The Urban Walking Festival is seeking poets to perform at a poetry walk through Takapuna responding to its literary history.
The walk will start at Frank Sargesson’s house on Esmonde Rd and finish at the Soap Box in Killarney Park.
Writers along the route include Janet Frame, Karl Wolfskehl and Bruce Mason. We will stop at 38 Hurstmere, a open air community space that speaks to the urban change in Takapuna and the Soap Box, a sculpture as platform created in response to women’s suffrage.
We are looking for 6 performance poets to create poems responding to these sites. The poems will be performed by the poets on the day. We are also interested in publishing the poems as posters at 38 Hurstmere.
Participant Fee: $150
Walk Date: 9 May, 2 – 4pm
Applications close midnight, 19 March
For more about Takapuna’s literary history download heritage walks
Email melissa@melissalaing.com with:
Your name
A contact number
Links to previous performances and published poems
Which site or writer you’d like to perform in response to
If you have a connection to Takapuna
NZ Poetry Shelf 