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Poetry competition entry 2018: School Day
Originally posted on Libraries Tararua : Te Whare Pukapuka Tāmaki nui-a-Rua: School Day The clang of the bell, an antique gong ringing amongst standards and apps, casts doors open with clamour and rush. Mothers, and fathers, pat and hug, shy pride disguised in bluff greeting. Kids silly with giggles, others pensive, fill the fields with…
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Joint exhibition to celebrate ‘Landfall’
Landfall’s position as New Zealand’s pre-eminent literary and art journal is being celebrated in a unique way by the Otago Arts Society.
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The Friday Poem: ‘The Hierarchy’ by Victor Billot
Republished on the Spinoff: The Friday Poem: ‘The Hierarchy’ by Victor Billot
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Some poems from the Ockham NZ poetry finalists: Sue Wootton’s ‘Wild’
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,…
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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…
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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.
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Charcoal Burners and Victor Billot, Inch Bar, Dunedin, Saturday 1 July 2017, 8pm
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Save the Dunedin Metro Postshop and Kiwibank
The following opinion piece appeared in the Otago Daily Times on 17 May 2011 as part of a campaign to prevent the closure of the Dunedin Central post office. The closure by NZ Post management proceeded, despite the collection of thousands of petition signatures, protest actions at local post offices including a rally and a…
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Book club
What I have been reading in 2009 >>>
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Science and Capitalism
Terence Kealey falls out of love with market myths at New Scientist and is descended upon by hordes of screaming libertarians (AKA self justifying plutocrats)
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That’s very generous of you . . . sir
A small mention here at Tumeke for my comments today about our Prime Minister who craves to see the warm and friendly hand of charity extended to the dispossessed. John Key is a confused man. He wants a British “honours” system, an American “generosity” system and presumably a Burmese employment system to pay for it…
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(Barbed) Wire
Just listened to one of the tracks from the new Wire album “One of us” – available as a free download. Still brilliant. Contributing to my theory that post punk music groups can (not always) survive middle age better than pre punk music groups.
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Alpha Plan video from the archives . . .
Victor Billot 