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A city littered with poetry

Submitted by Che Tibby on Monday, 03 Mar 2008.

Now, everybody has seen the poetry which seems to appear just about everywhere down near the lagoon and around Te Papa, right?

This one took me by surprise though.

Fiona Kidman, Speaking with my grandmothers


It's Fiona Kidman, and is in such a comparatively out-of-the-way place I literally stumbled across it.

The full text of the poem is here.

But can you guess where the picture was taken?

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# Submitted by stephen clover on Monday, 03 Mar 2008.

IIRC that one's down by Freyberg beach, Oriental Parade?


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# Submitted by Ben (not verified) on Monday, 03 Mar 2008.

Do you reckon we could make a map of all of the poetries on indieplaces?

http://indieplaces.com/groups/18-wellington-poetry

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# Submitted by Tom on Monday, 03 Mar 2008.

The Book Council has a map of the first phase, and descriptions of the others.

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# Submitted by artandmylife (not verified) on Monday, 03 Mar 2008.

Freyberg beach - its Phase II of the writers walk isn't it?

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# Submitted by Che Tibby on Monday, 03 Mar 2008.

wow... seems i'm behind the times!!

but serious kudos to you poetry buffs.


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# Submitted by squeet (not verified) on Tuesday, 04 Mar 2008.

I can has a buff poet?

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# Submitted by Ben (not verified) on Tuesday, 04 Mar 2008.

Thanks tom - i'm building a map of them.. If anyone could add photos of them all that'd rule - else i"ll head down sometime :)

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# Submitted by Mike Harre (not verified) on Wednesday, 05 Mar 2008.

I have a set of photos of them on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_harre/sets/72157594525929652/). You are welcome to link them if you wish :-)

Mike

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# Submitted by Ben (not verified) on Wednesday, 05 Mar 2008.

Awesome thanks mike. :)

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# Submitted by Mike Harre (not verified) on Wednesday, 05 Mar 2008.

No probs :-). Just flick me a link to the map when you finish it. Keen to see if I got them all ;-).

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# Submitted by Gavin Knight (not verified) on Tuesday, 04 Mar 2008.

the wellington writers walk is #96 on AA's 101 must do's for kiwis

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# Submitted by noizyboy on Tuesday, 04 Mar 2008.

coming in just after the Hundertwasser Toilets!


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