Transit of Venus: Venustransit
Almut Sandig, Urike / Baker, Hinemoana / Colquhoun, Glenn![Transit of Venus: Venustransit](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/199/19929644/CHSBZCOP0319929644.jpg)
The Transit of Venus on 6 June 2012 was the inspiration for an international, multi-layered poetry project. New Zealand's status as the Guest Country of Honour at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair was a good opportunity to realise it. In June of that year the German poets Uwe Kolbe, Brigitte Oleschinski and Ulrike Almut Sandig visited Uawa/Tolaga Bay on New Zealand's East Coast to experience the transit with the New Zealand poets Hinemoana Baker, G...