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Discover 23 tributes to this city by the sea; amazing typographical sculptures dotted unexpectedly along Wellington's picturesque waterfront.

Elizabeth Knox

From 'Provenance' in The Love School, Victoria University Press, 2008
Eileen Duggan

From 'The Acolyte' in Selected Poems: Eileen Duggan, ed. Peter Whiteford, Victoria University Press, 1994
Denis Glover

From 'Wellington Harbour is a Laundry' in Come High Water, Dunmore Press, 1977
Michael King

From Being Pakeha Now, Penguin Books, 1999
Louis Johnson

From 'Last View of Wellington' in Fires and Patterns, The Jacaranda Press, 1975
Pat Lawlor

From Old Wellington Days, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1959
Lauris Edmond

From 'The Active Voice' in Scenes from a Small City, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1994
Vincent O'Sullivan

From 'Driving South with Lucy to the Big Blue Hills' in Seeing You Asked, Victoria University Press, 1998
Maurice Gee

From Going West, Faber and Faber, 1992
Patricia Grace

From Cousins, Penguin Books, 1992
Jack Lasenby

From The Conjurer, Oxford University Press, 1992
Bill Manhire

From 'Milky Way Bar' in Milky Way Bar, Victoria University Press, 1991
Sam Hunt

From 'Letter to Jerusalem 2' in Collected Poems 1963 - 1980, Penguin Books, 1980
Bruce Mason

From Theatre in 1981: Omens and Portents, unpublished ms, Bruce Mason papers, JC Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell

From 'Blue Rain' in The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Hazard Press, 2003
Robin Hyde

From 'Words' in Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde, ed. Michele Leggott, Auckland University Press, 2003
James K. Baxter

From 'The Maori Jesus' in Collected Poems of James K Baxter, ed. J E Weir, Oxford University Press, 2003
Katherine Mansfield

From 'The Wind Blows' in Bliss and Other Stories, Penguin Books, 2001
Joy Cowley

From the poem 'After the Southerly' in Writing from the Heart, (Storylines, 2010)
James McNeish

From The Crime of Huey Dunstan, Random House, 2010
Marilyn Duckworth

From A Barbarous Tongue, Hutchinson, 1963
Fiona Kidman

From 'Speaking with my Grandmothers' in Writing Wellington, ed. Roger Robinson, Victoria University Press, 1999
Barbara Anderson

From 'The Girls' in I Think We Should Go into the Jungle, Victoria University Press, 1989