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Kōrero: Auckland region

Auckland poem

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Auckland poem

Allen Curnow is among New Zealand’s most celebrated poets. He lived in Tohunga Crescent, Parnell. This poem, ‘The weather in Tohunga Crescent’, was written between 1979 and 1981.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Jenifer Curnow

Reference: Allen Curnow, Continuum: New and later poems 1972-1988. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1988.

Permission to reproduce the work of Allen Curnow courtesy of the copyright owner, Mrs Jenifer Curnow, c/- Tim Curnow, literary agent and consultant, Lane Cove, Sydney

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Margaret McClure, Auckland region – Arts and culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/15917/auckland-poem (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Margaret McClure, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2016.