Resonance XXI
Somehow I wanted to relate the Town
Belt to the various clocks and the idea came from a series of
photographs I had taken several years ago that juxtaposed the
Railway Station with native trees in the foreground and I decided
to search for similar links for the other clock towers. While
I could find good native trees around the University Clock tower,
it was impossible to visually relate these to the clock and the
only tree that allowed this was a single Kowhai Tree. The Town
Hall was a little easier in that there are a number of healthy
trees growing on the balcony of the Mayor's office in the Civic
centre. The native trees in front of the Railway Station have
since been ripped out to make way for a Flemish Knot Garden.
Map of Brighton indicating where the image Resonance XXI as taken from
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James K Baxter - Poem
references
Dunedin
Revisited 1961 CP 235
Three clocks clang
early summer time
Across a town as cold as a Shacklock range.
The Cold Hub
1961 CP 256
Laying awake on
a bench in the town belt...
Laying awake to
the sound of clocks,
The Railway clock, the Town Hall clock,
And the Varsity clock
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