A book celebrating ten years of Ōtepoti Dunedin as Aotearoa New Zealand’s UNESCO City of Literature, and 100 years of Janet Frame. Within these pages, readers will find original work from 60 writers: collaborative and individual poems, celebrated poets and new voices. The book also includes works by poets we have lost but whose work resonates in our community and in the world: Janet Frame, Peter Olds, Elizabeth Brooke-Carr and Vincent O’Sullivan.
The book opens with a poem by Robert Sullivan and closes with Dunedin soundscapes. On every page between, there is something special about this place – our histories, our perspectives; the colours, rhythms and moods of our landscapes and our selves. In Ōtepoti, there much to examine, and celebrate, from hills to harbour.
Created as a gift to honour the UNESCO City of Literature and launched on August 28, 2024, National Poetry Day.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Poem for Ōtepoti
Robert Sullivan
Dunedin Poem
Janet Frame
A Water Cycle
I.
Raindrops | Kōpata
II.
II. Lindsay | Puke Haukea III. Ross
III.
IV. Leith | Ōwheo
IV.
V. Te Moana nui a Kiwa
Susan Wardell & Kirstie McKinnon
Anzac Avenue
Majella Cullinane
Double Vision
Carolyn McCurdie & Emma Neale
Driving to lit city
Linda Collins & Brenda Finlayson
Explore a breadth of Dunedin, long-stemmed and
outstanding
Kim Cope Tait & Liz Breslin
Blacks Road Grocer Cafe Poem for Two
Tui Bevin & Lissa Moore
Hereweka
Samantha Montgomerie
Shoes and Stars
Jillian Sullivan & Brian Turner
Dream no. 4: Blooming
Lola Elvy
From Hills to Harbour
Eliana Gray & Iona Winter
Bananas at Broad Bay
Anna Hoek-Sims
Ninox
Jasmine O M Taylor
This city fits
Mikaela Nyman & Pam Morrison
Chapters of Downpour
Ocean Jade, Hugo Todd, Bram Casey, Tunmise Adebowale &
Shima Jack
Middlemarch to Dunedin State Highway 87
Bill Direen
Dunedin Sound
David Howard & Victor Billot
The Steepest Street in the World
David Eggleton
On the Peninsula
Sandie Forsyth & Penelope Todd
Towards Whatever it is that Keeps Things Apart
Lynley Edmeades
Sheepish Vigil
Claire Lacey
Dunedin, Part one and Part two
Lynda Scott Araya & Kay McKenzie Cooke
The Soldier and the Poet
Claire Beynon, with Elizabeth Brooke-Carr
In which the Royal Albatross sings to the Spade-toothed
Whale
Bethany G Rogers & Sara Litchfield
Kōkako
Robyn Maree Pickens
4am
Rushi Vyas
Fog and For the Orokonui Ecosanctuary
Richard Reeve & David Kārena-Holmes
Ōwheo
Sue Wootton
The Callers
Annie Villiers & Fiona Farrell Delight, too, after
Delight
Philip Temple, with Vincent O’Sullivan
Auscultating New Edinburgh
Nicola Thorstensen & Sophia Wilson
Beach party at 55, after The blue horse
Jenny Powell, with Peter Olds
On the cliff
Megan Kitching
Way Up South
Cilla McQueen
All these sounds, morn to moon
Michelle Elvy & Diane Brown
Notes
Contributors
Acknowledgements
