Darby Hudson

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Darby Hudson talks about the 'creative process' and muddling through life.

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Darby Hudson

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Thoughts on putting together my live show 08.08.2024 9:14

Less than a week away to my live sho in Melbourne (August 15th) - tickets below. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

Making something out of nothing 01.08.2024 9:33

Gotta consciously wrongfoot myself to make interesting things. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

Productivity and creativity hate each other 25.07.2024 10:01

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 SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

The hidden door in rock bottom 18.07.2024 9:45

I've always been fascinated by the little doors to other worlds scattered in unassuming places. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

The horror of time 11.07.2024 9:57

Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock was Twin Peaks before Twin Peaks. (And I love David Lynch). TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

Lessons from a hangover 04.07.2024 11:26

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 SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE...

Exploiting myself for ideas I'd never thought I'd publish 27.06.2024 9:52

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 SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instag...

Courageous artists: be the first to say the thing 20.06.2024 12:15

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 SHOW Nico Dory (Flash Poetry) My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok

Best bits from 88 episodes of this podcast (some of them) 13.06.2024 8:52

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok

The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world 06.06.2024 15:24

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok

Zero expecations allow creativity to happen 30.05.2024 10:39

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) counterintuitive My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok

Smuggling your weirdness through years of the cult of sensible 23.05.2024 9:28

A few thoughts on smuggling myself through the years of the cult of sensible. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok

A hundred bad ideas to write a single good one 16.05.2024 10:15

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 creativity My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

The sum of our artistic influences... and our life 09.05.2024 10:06

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

The endless daily creative defeats make me grumpy 02.05.2024 10:02

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

We love to make meaning out of everything 25.04.2024 7:24

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

I've got an inner waggy pissed off cat's tail and an outer waggy happy dog's tail 18.04.2024 11:34

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

Balancing Sensible Self and Crazy Self (to pay bills and make art) 11.04.2024 8:19

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

Your old ideas that never found an audience are the most important 04.04.2024 12:32

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

Unexplained happiness 28.03.2024 8:15

Sometimes I'll be out somewhere, and for no reason at all, unexplained and unexpected happiness moves through me. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

I know who I am and after all these years there's a victory in that 21.03.2024 10:56

This title is after a quote from True Detective season one by Nic Pizzolatto. YouTube clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf4P1uXR6Q This ep I crap on about art being a weird way of connecting, turning strangeness into magic. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

The duty to make art in a shit culture 14.03.2024 8:33

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

Memes and culture 07.03.2024 10:09

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

Thinking out loud has changed the way I write 01.03.2024 10:18

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube

Writing in 'beginner mode' and poetry as a baseline to find one's voice 22.02.2024 11:51

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 LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube