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.