Big Weather - Poems of Wellington

Large inscription on title page.

Since the nineteenth century, Wellington has been the site and object of much literary activity and never more so than now. Where many of New Zealand's leading poets once wandered, frequenting bars, delivering mail up the steepest of streets, raising their children in the suburbs, today's XY generation are now vividly, energetically present, and recent poetry has kept track of the changing inner and outer life of the city. As well as New Zealand's major writers, visitors from near and far have responded to the city - poets as various as Australian Henry Lawson and Americans Robert Creeley and Michael Palmer. Big Weather: Poems of Wellington captures the vivacity and diversity of the capital, beginning with the inner city and harbour, moving into the suburbs and parks, heading out to Lower Hutt, Porirua and as far north as Paraparaumu before - in this new edition - turning again to the heart of the city, this time in the twenty-first century. These poems provide a composite portrait of Wellington and a celebration of its bustling creative life.