Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Roadworks


[photograph: Jack Ross (2006)]

Roadworks
Auckland Geography


(for Anna Rugis)


The city is a map of the city
– Ciaran Carson, Belfast Confetti



This is my current work-in-progress -- a set of interlinked poems about my own personal map of where I live. They run in geographical order from north to south ...

Here are the poems:

  1. O Canada! (30-31/7/03)
  2. Cruisy morning, eh? (8-19/8/03)
  3. Tentacles of Destruction (14 & 20-27/5/04)
  4. The Asbestos Hands of Dr. J. (7/10/04-26/1/06)
  5. We were Soldiers (20-21/4/02)
  6. Castor Bay (17-24/2/06)
  7. DEATH & BEYOND (2-5/6/03)
  8. Refrigerium (20-22/1/06)
  9. Birkenhead (21-22/11/03)
  10. A Sunday Walk (13-31/7/03)
  11. Such Manners (21-23/12/05)
  12. First Night (20-21/4/02)
  13. Cycle Couriers in Freyberg Square (17-25/2/06)
  14. This DVD contains everything there is to know about Stargate - & more! (13-15/9/05)
  15. The Kid Stays in the Picture (27-28/5/03)
  16. Every girl’s a babe (6-10/9/05)
  17. Newmarket (30/6-22/7/03)
  18. Unsuccessful Applicant for Neighbourhood Watch (29/9/05)
  19. Coromandel (26-28/7/03)
  20. Blinds (28/2-11/3/06)


It also functions as a game, the Auckland Game.

The rules are here.

Basically they're very simple.

Start off on the place gameboard, then move onto time.

Here's a list of the poems by place, and here they are again by time.

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