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November 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 89 – Kirsten McDougall
Welcome to episode 89 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here I had a chat with Kirsten McDougall. She is a writer, publicist and literary manager. We discuss her various roles and talk about her two books, The Invisible Rider and Tess. The Invisible Rider is a 2012 release, […]Archive
October 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 86 – Claire Mabey & Andrew Laking (Pirate & Queen)
Welcome to episode 86 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This is a conversation with Claire Mabey and Andrew Laking (aka Pirate & Queen), they are event organisers, and the co-creators/directors of Wellington’s coolest little literary festival, Litcrawl. We talk about their backgrounds (Claire’s a book-nerd and has worked […]Archive
September 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Litcrawl 2017: Program Announced
Litcrawl is the little Wellington writing festival that could. In fact it did. And still is. Here we are now nearing its fourth iteration – Litcrawl 2017 will run across November 10-12 and will feature local, national and international names in literature. As with previous years the festival seeks to create boutique events, to place […]Archive
May 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 62 – Sarah Jane Barnett
Welcome to episode 62 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, L’affare and Yeastie Boys. This one is a conversation with writer Sarah Jane Barnett. I met Sarah through mutual friends, but before that I had written about how much I loved her first book. She’s since released a second book of poems which […]Archive
April 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
On: William Carlos Williams, American Poetics, Modern Art’s Influence And Poetry Existing In A Person’s Lifetime
“nobody can save you but yourself” – Charles Bukowski William Carlos Williams was born in the late 19th Century (September 17, 1883) and died in the midst of rock’n’roll revolution and post-modernist art in the middle of the 20th Century (March 4, 1963). A doctor, majoring in pediatrics and obstetrics, Williams kept his twin medical […]Archive
September 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman