The actor is dating Caitriona Balfe, his starsign is Taurus and he is now 40 years of age. What Hunt means by "retired" is that the New Zealand poet famous for long tours and repeat visits to schools and pubs – the nomadic bard who seemed more comfortable on the road than at home – is off the road. The poems haven't retired from me either, thank God.". Trucks rush by on the highway. The police should look into any unsolved bank robberies in the north. Doting Grandsam produces a letter and photo. You get distracted by bulls.... "So my life has changed. Big difference. Poet Sam Hunt in the kitchen with his Bob Dylan tea towel. He has more than 1.3 million followers on Facebook, 599.2k followers on Twitter, and 2.4 million followers on Instagram. The singer tries to drum up a game of basketball any day that he can, whether on tour or at home. A late starter like Einstein and Churchill. There is some stuff you get from friends. Football star-turned-country hitmaker keeps road traditions going, even on a rare day off. His style is the poet as outlaw, vagabond and other such words. An appearance on the TV arts show Kaleidoscope in the early 1970s made him famous overnight and there is a way in which his whole life since has been a realisation of the project he conceived in his teens. I forget when we first got the Dylan Thomas record.". "It hadn't occurred to me but I thought about it, and it's right. Sign up for our newsletter. "It was proving the old theory that poems are there to be told. In 2012, the artist Dick Frizzell completed a series of paintings of Sam Hunt poems. Years passed. He remembers how he learned it. I'm not stuck in the mud, but I do get that feeling now and again. His last book of new poems, Salt River Songs, sold just under 3000. But the line hangs over the afternoon. Coming To It: Selected Poems by Sam Hunt (Potton & Burton, $29.99). He was named 2002 Co-Offensive Player of the Year, was selected for the Georgia Sportswriters Association All-State Class AAA first-team as an all-purpose player, and was a Wendy's High School Heisman nominee. His friends tell him he has become a recluse. Caught Smoking: These Are The 60 Most Shocking Celebrity Smokers. I didn't want to go to wherever I was meant to be going. "When I was a child, a Hungarian woman, her name was Nora, she came out in 1956 as a refugee. "But it was three score years and 10. "Not Carthusian style, but Cistercian style," he asserts. Hunt recited poems while the band played in an old pub in Port Chalmers. In 2012, the artist Dick Frizzell completed a series of paintings of Sam Hunt poems. I go to the store most days but often days will go by and I haven't talked to anyone. Of course, at television, in the magazines and in the, You might wonder where celebrities with so much money on their bank account live. A bit like your car, stuck in the mud. But it may have just stopped her so she could have kept on living and writing those phenomenal poems.". ', Sam Hunt performs at Onslow College, Wellington, in 1982: 'It was proving the old theory that poems are there to be told.'. I thought, if only Sylvia could have seen something like that happen. He’s fiercely religious about staying in shape, and doing so with friends is his favorite workout. But he is no longer doing shows? "It's the ultimate road code," Hunt says. ", On the CD, Hunt and band are doing The Seventh, a poem by Jozsef Attila that has been part of Hunt's repertoire for years. Anyway, that Dylan Thomas record. "It's a wonder I haven't ended up inside for something," he muses. He has set lists written out and he runs through the material, setting himself tasks – say, an hour of Yeats performed from memory. These are good numbers for New Zealand poetry, which is usually in a 250-500 ballpark, but he is an accessible poet and there is a lot of residual love for him. It’s a lot more fulfilling having your family and your people around.”. Maybe it was all those public bars and school visits. He is still good company – eccentric, talkative, charismatic – even in his retirement, even as a recluse. There are sad lines about the old contralto Clara Tawe Jenkins, who sits at the window and sings to the sea, for the sea does not notice that her voice has gone. I'm working just as hard, I just don't have to be there at a particular time. The beauty and the mystery, the quiet and seclusion. A telescope in the lounge is pointed at the water. The Sylvia Plath​ recordings, too, where all the darkness of Daddy and Lady Lazarus was in her voice. On 30-4-1980 Sam Heughan (nickname: Sam) was born in New Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom. New Zealand's best known poet has retired. Sam Hunt at home. Back then he figured "it" was inspiration or a realisation. He studied at Cedartown High School where he played football. "This is off the road. The topic of religion comes back. We had such a good time, and it evolved into something more permanent.”. “But I came home one day and my roommate, Tyrone [Carreker] was on the couch playing guitar and I asked him if he’d go up with me to Ohio to play an acoustic gig. He is stationary. Sam Hunt with his dog Minstrel in 1983 at the Mana boat shed he called home. He made his 5 million dollar fortune with A Princess for Christmas, Emulsion, Outlander. If you are ever on Highway 12 in Northland around midday, we can recommend the Thirsty Tui gastropub in Paparoa. St Peter's College may have been pleased to see the back of him but there were benefits of his Catholic education, including having poet Ken Arvidson as an English teacher. “We’ve been buddies for a while, but we’ve become even closer after getting into this music thing,” says Hunt, whose debut album, last year’s Montevallo, has already spawned two chart-topping, platinum-selling hits. God bless him, but I don't want to sound like that. "F...ing beautiful. On 30-4-1980 Sam Heughan (nickname: Sam) was born in New Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom. Hunt called Challis' Poem for Magda one of the great New Zealand love poems and it reminds him that Challis' widow just sent him a small book of Challis' translations of Spanish poets. "I'll make a joint and stop worrying.". His oldest son, Tom, 42, lives in Wellington and is father of the poet's grandson, Loki, aged 7. For a long time, Hunt was a solo dad up here in the remote north but Alf, who is 20, is living down in Auckland now and learning to be a builder. Did he retire at a symbolic 70? This friendly attractive talented actor originating from New Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom has a athletic body & oval face type. He would read it to the kids. Now it means death – as well as inspiration, he hopes. Here is young Loki running at some school sports event. First, lunch. I robbed a few banks at the appropriate time and that was handy.". When Tom was born, I took a couple of years off the road.". He didn't know who Paavo Nurmi was but he does now. During our day with Hunt, he and his roommates-turned-bandmates spent some time dealing with plumbing and electricity problems at their house, later meeting up with the entire band for soundcheck, as they prepped for their opening slot on Lady Antebellum’s Wheels Up Tour.