Four Writers Added to the Wellington
Writers Walk
Four
new benchmark sculptures will be added to the popular Wellington Writers Walk
when they are unveiled by the Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae on Thursday
21st March.
The benchmarks, created by well-known Wellington architect and
designer Fiona Christeller, feature quotes by prominent New Zealand writers,
Joy Cowley, Elizabeth Knox, Jack Lasenby and James McNeish and bring to 23 the
number of New Zealand
writers celebrated on the harbour-side walk.
The Wellington Writers Walk opened in 2002 and combines a stroll along Wellington’s waterfront with the discovery of sculptural quotations from New Zealand writers – like a series of intriguing pronouncements – often in surprising and unexpected places. The sculptures take the form of text on concrete plaques and inlaid metal on wooden ‘benchmarks’.
The Wellington Writers Walk opened in 2002 and combines a stroll along Wellington’s waterfront with the discovery of sculptural quotations from New Zealand writers – like a series of intriguing pronouncements – often in surprising and unexpected places. The sculptures take the form of text on concrete plaques and inlaid metal on wooden ‘benchmarks’.
There are
currently 19 authors, past and contemporary, sited on the walk, including
poets, novelists, playwrights and prose writers. The walk celebrates and
commemorates the place of Wellington in these writers’ lives, and their place in the life of Wellington.
Besides providing recognition to some of New Zealand’s most noted writers, the
walk promotes New Zealand literature to a wider public, particularly tourists
and visitors to the capital.
A
public walk leaving from the courtyard outside Circa Theatre at 6.30 pm on
Thursday evening will allow Wellingtonians to join the celebrations as the
benchmarks are revealed.
Wellington Writers Walk is a project of the Wellington Branch
of the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN) Inc.
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