Michele Leggott

ANZL Member

Photo credit: Tim Page

An award-winning poet, academic, essayist and editor, Michele Leggott has published eight 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.

 

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)

Bibliography: Michele Leggot

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Poetry

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)

'One of writing’s greatest magics is to allow us – to use Kiri Piahana-Wong’s phrase – to slide outside the trap of time.' - David Taylor

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