Face to the Sky
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Face to the Sky
By (Author) Michele Leggott
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press
13th April 2023
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
821.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
92
Width 165mm, Height 230mm
Description
A new collection by award-winning poet Michele Leggott.
Author Bio
Face to the Sky is Michele Leggotts eleventh poetry collection. Her selected poems, Mezzaluna, was co-published in 2020 by Wesleyan and Auckland University Presses. Earlier titles include Vanishing Points (2017) and Heartland (2014), both from Auckland University Press. She is working on a study of archival poetics, provisionally titled Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris. Michele Leggott co-founded the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) with fellow poet and librarian Brian Flaherty in 2001. She was the New Zealand Poet Laureate 20072009 and received the Prime Ministers Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
