Christodoulos Moisa is more qualified than most to talk about the importance of place in poetry - he's a poet with many places in his past.
The Whanganui artist, photographer, poet and novelist will be one of four in a panel discussing place in poetry at the Whanganui Literary Festival. He'll also launch the second novel in his Wolf trilogy there.
The festival runs from September 29 to October 8, and Moisa is one of its local writers.
His places are almost a poem themselves. He was born in Cyprus, grew up in Wellington in the 1950s, returned to Cyprus, then to New Zealand where he lived in Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch and the Kapiti Coast, then Whanganui. He's also travelled in Europe.
"I think what happens is you draw qualities from all of the different landscapes into your work," he said.