The death of music journalism
By: Simon Sweetman
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781988595276
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Music journalists; Poetry; New Zealand poetry
Description: " Simon's collection is as wide-ranging as his career to date. He writes about late-night encounters on the phone with rock stars, hanging out as a student in Wellington flats, the simplicity of time spent with family and the unpredictable life of a freelance music reviewer, and what happens when these things occasionally intersect. A natural storyteller whose poetry is filled with characters both famous and ordinary, this eagerly awaited collection is unpredictable, anarchic, playful and surprisingly heartfelt"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Machine-generated:; title: Starts off well, a lot of name-dropping though ... and I don't hear a single; title: Simon Sweetman, this is your life; title: I took a photo of Sam Hunt in Upper Hutt 20 years ago; title: Mark Knopfler called my house one time; title: The fucking problem; title: Meeting Bruno; title: Boxing on; title: A ham sandwich walks into a bar; title: Friends just can't be found; title: Beatles theory; title: Convalescence; title: Everyone; title: All hail; title: Giving the drummer some; title: Tight connection (to the heart); title: The (difficult) second section; title: End of the Larkin Line; title: Father and Son; title: Why depression isn't just something that happens to other people; title: Date scone; title: new lovesong; title: Big 0/little o; title: The flat on The Terrace; title: A fine thing; title: Poems; title: Memory; title: Weekend fun; title: Quick fix; title: Taxi; title: Yeah, but that's just, like, your opinion, man!; title: The TED Bundy talks; title: Winner, winner, chicken dinner!; title: Name-drop ... what a cock!; title: The fluffer to the devil's advocate; title: Mindfulness at heart; title: Different fires; title: In turn; title: John Quatrain; title: Quatrain refrain; title: It takes time to heal but time is not a healer; title: & in the end ... Let me entertain you; title: That second Eric Clapton concert I went to; title: True Stories; title: We bonded over Sonny Rollins and Faith No More and Lenny Kravitz and so much more; title: My brother and me; title: Dylan wrote Infidels when he was 42; title: We listen to The Beatles; title: realtalk -Acknowledgements.