Author Archives: Victor Billot
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 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 …
Das Phaedrus live 2021
https://youtu.be/9X_42cwpFXw 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 …
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 David Eggleton.
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 plus two new poems: ‘An Award Winning Campaign’ and ‘The Youngest One’. Victor Billot was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1972. He has worked in communications, publishing and the maritime industry. His…
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 …
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 the H D Skinner Annex.Thank you to the UBS, Otago University Press and all who attended. Good times! All photos by Laura Hewson.Support your local independent bookseller or available from Otago University Press.
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