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Darby Hudson: the Melbourne poet dissenter captivating the world
28th August 2025
Darby Hudson’s “little word boxes,” as he calls them, have gathered a devoted following on social media – among them Hollywood actors Juliette Lewis and Demi Moore, Breaking Bad writer and co-producer Moira Walley-Beckett, and True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto.
Hudson, whose books include Darby, Love: Alive Things Mum Said To Me Before She Died and You’re Going to be OK (Because You’re F’d No Matter What), is part literary mutineer, part self-professed cynic. Yet, as Sarah Daniell discovers, the Melbourne writer is paradoxically whimsical, watchful, and very funny.