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Discover 24 tributes to this city by the sea; amazing typographical sculptures dotted unexpectedly along Wellington's picturesque waterfront.
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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, unpublished ms, Bruce Mason papers, JC Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington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
