Victor Billot

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  • The Sets out now

    The Sets out now

    ‘The Sets’ was published by Otago University Press in February 2021.

    February 4, 2021
  • The friend you might not want: the rise of scalable ethics

    The friend you might not want: the rise of scalable ethics

    The agenda is being set at an institutional, systemic level. It encourages a corrosive dishonesty where the scalable ethics and emotional manipulation of much contemporary business practice is accepted at the personal level.

    June 14, 2023
  • New Das Phaedrus album

    New Das Phaedrus album

    May 27, 2022
  • Protest, 2022: a great variety of morbid symptoms

    Protest, 2022: a great variety of morbid symptoms

    Notes on the mood of New Zealand protest against power elites – an essay published by Newsroom.

    March 22, 2022
  • Ghosts of the Dunedin Music Scene, by Das Phaedrus

    Ghosts of the Dunedin Music Scene, by Das Phaedrus

    August 27, 2021
  • Taxpayers’ Union versus Dunedin Poet: another instalment in the dumbest right wing campaign of the decade

    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 year of their doomed campaign against him. Mr Billot says the Taxpayers’ Union have again attacked his poetry and Creative New Zealand for funding provided to the Newsroom website which publishes a weekly satirical poem…

    August 16, 2021
  • Das Phaedrus live 2021

    Das Phaedrus live 2021

    Das Phaedrus were the first band I was in, we played in 1990 and 1991, and again in 1994 and 1995. After that we were blown by the four winds to various corners of the globe but recently have found the three of us back in Dunedin. We played at the end of last year…

    July 2, 2021
  • National Flash Fiction Day 2021

    National Flash Fiction Day 2021

    June 21, 2021
  • Interview on Educating for social change

    Interview on Educating for social change

    A wide ranging rave and a few poems read

    May 23, 2021
  • The Sets reviewed in Landfall

    The Sets reviewed in Landfall

    A new review in Landfall Review Online by Erik Kennedy

    May 1, 2021
  • The Sets reviewed in Takahē

    The Sets reviewed in Takahē

    A very insightful and thorough review by Vaughan Rapatahana in Takahē 101, April 2021.

    April 24, 2021
  • Rage Virus infects 2020 Best New Zealand Poems

    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 David Eggleton.

    April 3, 2021
  • Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Victor Billot reads from The Sets

    Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Victor Billot reads from The Sets

    March 30, 2021
  • The Sets reviewed by Reid’s Reader

    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 Listener on 6 February 2021) The collection’s Prologue “The Sets” presents the sea as daunting and as the centre of Billot’s own personal mythology, the place to which he returns for many of his most…

    March 1, 2021
  • The Sets reviewed in Kete Books

    The Sets reviewed in Kete Books

    My friend and fellow writer Michael Steven has written a great review here on the Kete Books website.

    March 1, 2021
  • On the radio: Write On with Vanda Symon

    On the radio: Write On with Vanda Symon

    Interview with Vanda Symon on Write On, Otago Access Radio, 10 February 2021

    February 10, 2021
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