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October 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Preview: Guest Poet For This Month’s Poetry At The Fringe (Sun, Oct 18)

One Sunday a month there’s an event called Poetry at The Fringe. Almost everything you need to know is in the title there – it features poetry, at a venue called The Fringe Bar. It’s usually the third Sunday of each month and it is free to watch – or participate. Well everyone there is participating…. […]
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September 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 50

Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979) I’ve been a Pink Floyd fan forever. And sometimes I’ve been a tiny bit guarded about that. But usually what happens is I move to one end of the catalogue and just hang there – these days it’s the early stuff that pleases me most but it was definitely the […]
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March 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Post ‘Some’ Bills: The Gig Posters You’ve Saved…Or Wish You Had Saved…

I’m always intrigued to see a version of a gig poster available for sale at the gig – usually at a ridiculously high price. And then you see people with them, after or during; the poster scrunched up like the last bit of Christmas wrapping paper on the roll. A complete waste. I would never […]
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October 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Phantom Billstickers Poetry Poster: Unfriendship

I’ve been a big fan of the Phantom Billstickers poetry posters – words on big posters plastered up around the towns, and via Facebook we seem them in cities, on signposts, around the world.  So it’s a real thrill for me to have one of my poems on the latest batch of Phantom poetry posters.  First published […]
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May 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 20 – Jim Wilson

We have made it to episode 20 of the podcast. An achievement – as far as I’m concerned. And a great chat this round, my conversation with Jim Wilson of Phantom Billstickers. I first met Jim online – as is the way of the modern and Meta worlds. We got chatting about music and one […]
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April 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Phantom Billstickers: New Partnership behind National Poetry Day 2016

It’s great news to hear that the decent, hardworking and arts-passionate folk at Phantom Billstickers are continuing their impressive effort in supporting the arts and enabling artists with a brand new partnership announced between Phantom and The NZ Book Awards Trust making 2016 (August 26 is the date) the very first Phantom Billstickers National Poetry […]
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