Since I had the pleasure of working with him in the early 1990s – firstly on a collaboration in which I set some of his lyrics to music, and then acting in a contemporary opera of my own which he kindly directed – I had a glimpse of different sides of his relationship with music. He was a poet who needed composers, and a co-mingling director who knew the power and potential of music in performance.
Alan Brunton at the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre
Alan Brunton and the dream of a revolutionary art.
Murray Edmond remembers Alan Brunton.
Peter Olds's tribute to Alan Brunton
Transcript of Alan Brunton interview by Chris Bourke for Big Smoke radio documentary, 2000.
Alan Brunton in performance, 1974-2002