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September 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: My First Bookstore Job
Every so often, when I want a laugh, I think back to when I worked in a book store and the flood-damage from someone leaving a fire hose running overnight wasn’t enough for the store-owner to claim all of his insurance, so he started pushing over the stands of greeting cards from by the front […]Archive
July 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 176: Carl Shuker
Welcome to episode 176 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. I first met Carl Shuker close to 20 years ago. He […]Archive
March 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 161 – Graham Reid
Welcome to episode 161 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’s a conversation I recorded back at […]Archive
January 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 153 – Kiran Dass
Welcome to episode 153 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. I had a chat with Kiran Dass – she is a […]Archive
January 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 149: Simon and Nick at the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival
Welcome to episode 149 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here’s something different. Last year I was invited along to speak with Nick Bollinger at the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival. It was a lot of fun. Part of a magic weekend in fact. And with the permission of Nick […]Archive
December 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
2018: My Year in Review
Adapting. That’s the goal of the music and arts journo now. Has been the case for a few years. But never more so than right now. I started 2018 wondering if there was much point in writing or if there were any readers left for me at all even. I then decided it was about […]Archive
November 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Lit-Sync For Your Life: LitCrawl 2018
This Saturday (November 10) I’ll be part of Lit-Sync For Your Life – which is part of LitCrawl 2018. LitCrawl is a series of literary events in Wellington across November 8-11 (you can check out my recent podcast with the event’s co-creators to get the full run-through of this year’s program). Lit-Sync For Your Life […]Archive
October 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 139 – Claire and Andrew talk LitCrawl 2018
Welcome to episode 139 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – 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 to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FM you can […]Archive
July 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 126 – Helen Heath
Welcome to episode 126 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Wellington poet Helen Heath. She’s released two volumes of poetry, her first, Graft, was nominated for a science writing award and won Best First Book; her brand new collection, Are Friends Electric is a […]Archive
June 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 397
Builders, Beatin Hearts (1983) Where did Bill/William Direen come from? I tried to find out a bit more about that just the other week – I had him around for a podcast. It’ll be up soon. It was my first time meeting him. Though I know a lot of his music and have read some […]Archive
June 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman