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August 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 130 – Bill Manhire
Welcome to episode 130 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. It’s Poetry Day! So I had a chat with Bill Manhire. We had in fact planned this for last year’s Poetry Day but I dropped the ball I guess, got behind, I can’t quite remember…but I do know I’ve […]Archive
July 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: True Stories
my dad and my brother have this story… they were driving in my car. they were listening to a tape I had left in there. it was agreeable to them, for them; some Talking Heads greatest hits-type thing. and just then, they drove past the cemetery and my dad pointed and nodded referencing his […]Archive
June 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 118 – Chris Tse
Welcome to episode 118 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a conversation with Chris Tse. He’s a Wellington poet. He’s done some acting and music-making too but it’s for his books How To Be Dead In A Year of Snakes and the very recently released He’s So […]Archive
May 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Nightwatchman Clicks His Flashlight: On Jon McLeary’s Double Century of Ghost Posts
Well, he’s a cricket fan, so he’ll enjoy the mention of a “double century” – but one thing I learned a while back is that you have to pick your moments and celebrate your own milestones in this writing-online caper. You have to turn up. And turn up. And turn up again. And if you […]Archive
February 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 102 – Marie Le Lievre
Welcome to episode 102 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a chat with visual artist Marie Le Lievre. She’s a Christchurch-based artist. A painter, primarily. Though her current show at Bartley & Company in Wellington features drawings and paintings.Archive
January 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 193 Sixty/Thirty
I was thinking back to myself and what I was like at a certain stage in my life – as you do. Wondering – would I even like that person I was then or would he be able to see himself in me. Take when I was thirty… 1988 A young dad – his kids […]Archive
November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Peter Pan – The Pantomime: Theatre
Peter Pan – The Pantomime Direction: Susan Wilson (written by Pinky Agnew & Lorae Parry) Circa Theatre; Circa One (Nov 18 – Dec 23/Jan 2-13) The Circa Theatre end of year panto has been a mainstay across the last year – however last year’s romp through Jack And The Beanstalk felt phoned in, stale. The […]Archive
September 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Black Butterfly: DVD
Black Butterfly [Blu-ray] Director: Brian Goodman Defiant! My folks were staying, and after a busy, social weekend we decided it was time for a film – kick back for a Sunday night DVD; something/anything. Well, I had something that was going to fit the bill – or sit somewhere between those categories. Black Butterfly was […]Archive
August 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 76 – Tamzin Beazley
Welcome to episode 76 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one arrives a day or two early – timing it with the film’s current run around the country as part of the Festival – a conversation with Tamzin Beazley; she is the wife of Booga Beazley from Head […]Archive
July 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: My Westside Story
I remember thinking that people never really burst into song in real life – you know like in the musicals; in the movies…and it was at that exact point, thinking that, when my father just piped up, out of nowhere, “maria, Maria, MARIA!” each version of the name louder and longer than the one before […]Archive
July 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman