Michele Leggott

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Publications & Biography

• NZ Literature File at AU
• NZ Book Council Writer Files
• EPC Buffalo Home Page Library
• Salt Publishing Contemporary Writers
• NZ Poet Laureate blog

On-line Works

• Umbilicus Jump (Sport2/NZETC)
• The August Girl (Sport2/NZETC)
• Tigers (Sport 5/NZETC)
    
• h o n e y b e e (BMP/NZ Poets On-line)
• ladies mile (Sport 9/NZETC)
• Extract from Circle (nzepc/Poetry on the Pavement)

• dark torch, learning, how will you know me? (AUP/As Far As I Can See)
• Dove (EPC Buffalo)
• Hesperides (EPC Buffalo)
• Torches (Trout 1)
• snake & jewel (Jacket 3)
• schlange & juwel (nzepc)
• oes & spangs (The Pander OS 2.0)
• do you see me? ice (AUP/Seeing Voices CD)

• There is a poem, it is a wedding cavalcade, this, poet you are hurt (AUP/Milk & Honey)
• so far (Trout 10)
• milk and honey taken far far away (i) (Jacket 16)
• milk and honey taken far far away (ii) (Jacket 16)
• angels and oracles (seeing voices 2)
• we are one, we are two we are everyone (two three (BNZP 2002)
• dulect (BNZP 2005)
• salto, salto, where are your shoes? (Trout 12)

• Journey to Portugal (Jacket 27)
• bay & moon, hill & sun (nzepc/FUGACITY 05)
• hello and goodbye (nzepc/OBAN 06)
• Leaving the house (Magdalena Aotearoa)
• the liberty of parrots, recombination, the Darwin lecture(Trout 15)
• rangehoo; nonpareil; te hākari / the feast (Otoliths 11, Spring 2008)
• ascensore; passaggiata; primavera; redentore. (Jacket 36, Dec 2008)
• another matariki song (nzepc/Seven Stars)

Essays

• Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the Persistence of Record (nzepc/Opening the Book)
• Robin Hyde: The Victory Hymn 1935-1995 (nzepc/Holloway)
• Taking of each what is needed: Robin Blaser, Robin Hyde, Blue Irises and a Famous Variable (nzepc/Robin Blaser: The Recovery of the Public World)
• Onset of pericentral darkness (nzepc/boundary 2)
• An Egyptian day for the mandarin: The Excursion 1982 / 2001 (nzepc/brief #28)
• Notes for Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (nzepc/AUP)
• from Introduction to Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (Jacket 25)
• The First Life: A Chronology of Lola Ridge’s Australasian Years (nzepc/Bluff 06)
• (With Helen Sword) Backwards into the Future: Seven Principles for Educating the Ne(x)t Generation (Innovate Jun-Jul 07) 
• Leaving Luang Prabang: A Tale of Two Travellers (kmko #4)
• From the archive: Alan Brunton's Notebook 1970-1980  (kmko #4)
  

About Michele Leggott

• Douglas Barbour, A Short Note on Dinah Hawken and Michele Leggott (nzepc/NeWest Press)
• Ray Davis, Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers by Michele J Leggott (pseudopodium 22 Feb-14 Apr 03)
• David Eggleton, Big Pictures (Listener)
• Philip Mead, Smoking Jacket (Jacket 16)
• Tess Redgrave, Poetry in transmission (Ingenio Spring 06)
  

Audio

• Do you see me? (AUP/Seeing Voices CD)
    lo-fi (rm : 465KB, streaming)
    hi-fi (mp3 : 740KB)
• salto, salto, where are your shoes? (nzepc/3rd Birthday)
• Wild Light (with music byTim Page) (mp3: 2.5MB)
• Talk Talk. Interview with Finlay Macdonald (TVNZ/Youtube)
• letter to dulcie jackson, from Michele Leggott /The Laureate Series (Braeburn / Jayrem, 2009)
   lo-fi (windows media/streaming)
   hi-fi (mp3: 4.5MB)

Video

• Laureates at the Library (wmv streaming)
  

Links

• English 347 Poetry off the Page (U Auckland)
• Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin 14-24 June 2001
• 6th Poetry Africa. International Festival of Poets, Durban 29 April-4 May 2002
• V International Meeting of Poets in Coimbra, 27-30 May 2004
• 3rd Birthday: Celebrations and a symposium for nzepc at the Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, 16-17 July 2004
• FUGACITY 05: A Poetry Symposium at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 21-23 April 2005
• BLUFF 06: A Poetry Symposium in Southland, 21-24 April 2006
• Journey to Portugal (Holloway Press)

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Last updated 28 November, 2009