This is a photo of me not writing in my End Greyhound Racing New Zealand T-shirt. You should totally check out this amazing compilation album which raises awareness and support to end greyhound racing - here’s a link
I have been not writing for months now. It is the first time in a long time I have felt like I am ‘not writing’. I am totally surrendered to the fact that I may not write again but also, I really wanted to talk to some writers about writing, some artists about art-ing. A bit selfishly to try and see if I could explore a bit more deeply my relationship with the practice of writing - I kind of want to make any re-entry meaningful. I don’t want to waste this stasis. But also cause the state I’m in at the moment - where writing seems like something impossible and foreign - seems like an interesting one to talk to people about their projects.
So here is the new series. At first I thought it would be a neat series of talking to people at the start of a project, others who are in the middle and others who are at the end of a project. I’ve now recorded an episode and I realise these neat phases don’t reflect the actual process of writing.
I am hoping this series will be quite fluid - maybe as my relationship to writing changes the structure of the series will change.
At the moment, I’m asking guests to bring an object they are ‘using’ at this phase of their work. Then we’ll have a chat about what this phase looks like.
So yes, this is just to let you know this series, with no name, which may change, starts next week with an amazing conversation with Whiti Hereaka.
Thanks again for all your support.
Ep 31: Bill Nelson Talks about Two Poems
Ep 30 Aaron Lister: Fiona Pardington's A Beautiful Hesitation
Ep 29: Simon Sweetman and Pip Adam talk about Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen
Ep 28 Porirua People's Library
Ep 27 Sarah Jane Barnett: The Time of the Giants by Anne Kennedy
Ep 26 Work by Sarah Jane Barnett
Ep 25 Rebel Moon: An AK Benefit
Ep 24 R.H.I. by Tim Corballis
Ep 23 Pukeahu: An Exploratory Anthology
Ep 22 Joe Buchanan: Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Ep 21 Lynn Jenner: Lost and Gone Away
Ep 20 Natasha Dennerstein: The Bengal Engine's Mango Afterglow by Geoff Cochrane
Ep 19 Carl Shuker: 10th Anniversary of The Method Actors
Ep 18 Overland Launch
Ep 17 Clare Needham: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Ep 16 Helen Heath: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Ep 15 John Summers: The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Ep 14: Dougal McNeill: Writing the 1926 General Strike by Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill
Ep 12 William Brandt: Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Ep 11 Tayo Aluko: Call Mr Robeson by Tayo Aluko
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