Talk Wellington: Kōrero Shaping Wellington was set up in 2017 to be a blog focusing on many aspects of life in the Wellington region, but with an emphasis on geography, climate change, urban design and transport. This year, their focus is on transport:
Region-wide, 2018 is a big year for transport.
So this year Talk Wellington is focussing on how transport is influencing people’s quality of life – from our streets, neighbourhoods, suburbs, to our towns and region.
One of the varieties of kōrero on the site is poetry, and Talk Wellington has been kind enough to carry a couple of my poems with a climate change and transport focus recently: "All That Summer" and "Dominion". You can read them both in full on the site, and then stay for all the other interesting comment Talk Wellington has to offer.
All That Summer
There’s a lot of great kōrero in Wellington about climate change, but what could happen if that talk doesn’t translate to action? This Friday poem is a portal into our city’s future.
Dominion
How cars take our souls as well as our lives.
Credit note - and where you can find more poems on similar themes:
From Tim Jones’s latest poetry collection
New Sea Land (Mākaro Press, 2016):
https://makaropress.co.nz/submarine-books-2/new-sea-land-by-tim-jones/
2 comments:
Very sobering Tim. Thanks for these.
Thanks, Helen!
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