Where to find Pavement Poetry In Wgtn this Friday
Where to find Pavement Poetry this Friday
The New Zealand Poetry Society is taking poetry to the streets with Pavement Poetry and Poetry Postcards as part of Montana Poetry Day celebrations – Friday, July 22nd. Thousands of Wellington pedestrians will be entertained as colour and literature pop up all around the central city in the middle of the grey winter.
The New Zealand Poetry Society has created a journey of twelve poems and poetry extracts that will be chalked on the pavement in Wellington’s CBD this Friday. Keep an eye out for hardy poets braving the cold to hand out free Poetry Postcards on the street between 12 to 2pm.
The Journey:
Poem Poet Placement
1.
Today - Dinah
Hawken Top of Cable Car
2.
July, July - Vincent O’Sullivan Main
Quad, Victoria University
3.
Ghost Ships - Chris Orsman
Queens Wharf
4.
The Desperadoes -
Iain Sharp Molesworth St, front of National
Library
5.
My Lost Youth - Bill Manhire Bottom
of Cable Car
6.
Energy Crisis - Rachel
McAlpine Cuba Mall
7.
Wellington - James
K Baxter front of Railway Station
8.
New View - Andrew Johnston
front of Te Papa
9.
Round
Oriental Bay - Lauris Edmond front of Freyberg pool
10.
Instructions for How to get Ahead of
yourself While the Light Still Shines
Jenny Bornholdt
Civic Square
11.
After Glover -
Harry Ricketts Courtenay Place bus depot
12.
The Basics - Geoff Cochrane
front of Unity Books
The New
Zealand Poetry Society would like to thank Montana Poetry
Day and Creative Communities - Wellington for their generous
support with this
project.
ENDS