A public literary sculpture in Te Aro, Wellington, and one of the stops on the Wellington Writers Walk. Each piece is a typographical plaque that carries a quotation from a New Zealand writer, set into the city's waterfront paths, so visitors find the words as they walk.
The Walk has 24 tributes in all, with quotations from 24 poets, novelists and playwrights, past and present. The pieces are meant to show how Wellington appears in these writers' lives, and how those writers have shaped the city. The Walk is a project of the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ), and it aims to bring New Zealand literature to visitors to the capital.
The Walk opened on 11 March 2002 during Writers and Readers Week, and more plaques were added in 2004, 2009 and 2013. The concrete plaques and the later benchmarks are designed to be read on foot, so the Walk suits a slow stroll along the waterfront rather than a single visit to one stop.
The sculpture is at 33 Herd Street, Te Aro. Our pick in Wellington for an easy walk that doubles as a short literary tour.