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Face to the Sky by Michele Leggott
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
A new collection by award-winning poet Michele Leggott.In her latest collection, Michele Leggott speaks to the art and writings of nineteenth-century New Zealand painter Emily Cumming Harris. Face to the Sky tells stories of love and loss from two woman in the shadow the same mountain, more than a centu ...Show more
Heartland by Michele Leggott
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
I stood in the dark with many others, some of them close enough to touch, some further away. One by one they turned, light fell on faces that were at once strange and familiar, and they began to speak or sing. Soon the riot of their voices was everywhere, the plane of memory tilted at 36,000 feet, fract ...Show more
Mezzaluna: Selected Poems by Michele Leggott
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Thirty years of selected poems by the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. Mezzaluna gathers work from critically acclaimed poet Michele Leggott's nine collections, from Like This? (1988) to Vanishing Points (2017). In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush tex ...Show more
Milk & Honey by Leggott Michele
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂNo brief review can hope to do justice to this dense, intricate and vivid collection. Not to be consumed rapidly like verbal takeaways, but sipped and savoured; soul food, mind food.ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà- NZ Herald Canvas Magazi ...Show more
Mirabile Dictu by Michele Leggott
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Twelve months of a laureate: in 2008 Michele Leggott wrote a poem a week to record her term as the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. In her new collection of poems Mirabile Dictu ('mi.rah.buh.lay dik.tu' - Wonderful to relate; amazing to say), she relates the wonders of those 12 months, which took he ...Show more
Vanishing Points by Michele Leggott
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: New
It's an optical amusement, a punctured surface letting light pour through holes cut out of the picture. Moon, army tents and the windows of houses and St Mary's church glow or flicker with luminance. Between them move women and children as well as soldiers. Steamers, a brig and a schooner ride on the mo ...Show more
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