Michele Leggott

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Publications & Biography

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

On-line Works

• Umbilicus Jump (Sport2)
• The August Girl (Sport2)
    
• h o n e y b e e (Blackmail Press)
• ladies mile (Sport 9)
• (from) Circle (Poetry on the Pavement)

• dark torch, learning, how will you know me? (Auckland UP)
• Dove (EPC Buffalo)
• Hesperides (EPC Buffalo)
• Torches (Trout 1)
• snake & jewel (Jacket 3)
• schlange & juwel (nzepc)
• oes & spangs. With Andrew Forsberg (The Pander OS 2.0/nzepc)
• do you see me?; ice (Auckland UP)

• it is a wedding cavalcade, this, poet you are hurt(Auckland UP)
• 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) (Holloway Press)
• bay & moon; hill & sun (FUGACITY 05)
• hello and goodbye (OBAN 06)
• leaving the house (Magdalena Aotearoa)

• work for the living (Otoliths 8)
• taking it seriously (NZPL)
• nice feijoas (BNZP 2009)
• the liberty of parrots, recombination, the Darwin lecture (Trout 15)
• rangehoo; nonpareil; te hākari / the feast (Otoliths 11)
• ascensore; passaggiata; primavera; redentore (Jacket 36)
• shore space (NZPL)
• letter to dulcie jackson (NZPL)
• family sightings on the mainland (NZPL)
• wonderful to relate (NZPL)
• as the car flies; forget about paper; one hundred days (Otoliths 16)
• little eyes (NZPL)
• another matariki song (Seven Stars)

Essays

• Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the Persistence of Record
• Robin Hyde: The Victory Hymn 1935-1995
• Taking of each what is needed: Robin Blaser, Robin Hyde, Blue Irises and a Famous Variable
• Onset of pericentral darkness
• An Egyptian day for the mandarin: The Excursion 1982 / 2001
• Notes for Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde
• from Introduction to Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (Jacket 25)
• The First Life: A Chronology of Lola Ridge’s Australasian Years (BLUFF 06)
• (With Helen Sword) Backwards into the Future: Seven Principles for Educating the Ne(x)t Generation (Innovate) 
• Leaving Luang Prabang: A Tale of Two Travellers (kmko 4)
• From the archive: Alan Brunton's Notebook 1970-1980 (kmko 4)
• peri poietikes / about poetry (kmko 8)
  

About Michele Leggott

• Douglas Barbour, A Short Note on Dinah Hawken and Michele Leggott (NeWest Press)
• Ray Davis, Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers by Michele J Leggott (pseudopodium)
• David Eggleton, Big Pictures (NZ Listener)
• David Eggleton, Leggott’s labyrinth (NZ Listener)
• Michele Hewitson, Poetry’s PR Chick (NZ Herald)
• Philip Mead, Smoking Jacket (Jacket 16)
• Tess Redgrave, Poetry in transmission (Ingenio, Spring 2006)
  

Audio

• Do you see me? From Seeing Voices: NZ Poets Reading (Auckland UP, 1999)
    lo-fi (rm : 465KB, streaming)
    hi-fi (mp3 : 740KB)
• Wild Light. Music byTim Page. UoA (mp3: 2.5MB)
• letter to dulcie jackson. From Michele Leggott /The Laureate Series (Braeburn / Jayrem, 2009)
   lo-fi (windows media/streaming)
   hi-fi (mp3: 4.5MB)

Video

• Talk Talk. Interview with Finlay Macdonald 2008
• Taking it seriously. UoA Autumn Arts Graduation 2008
• Poem Posters to the World, Auckland 2009
• Tuba on Cuba: Poem Posters to the World 2, Wellington 2009
• Laureates at the Library, Wellington 2009 (wmv streaming)
• Poem Posters to the World 3, Dunedin 2009

Links

• Poetry off the Page at the University of Auckland
• LOUNGE Readings at Old Government House, UoA
• 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
• Love, War and Last Things: A Digital Bridge for Florence, July 2008
• Phantom Billstickers Poem Posters 2009
• HOME & AWAY 2010: A Trans Tasman Poetry Symposium. 30-31 March at the University of Auckland; 1-2 September in Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

Gallery

• [Berlin]
• [Durban]
• [Coimbra]
• [Fugacity]
• [Bluff]
• [Translate]
• The liberty of parrots: inside the University of Auckland clock tower, April 2008. Photo: Tim Page.
• Taking it seriously: Autumn Arts Graduation, 1 May 2008. Photo: Godfrey Boehnke.
• Gulielmus igitur: Poetry on the Pavement at the University of Auckland, 3 March 2009. Photo: Tim Page.
• North Shore Young Writers Workshop, Devonport, 5 April 2009. Photo: Martin Cole.
• A Million Poems for Matariki at Stanley Bay Primary School, 11 June 2009. Photo: Maire Vieth.
• Wonderful to relate: pasting poem posters with Phantom Billstickers at Wellington Trawling Seamarket, 22 July 2009. Photo: Jamie Holloway.

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Last updated 9 August, 2010