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July 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 123 – Ali Harper

Welcome to episode 123 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Ali Harper is someone I met for the first time earlier this year. I told her I wanted to podcast her – because I knew her work. I had heard some of her albums, seen her on the TV […]
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February 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Jóhann Jóhannsson

Jóhann Jóhannsson has died. The Icelandic musician and composer was best known for his film score work but he had also composed for TV, dance, theatre and released solo albums – such as the stunning Orphée. He was 48 years old. The cause of death is not known.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Arrival, Eulogy, Film Composer, Iceland, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mother, Orphée, R.I.P., R.I.P. Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sicario, The Mercy, The Theory of Everything, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Rebecca Solnit: The Mother of All Questions

The Mother of All Questions Rebecca Solnit Haymarket Books When I was reading Men Explain Things To Me it was in the wake of the breaking of the Cosby scandal. What a sad, prescient, serendipitous and truly appalling thing it is to have this fantastic ‘sequel’/companion volume and to be reading it in the wake […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged "Further Feminisms", Book, Book Review, Companion, Essays, Feminism, Feminist, Men, Men Explain Things To Me, Mother, Motherhood, Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Solnit: The Mother of All Questions, Sequel, Silence, The Mother of All Questions, Women, Writing ·

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September 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Mother: Film

Mother! Director: Darren Aronofsky Paramount Pictures/Protozoa Pictures Making Black Swan look like a perfect rom-com for any date-night, Darren Aronofsky here sets up a taut, psychological horror that you at first think might play out along the lines of Don’t Look Now or – as is more oft-referenced – Rosemary’s Baby. There’s touches of Polanski […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Black Swan, Ed Harris, Film, Film Review, Henry Fool, Horror, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Kristen Wiig, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mother, Mother: Film, Movie, Movie Review, Pi, Requiem For A Dream, Review, Rosemary's Baby, The Fountain, The Wrestler ·

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July 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: A Handed-Down Truth

“He’s just so bright”, they say and you say, ‘thanks, I guess’ or ‘cheers’ and you pretend to make no big deal of it. It means nothing (it means everything!) See, the light went out, for you, a long time ago – it stopped shining, after failure upon failure, and too long taken to do […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Handed-Down Truth, Bright, Father, Mother, Poem, Poem: A Handed-Down Truth, Son ·

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July 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 72 – Holly Walker

Welcome to episode 72 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with former Greens MP, book reviewer, mother, blogger, occasional podcaster and the author of The Whole Intimate Mess (a mini memoir), Holly Walker. You can keep up to […]
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September 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Rivka Galchen: Little Labors

Little Labors Rivka Galchen New Directions Rivka Galchen has won awards and acclaim for her novel and short-story collections as well as for witty, wordy and worldly magazine pieces. Here she examines – in pithy asides as much as anything – the world of the mother who writes; who wishes to write and would sometimes […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Anecdotes, Babies, Book, Book Review, Books, Essays, Fables, Literarture, Little Labors, Mom, Mother, Motherhood, Mum, New Directions, Parenting, Prose Poems, Rivka Galchen, Short Stories, Stories ·

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February 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 14 – Emily Writes

Episode 14 of Sweetman Podcast is my chat with Emily Writes. She’s a “mummy blogger” – though she’s reclaiming that; people say blogger like it’s a dirty word or you’re less of a writer; people say Mummy Blogger to perhaps further invalidate… Emily Writes writes. Funnily enough. She’s been a journalist. She’s moved into blogging […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged #14, Ballet is For Everyone, Blog, Blogging, Boganette, Dear Mama, Emily Writes, Episode 14, Feminism, Feminist, Gender, Injustice, Internet, Interview, Journalism, Magazine, Mama Said, Mother, Mr. B, Mum, Mummy Blogger, New Zealand Herald, Newspaper, Nik Jarvie, Parent, Rape, Simon Sweetman, Social Justice, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast Ep 14, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 14 – Emily Writes, The Herald, Victim Blaming, Women's Weekly, Writer, Writing ·

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