Treasure for Poetry Lovers
Five original Dust poems are hidden around Sydney Olympic Park. A landscape of construction, new development, leisure, business and sport, the Park is a rich and varied place to explore. The clues are here to send you chasing down the locations of the poems.
This map of Sydney Olympic Park is fully interactive. Use the controls on the left and top of the map to navigate. Hover your cursor over each control to discover what it does. In many cases, zooming in and switching to ‘satellite’ mode will give you a clear aerial view of the location.
Each of the red ‘pins’ on the map represents a location that has a hidden treasure cache. Click on the pins to find out where.
Click on the links below to view specific locations for the Treasure Poems
1. Visitors Centre
Latitude:-33.8467531 Longitude: 151.0673037
Climb down from the sky,
don't stop to speak Verbum
or play chess,
because there's precious cargo
sleeping in soil
curled up beside the graffiti tree
and dietes reeds.
2. Awning near Figtree
Latitude:-33.8454205 Longitude: 151.0717843
More than bats hang about near fig trees,
huddling under shady stretches.
When's the day's done and the sun has dropped
this place folds away like a wing.
3. Lottery Tree
Latitude:-33.8487963 Longitude: 151.0729873
Along the highway of poems
where the Ibis forage through fallen fig leaves
follow bug-eaten routes to fill what is hollow.
4. Discus Park
Latitude:-33.8469870 Longitude: 151.0701120
Circle around the grass where an
angry giant's cogs came loose just
before she dropped a discus in the grass.
Let your ears fill with the drone of fans,
your nose with the smell of grease,
and soon you will ascend.
5. Abbatoir Precinct
Latitude:-33.8476916 Longitude: 151.0683927
Native herbs spring from animal graves,
where thorny roots fuse with metre boxes,
slide inside an archway and hear a rumbling
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