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April 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Graeme Jefferies: Time Flowing Backwards
Time Flowing Backwards: A Memoir Graeme Jefferies Mosiac Press Graeme Jefferies has made some of the great noisy pop from New Zealand – he’s sent it out to the world, taken it with him as he’s traveled through America and based himself – for huge periods of time – in Europe; then he brought it all back home […]Archive
April 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Carl Shuker: A Mistake
A Mistake Carl Shuker VUP The literary page-turner – a rare beast. Pip Adam can do it. John Colapinto managed it with both fiction and non-fiction and here Carl Shuker manages it and essentially turns non-fiction into fiction, or frames fiction via non-fiction and/or vice-versa. But what’s true, instantly, of A Mistake, his fifth novel, is that the writing is electric, the […]Archive
March 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Give My Regards To St. Mary Street
We lived in Thorndon – St Mary Street – for just over six years. It was the first house we owned. A wee cottage. We loved it so much. There were great kitchen parties and music was always a feature. We moved in the day Ray Charles died. I know this because when I was collecting boxes […]Archive
March 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Box Brown: Is This Guy For Real? – The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman
Is This Guy For Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman Box Brown First Second A graphic novel about Andy Kaufman written and drawn by the guy that paid tribute to Andre The Giant using the same form – I’m in!Archive
March 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Ross Murray: Rufus Marigold
Rufus Marigold Ross Murray Earth’s End Ross Murray’s Rufus Marigold comic strip began life online – now it’s a book – expanded, new panels, new stories. It’s a wonderful examination of social anxiety. Much like Brent Williams’ powerful Out of the Woods graphic novel it is doing great work for explaining lived-experience with mental illness; for normalising, de-stigmatising. I’m not an anxiety-sufferer, but, like anyone, […]Archive
February 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 157 – David Cohen
Welcome to episode 157 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Here I not only had a chat with Wellington-based, internationally-published […]Archive
February 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Rants In The Dark: Theatre
Rants In The Dark Directed by Lyndee-Jane Rutherford (based on the book by Emily Writes adapted for the stage by Mel Dodge, Lyndee-Jane Rutherford and Bevin Linkhorn) Circa Theatre; Circa One (January 19 – February 16) [Good Times Company] Yes, due to bad holiday-planning I am very late to Rants In The Dark – but I saw the opening night […]Archive
February 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 154 – Peter Wells
Welcome to episode 154 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Here I have a conversation with Peter Wells.Archive
January 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Ali Whitelock: and my heart crumples like a coke can
and my heart crumples like a coke can Ali Whitelock Wakefield Press I finished reading Ali Whitelock’s poetry volume the day I heard of Mary Oliver’s passing. I had been savouring the pages of “coke can”, taking my time, reading no more than four poems in a sitting; deep stories, they require a lot of you (in the best possible way), they sit with […]Archive
January 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
John Cooper Clarke: The Luckiest Guy Alive
The Luckiest Guy Alive John Cooper Clarke Picador “Dr.” John Cooper Clarke is, like our own Sam Hunt, perhaps better known for his voice, for his performances, rather than actual words on the page. Both have published books, been anthologised, and recorded audio – but it’s about the spirit of the performance on the night; […]Archive
December 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman