Bill Direen: Difference between revisions

From 2006 to 2017 he edited a trans-cultural literary annual ''Percutio'', "dedicated to aspects of the creative process and to works that bridge cultures".<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://writerscentre.org.nz/william-bill-direen-2010-university-of-auckland-writers-residency/|title=William (Bill) Direen: 2010 University of Auckland Writers Residency|first=Michael King Writers|last=Centre|date=2 August 2018}}</ref> He edited a special anthology in 2021 to oppose cost-cutting depletion of New Zealand National Library's non-NZ books.<ref>Scoop Publishing Ltd|= https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=140249/ |title=Ten writers at public protest against National Library plans to get rid of books |publisher= Scoop Foundation for Public Interest Journalism |access-date= 10 December 2021</ref><ref>No Disposals Anthology|= https://nodisposals.neocities.org |publisher=Writers Against NZ National Library Disposals |access-date= 10 December 2021</ref> He still performs music live, solo and in various groups named under the collective title [[The Bilders]], or under specific new names such as the trio [https://rattle.co.nz/catalogue/releases/ferocious Ferocious].

 

* '''100 Years of Darkness''' (102pp, 2023, Grapefruit USA). A poetry collection of works about films from the last hundred years, amounting to an ekphrastic history of cinema.

* '''Mindful''' (Thokei Tapes, cassette reissue, 2023). spoken word and songs recorded in Berlin in 2010.