What parts of me are me? A bit of psuedo-philoshophical waffle of an ep.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I've had to learn to balance chaos and routine in my life... forcibly. And the writing started to pour out.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

Some thoughts on finding an audience over 30 years and writing ten books until I'd made my best one.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

A few things I've learned to jumpstart me old brain.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I miss good stories.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

Dedicating life to art can feel full of meaning and a complete waste of time.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I've invested much of life placing the cart before the horse and things are starting to work.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I've always loved the idea of radical acceptance, or whatever new-agey people call it. I struggle with it, so writing about it always helps me understand it, grasp it..My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

Relaxing is hard work for me. Sometime I feel like who I am is too tied up in the stuff I make. So it's interesting to force myself to just be a person without the magic of creativity.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTube

"YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK... " is probably my favourite book. You can find it in the link below. It's sorta fitting this is me 100th episode. The book is made from bits and pieces from all my poems across all my books. Just the juiciest most combustible lines.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTube

Well, that was a leap off a cliff. It went better than I expected, Lots of learning from it. Parts when really well, some not so well. But overall I suprised myself.My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I once read only to learn. Everything else felt like a waste of time. But learning also brings me anxiety. I love reading genre crime fiction, it lowers my anxiety, it takes me away from myself, the world.My two current crime fiction/psychological thriller writers:Michael ConnellyFrieda McfaddenAnd Thomas Harris - Red Dragon (part of the Hannibal Lecter anthology is absolutely exquisite)My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OKYOU'RE GOING TO BE OKMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube#art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

Less than a week away to my live sho in Melbourne (August 15th) - tickets below.TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOWMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTube

Gotta consciously wrongfoot myself to make interesting things. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOWMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTube

Running a 'poetry business' is weird and business me and creative me are often at odds with each other. Batching has taken these two version of me out of the same room and given me a little more breathing space.TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOWMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTube

I've always been fascinated by the little doors to other worlds scattered in unassuming places.TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOWMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTube

Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock was Twin Peaks before Twin Peaks. (And I love David Lynch).TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOWMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTube

I often felt lost and unconfident in not knowing what I was doing when I was in my 20s. I still don't know what I'm doing but I'm more confident about it. But a brutal hangover reminded me what it was like to be in my 20s and feel lost for a day... in my 20s I'd experience this feeling without even needing a hangover, and often!TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOWMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTubeInstagramTikTok

I've kept a lot of my life personal, even though most of my stuff is written very personally. But I've crossed a small line into posting about stuff that I haven't before and it feels like very new territory. And more interesting territory.TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOWMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTubeInstagramTikTok

I crap on about the courage to be the first to say what everyone's thinking. Good ideas. And a brief chat with Matt Hardy who's producing me first show.TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOWNico Dory (Flash Poetry)My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTubeInstagramTikTok

I took the top ten downloaded episodes, went through the transcripts and found my fave bits from each and here I am reading them out.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTubeInstagramTikTok

This is something I recorded a year back that started all my videos. I've added a few more ideas/minutes to it.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTubeInstagramTikTok

I give my writing and painting a long leash, and often no leash at all. I have to trust it will do its thing. It's all (sometimes frustratingly) counterintuitiveMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTubeInstagramTikTok

A few thoughts on smuggling myself through the years of the cult of sensible.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsYouTubeInstagramTikTok

It's thrilling when I post what I think is a shit idea and it resonates with an audience. Especially when all my good ideas don't resonate, and a single bad one does. It reminds me I don't own my creativityMy new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I'm the sum of my influences and nearly 50 years of just existing. I've been feeling recently I'm stepping into a void left my some of my favourite artists and writers. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Only 1% of my stuff works and 99% of it is rubbish. It can effect me emotionally. I can get really grumpy when the creativity isn't going my way. But it's part of it. It's always been part of it.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I posted something on social media recently about a little secret game I play with myself that seemed to resonate - that makes me believe we're constantly starving for meaning our lives. I might be wrong.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I've writen and recorded a lot of cynical videos over the past 6 months. Perhaps it's time to mix it up (soonish)..My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I struggled for years trying to find the balance going to work and pretending to be sensible then getting home to get insane to make interesting things.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

It's something I've been rambling about recently, but it took 30 years to find an audience and none of the stuff I made over this time without an audience has gone to waste. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Sometimes I'll be out somewhere, and for no reason at all, unexplained and unexpected happiness moves through me.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

This title is after a quote from True Detective season one by Nic Pizzolatto. YouTube clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf4P1uXR6QThis ep I crap on about art being a weird way of connecting, turning strangeness into magic.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Here I crap on about traditional gatekeepers and our inner gatekeeper. And Trojan horsing/subversive social commentary through different avenues.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Just a little thought on memes and how they shape thinking. I am no academic or sociological expert. Entertainment purposes only 😂My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Thinking aloud helped massively this last year, mainly thanks to making this podcast! I never thought I'd enjoy it. I never know what I'm thinking untiil it tumbles outta my mouth, threads back through my ears and then written with the hand.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I have to constantly trick my brain back into beginner mode. As soon as I think I'm an 'expert' on a particular way of writing, my writing is dead on the page.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

This week I read a few poems from my book and talk about a quote from Cormac McCarthy that was in the back of my mind while I wrote it.My new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

This week feels like a bit of a diary entry (recently they sorta have been) but here I waffle-reflect on finishing a book and searching and planting the seeds for a new idea to begin.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Forks in the road towards a weird career in the arts.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

A little blah di da reflection on writing without an audience for 30 years.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Sometimes I'll write stuff purely on 'cleverness' and it will lack something. It feels like I've sold out to myself. But sometimes I have to write these hollow pieces to break through to the real stuff.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Talking about David Chase from the Sopranos, David Lynch, and not giving a shit as aid to creative breakthroughs.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I thought I'd document the writing process of one of my videos I shared recently on TikTok and Instagram "Envy disguised as moral highground". Also there's a little bit I learned on writer's rooms (from the Sopranos showrunner, David Chase) at the end.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Walking to the supermarket (excuse the clicking of the leaves I'm walking on) and some thoughts on the time of the year between Christmas and New Years.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I used to visit a cafe next to a nursing home. It was incredible. Anxiety reducing. And I've noticed how some of my favourite artists write beyond themselves when physically frail and elderly.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

All the creative breakthroughs I've had over 40 years and significant moments that have inspired me.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints:Books and printsFind me:My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Each book I've written seems to have had an abberant piece in it - like a doorway to the next book.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok