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Well, it was time to host the second “Say The Thing” of 2026. We had a strong card of about 20 readers of poetry, stories, and essays at MEO...
I haven’t done a video for a while — so here are six poems from the last year or so, read out by me in a one-take video. I’ll link to the po...
One Christmas, I got this two-person pup tent. So stoked. We put it up right away, out in the backyard, just a stone’s throw from the house....
My first time back at Poetry in Motion for 2026. I took the opportunity to plug our upcoming “Say The Thing” open mics for this year, at new...
We are back with the 13th episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . Our last of 2025 (on YouTube) and first of 2026 (here...
Here is a recording of my portion of a very cool literary event in Havelock North. The Cuba Press drove into town on the big orange metaphor...
Snag is a nasty wee story that includes violence and discussion of sexual assault. It’s flippant, provocative, and probably downright brutal...
This time last year we launched my second book of poetry, The Richard Poems . The launch was at the clothing and barber store, That Was Then...
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It’s been five years since we launched my first book of poetry, The Death of Music Journalism . I did a little audio podcast at the time sha...
Here’s a reading of a short story (which might also be a poem, depending on how you hear it) called Bumper Boats. You can read below an earl...
We are back with the 11th episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . Our third of 2025 is our first “Richard Bachman” epis...
Here is a podcast recording of my short story ‘Reverie Gone Astray’, from the third ‘Say The Thing’ spoken word evening, recorded, July 23,...
We are back with the eleventh episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . Our third of 2025 is King’s first collaboration,...
You can read the text below — and/or click on the arrow above to listen to the podcast of the story (also available on Sweetman Podcast on S...
Here’s three brand new poems from me at the regular Poetry in Motion open mic at the Fringe Bar in Wellington. My first time reading there i...
Just mucking around with stories — so these are two different readings of the same story. The audio and video are separate recordings, so yo...
I haven’t made a bit of music for a while. Some would say I never have — including after hearing any of the pieces. Fair enough. With that i...
I always knew when my grandfather had come home too boozed, or sometimes it was even on a night when he’d just drift in his chair. The whisk...
We are back with the tenth episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . Our second of 2025 is the King’s first YA title, The...
I haven’t made a bit of music for a while. Some would say I never have — including after hearing any of the pieces. Fair enough. With that i...
When George Harrison died, I helped move a friend from her flat in Elizabeth St to her new place then in Tasman St. From Mt Vic to Mt Cook s...
It was my first time reading at The Office in Newtown, a regular get-together for some, but a new venue for it. I read two new poems — inclu...
Here’s three brand new poems from me at the regular Poetry in Motion open mic at the Fringe Bar in Wellington. Where all of last year and ev...
I’ve mentioned my little book, The Richard Poems a bunch here. Launched in November last year. I’ve shared a few (audio) readings along the...
The final rehearsal for our show “DICK” is in the can — here’s a couple of sneak-peek clips; we were in the main room at Photospace Gallery...
I popped along to the New Zealand Society of Authors — Wellington’s first event of 2025, an open mic at Undercurrent bookshop. There were al...
We are back with the ninth episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . Our first of 2025 is the classic Pet Sematar y , and...
Another rehearsal, so a few more teaser clips of the show developing… On Friday, February 21, I’ll be performing poems from my latest book a...
We are back with the eighth episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . A bit delayed here sorry, we actually put this up f...
We are back with the seventhepisode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . And we are talking Cujo — from 1981, the classic mo...
I was the guest poet at the November edition of Poetry in Motion. They have an open mic each month, and then a Feature Poet. This month it w...
We are back with the sixth episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . And we are talking Firestarter — the first book of t...
We are back with the fifth episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . And we are talking Dead Zone — the 1979 political th...
I’ve got this (silly) idea for my next book — by which I mean the one after the one that is about to be released. I’d like to catalogue vari...
Hey there, here’s a new set of recordings — more from the files of ‘The Richard Poems’. You’ll remember I have shareda few previous times re...
We are back with the fourth episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . And we are talking The Stand — the 1978 epic novel,...
One year, when I gave up on university before it gave up on me, I made a last ditch effort to climb the hill and instead of going to class I...
Alright, it’s time for the third episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . We are talking The Shining — the 1977 novel, a...
Last night, as part of Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day, I was honoured to be both the MC and one of the poets reading at an event h...
I’ll have shared this story already — at least for paying subscribers — but here’s an audio-rendition (for all). I’m reading the story, and...
Three ‘Richard’ Poems here in a recording at home. I read them earlier tonight at the Fringe Bar. And it went well — I think. Apart from me...
Hey there, here we are with the second episode of We All Float Down Here — A Stephen King podcast . We talk about the book Salem’s Lot and t...
Hello and welcome to the We All Float Down Here podcast . Today we talk in detail about Stephen King’s debut, Carrie, what we love, what we...
This is a first go at recording a video of a new poem. The text can be read or shared here: Sounds Good! is a reader-supported publication....
Hey there, here’s a new set of recordings — more from the files of ‘The Richard Poems’. You’ll remember I have shared two previous times rea...
I’m a huge fan of Jon Ronson. I’ve been following his work for around 25 years now, and when I wrote a short piece here recently plugging hi...
An in-depth phone conversation with Henry Rollins. We promo his then-upcoming (2023) NZ tour but also talk about his move to Nashville, afte...
You’ll remember that last month I went down to the Fringe Bar and read some new poems: I’ve decided I’ll try get along and read some more of...
I took myself down to Poetry in Motion’s regular monthly open-mic night. There’s always a feature poet, but a few slots for open-mic reading...