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
  • 2020

    2020

    Oh boy. If you’re reading this, you made it through. A freak, a mutant, the year that said “BOO!”

    December 22, 2020
  • Socialist poet in Dunedin bites back at Taxpayers’ Union attack

    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.”

    November 25, 2020
  • The mind virus of right wing conspiracies

    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.

    August 24, 2020
  • Showing promise: a poem for Hamish Walker

    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.

    July 12, 2020
  • Working Class Hero

    Working Class Hero

    As Minister of Social Development I went hard, I developed people out of houses into cars.

    July 5, 2020
  • Ride the Dave Wave: a poem for David Clark

    Ride the Dave Wave: a poem for David Clark

    Hark! Hark! It’s Dave Clark, riding his unicycle round the bike park.

    June 28, 2020
  • Green Eggs and Porridge: a poem for Prince Andrew

    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.

    June 14, 2020
  • Go Big or Go Home: a poem for Donald Trump

    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 …

    June 4, 2020
  • The Rise of Toad: or a verse marking the anointment of a new leader of the National Party, 22 May 2020

    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.…

    May 22, 2020
  • The Conspiracy

    The Conspiracy

    One thing I have noticed really ramp up in recent times is the profusion of conspiracy theories on the internet.

    May 11, 2020
  • Automated for the People

    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…

    May 5, 2020
  • Stray Light

    Stray Light

    billot · Stray Light

    May 4, 2020
  • Two poems in Takahē

    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.

    April 25, 2020
  • Bat Flu

    Bat Flu

     

    April 5, 2020
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