Artists Prepare: Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick - Poets

I've been performing since I was born! Um, about 33 years. As far as doing the poems, I did my first public reading when I was about 17...

– Sam Hunt talks about his life as a poet, at the start of this documentary

These waves, have come, two thousand miles to worship at your feet. I've just come to borrow some milk, I live just down the street...

– Gary McCormick entertains students at Nelson College for Girls, early in this documentary

I've found that, certainly in New Zealand here, that the acceptance of a poet who's prepared to get out and take his poems to the people, and I don't mean to the literary elite, but to people in jails, in trade union halls and so on...ah New Zealanders seem to respect that.

– Sam Hunt reflects on the reception he gets on his poetry tours, in the second clip

Sam Hunt, why have you got your sunglasses upside down?

– A Nelson radio DJ opens his interview with poet Sam Hunt

Beware the man, who tries to fit you out in his idea of a hat, dictating the colour and the shape of it. He takes your head, carefully measures it, says "of course, black's out". He sees himself in the big, black hat, so you may be a member of the act he makes for you, your special coloured hat, beware, he's fitting you for more than that...

– Sam Hunt performs a poem during a radio interview, in the second clip