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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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The Sets out now
‘The Sets’ was published by Otago University Press in February 2021.
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2020
Oh boy. If you’re reading this, you made it through. A freak, a mutant, the year that said “BOO!”
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Socialist poet in Dunedin bites back at Taxpayers’ Union attack
Dunedin writer Victor Billot has responded to a bizarre attack by the Taxpayers’ Union with a simple message: “get a real job.”
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The mind virus of right wing conspiracies
The danger here is because we live in the ‘bubble of the present’ some will believe the confusion being sown by the far right and conspiracy theorists, who now appear to be merging in a bizarre new ideology. It is important to resist this wave of dangerous nonsense.
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Showing promise: a poem for Hamish Walker
The MP for Clutha-Southland did, it is true, post on Facebook that he had been door knocking in Mataura when he hadn’t.
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Working Class Hero
As Minister of Social Development I went hard, I developed people out of houses into cars.
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Ride the Dave Wave: a poem for David Clark
Hark! Hark! It’s Dave Clark, riding his unicycle round the bike park.
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Green Eggs and Porridge: a poem for Prince Andrew
My name is Andy Wyndzor, I’m aged 60 or so. Occupation not stated, of no fixed abode.
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Go Big or Go Home: a poem for Donald Trump
Prezident Cheezel deletes lockdown, deletes the World Health Organization, deletes the memory of George Floyd, then hunkers in his hunker bunker …
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The Rise of Toad: or a verse marking the anointment of a new leader of the National Party, 22 May 2020
All hail! Glad tidings O countrymen and womyn! The battle for the soul of our green and pleasant land is joined again: the banners blue unfurled and proud, stamped by the novel emblem of a Toad! Now just wait a minute, interrupts Simon the Unfortunate, before Lord Toad steps up nimble and lops his head.…
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The Conspiracy
One thing I have noticed really ramp up in recent times is the profusion of conspiracy theories on the internet.
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Automated for the People
Published as part of the Dunedin City of Literature Possibilities Project For a start we are all awarded a year off, paid to do whatever we want. Aeroplanes are out, so we board sailing ships and crazy coloured zeppelins. We live for a long time (if we want.) It’s true that most of us are…
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Stray Light
billot · Stray Light
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Two poems in Takahē
Two poems of mine have been published in Takahē 98, Rage Virus and A Sea Wife. Thanks to Takahē who got this issue out online despite the current situation.