Book Shop in…
Victor Billot 