Originally posted on NZ Poetry Shelf:
? Wild Measure my wild. Down to my last leaf, my furled, my desiccated. This deciduousness, this bloom. Calculate my xylem levels. My spore count, fungal, scarlet in a bluebell glade. Whoosh, where the foliage closes on a great cat. Test me: how many tigers in my jungle,…
Author Archives: Victor Billot
Life in the Permian: a new poem in Cordite
Poetry Review: David Merrit’s Crisis & Duplication
via Poetry Review: David Merrit’s Crisis & Duplication
Location, location: Meniscus
I have had three poems published in the new edition of the Australasian journal Meniscus. One of which Location, location received the Copyright Agency Ltd Best Poem for this issue award. The journal is available free online.
A launch: Compound Press presents Minarets Issue 8
Originally posted on NZ Poetry Shelf:
? Compound Press presents Minarets Issue 8 Autumn 2018 Edited by Erena Shingade Illustrations by Harry Moritz Launch at 7pm, Saturday 28 April at the Compound Press headquarters, 5c 55-57 High Street. ? Minarets Issue 8 presents the freshest new writing from a mix of emerging and established New Zealand…
Hierarchies and Minarets
My new poem The Hierarchy has just been published in NZ journal Min-a-rets Issue 8.
Launch and reading in Dunedin
Ambient Terror reviewed in New Zealand Poetry Yearbook 2018
The writer Laura Solomon has written a very generous review of Ambient Terror for the just released Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018. Published by Massey University Press and edited by Jack Ross, the revamped magazine also features a wide range of work from New Zealand poets including a substantial feature on the work of Alastair …
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People Control
A response to the madness of the contemporary world.
Ambient Terror – a forthcoming review from Takahē
Takahē magazine and Shelley Chappell have kindly given permission for this review by Shelley to appear in advance of publication in the forthcoming issue 92 of Takahē. Victor Billot is a Dunedin writer of poetry and short stories, also known for his work as a parliamentary candidate. A publicist for Otago University Press, he also …
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Once in a blue moon
I was very happy to get placed 2nd in the 2017 Dunedin Chinese Garden Moon Festival poetry competition. I wrote a mutant villanelle on the theme of ‘Once in a Blue Moon.’ They produced some nice posters of the winning entries.
Dunedin hosting four days of creative collisions / combinations / confabulations
I’m looking forward to the Creative Cities Southern Hui on from 28 November – 2 December. Every day features some fantastic events and even better it’s free to attend (registration required.) Also I get to introduce the featured guests for Creative Connections on Thursday 30 November.
In the zone
Ambient Terror on Landfall Review Online
An insightful and generous review of Ambient Terror by Piet Nieuwland, alongside reviews of the great Peter Olds and Auckland poet Shane Hollands. Nice to be in such company. “[A] rolling, blustering word-river of nanobytes, phrase chunks, alliterations and acrobatic satirical loops, held together by number-eight wire rhyme – great fun . . . My …
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