Face to the Sky (poetry)
Published by Auckland University Press on April 13, 2023
Michele Leggott
ANZL Member
Photo credit: Tim Page
An award-winning poet, academic, essayist and editor, Michele Leggott has published eleven collections of poetry, including Milk & Honey (2005, 2006), Journey to Portugal (2007), Mirabile Dictu (2009) and Heartland (2014).
She edited Robin Hyde’s long poem The Book of Nadath (1999) and Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (2003). A major project since 2001 has been the development of the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) at the University of Auckland.
She was the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007-09 and received a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2009 New Year Honours for Services to Poetry. In 2013 she was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry.
Her latest collection Face to the Sky speaks to the art and writings of nineteenth-century New Zealand painter Emily Cumming Harris. The collection tells stories of love and loss from two women in the shadow the same mountain, more than a century apart.
Links
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page
Auckland University Press writer page and book list
NZ Electronic Poetry Centre poet page
NZ Poet Laureate blog page (2007 – 2009)
New releases by Michele Leggott
Bibliography: Michele Leggot
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Poetry
Face to the Sky (Auckland University Press, 2023)
Mezzaluna (Auckland UP; first published by Wesleyan University Press, US, 2020)
Vanishing Points (Auckland UP, 2017)
Heartland (Auckland UP, 2014)
Mirabile Dictu (Auckland UP, 2009)
Journey to Portugal (Holloway Press, 2006)
Milk & Honey (Auckland UP, 2005)
Like This?: Poems (Caxton Press, 1988)
As far as I can see (Auckland UP, 1999)
DIA (Auckland UP, 1994)
Swimmers, Dancers (Auckland UP, 1991)
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Editor
Young Knowledge: the poems of Robin Hyde, edited and introduced by Michele Leggott (Auckland UP, 2003)
Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975, edited by Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott (Auckland UP, 2000)
The book of Nadath, by Robin Hyde; introduction and notes by Michele Leggott (Auckland UP, 1999)
Opening the Book : New Essays on New Zealand Writing, Edited by Mark Williams and Michele Leggott (Auckland UP, 1995)
The Victory Hymn, 1935-1995, by Robin Hyde; with an essay by Michele Leggott (Holloway Press, 1995)
Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers (John Hopkins UP, 1989)
'Novels stand outside time, with their narrative structure of beginning, middle and end. They outlast politics, which are by nature ephemeral, swift and changeable and can quickly become invisible, detectable only to the skilled eye. ' - Fiona Farrell