Ian WeddeIan Wedde

Ian Wedde lives in Auckland and works with Asia Society Hong Kong. He is a novelist and poet of high literary merit, and his many honours include being awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in 2014. Ian was born in 1946 in Blenheim.

The Friday Poem: ‘Ode to Auckland’ by Ian Wedde

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New verse by Auckland writer Ian Wedde.   from Ode to Auckland   When the weather warms up I swim in the murky Waitemata in the upper basin at the bottom of Hamilton Road. Sometimes my friend Jonathan is there, he’s a composer and swims about in a leisurely fashion shifting his rhythm from time … Read more