Stuart Wall grew up in New Jersey and has lived in NZ for five years. His loves and writes poetry and works part-time at the Vic Uni library. His favourite writers include Wallace Stevens, Anne Carson, Emily Dickinson, Barbara Tuchman, Thomas Mann, Cormac McCarthy, Francis Parkman and John Berryman.
Stuart Wall explores what exactly it means to be an 'unsupported artist' - earnest, but unrecognised - in light of the prevailing conditions of our time.
Stuart Wall talks to Alice Miller about her debut collection The Limits, a book of elegiac poems that inhabit and explore myth, and pose vital questions about art.
It's a condition of doubt. Of obsession and anxiety; all-consuming and devastatingly debilitating. Stuart Wall looks back on a hypochondriac self that's no longer his.