Blah Di Da

2 weeks off writing and I'm waffling about complaint poetry, writing to untangle mess, and clues to find a new direction for writing. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) ne...

I'm feeling creatively burnt out, I can't see the poetry in things anymore. Clouds look dead in the sky. So I have to engage in this paradox: the best creativity only comes when unforced and relaxed; so I'm forcing myself to take a break from creativity to relax. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I...

My new book, CONFETTI TORNADO (new and selected works) is the first book of poetry I've illustrated/painted. It's also a collection of works that are some of my faves drawn from my 3 current books, and I'm still not sick of them. In this episode, thoughts on : •putting the book together •editing: leaving out cultural hot-takes, and more towards anachronistic/grasping at innocence •how colour and p...

A Poet Laureate for Australia? I think we need a Comedian Laureate. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter Instagram TikTok darbyhudsonart.com

I ramble about what I thought in my 20s, 30s and 40s and how earning years of life brings more conviction to writing through simply recognising the patterns and cycles of the world. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Confetti To...

I had a bunch of ideas that I tried to plant and grow this week. None of them worked. Here they are. And what I thought of them. And what I might do with them. Some ideas that seem crap may work in a day or in 10 years from now with a new idea to bring them to life. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Thing...

Contrarian wisdom and unpopular opinion can produce sacred truth. Here I talk about finding ideas in the small spaces against the popular opinion of the crowd - the space where the unsaid is said. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrated po...

Two childhood films feel more important than the news these days. The world feels upsidedown and often a hostile place to publish the heart's truths. Some thoughts about this. And a quick mention of my new 'best of' book, out in Feb or March! My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Cre...

My favourite artists and places who have massively inspired my work. Sometimes I feel like I'm just a poor rip off of all my influences. I think as an artist, we grow and move from being inspired by other artists, to the original source itself: places/nature. Links to poems artists mentioned in this episode: Michael Leunig – Come Sit Down Beside Me (poem) https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/430797520...

This weeks brain dump on cat spirits, chanelling my mum's spirit (and a boring conversation from beyond life), and finding garlic in the supermarket. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Instagram TikTok...

A good walk kickstarts ideas, thoughts, inspiration. I didn't have anything ready for this episode, so I just started walking and letting it happen. Movement always inspires something. And I love a good flaneuring. Subjects include the anaesthetic qualities of doomscrolling, car mirrors with cobwebs as fly nets for spiders, and just noticing stuff on the streets. Recorded in walking Collingwood st...

Drinking alone is demonised. But what if it's used as a tool for creative thought? I share my thoughts on booze and its ability to help get us out of the way of ourselves to let the truth write itself. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrat...

I've learned a lot from sport tactics and psychology that has directly helped my art and making ideas. From entering flow states to taking set shots on goal (when facing a blank page or canvas); selecting captains to make my 'team' (ideas) better, to tactically using substitutes and time outs to help find an audience for my art. Comes with a bonus tip from what I learned from my cat. Find me: Inst...

Here I Blah Di Da about putting a book together, the nuts and bolts of my writing routine, and the balance of using engagement on social media to include certain pieces of work in a book. Subscribe to my free Substack to be part of the podcast conversation (below). Happy to answer any questions on this episode, or previous. Substack: https://darbyhudson.substack.com/ IG: @darby_hudson TikTok: @dar...

The past is full of possibility and constantly reinventing itself. Our old stories change with gained life experience. Some thoughts on mining our old stories and recurring ideas and honing them over a lifetime. IG: @darby_hudson TikTok: @darbyhudson6 Web: darbyhudsonart.com

The world makes more sense when a perfect truth is imperfectly said. Where's the balance between truth and an imperfect human voice to convey it? For me the contrast is magic and sings. It's where an artist an audience connect - when it feels like they're sharing the same sleeping dream. IG: @darby_hudson TikTok: @darbyhudson6 Web: darbyhudsonart.com

With so many “main characters” across social media and not enough stories to fit them all, is it more worthwhile to be an extra in your own life? Confessional poetry was popularised in the US in the late 50’s, early 60’s by poets like Sylvia Plath and Charles Bukowski. These days it’s how nearly everyone writes in the caption on social media – “I” this, “I” that – confessional poetry in prose form...

We crave mystery in a world where there are more answers than questions. Detectives solve mysteries. Poets deepen the mystery. But they both operate on a similar plane. A poem is really a dossier of clues that take you right up to the door of a starless black night, and at that point you have to give yourself over to something vast and unresolved. And that’s the magic. IG: darby_hudson TikTok: dar...

Here I talk about creativity and writing as a form complex pattern recognition. And I talk on words that are lived in that an an audience can feel shining through, simply by living a whole lot of life and collecting decades of nights. Find me elsewhere: IG: darby_hudson TikTok: darbyhudson6

In this episode: how I got into writing, an accidental journey, through my 20s and 30s right up until now. And a little on writing for social media and making 'content'. IG: darby_hudson TikTok: darbyhudson6 darbyhudsonart.com

Some ideas on writing that I've stumbled across over 30 years. IG: darby_hudson TikTok: darbyhudson6 darbyhudsonart.com

A brief talk about the influences I've had and the journey towards writing. IG: darby_hudson TikTok: darbyhudson6 darbyhudsonart.com