Wearing his trademark skin-tight jeans, pointy boots and shirt with upturned collar, the bard had the lunchtime audience of more than 200 people hanging on every word.
Hunt (61) frequently fluffed his lines, but easily charmed his way through the recital of what he calls his "songs for the tone deaf".
The 1975 University of Otago Burns Fellow will also take part in the Burns Poets in Performance recital at 11.30am on Sunday at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, with fellow Burns Fellows David Eggleton, Cilla McQueen, John Ashcroft and John Dickson.
While in Dunedin, Hunt will complete an album he has been working on with David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights.
He also recently collaborated with Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie on a commissioned work, Coming to It, with the Wellington Sinfonia, and has just published his first book of poetry in a decade, Doubtless. (Craig Potton Publishing, $30).
