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:
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.
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/
Very sobering Tim. Thanks for these.
Thanks, Helen!