Michele Leggott

MICHELE LEGGOTT has published six books of poetry, including Milk & Honey (2005, 2006) and Journey to Portugal (2007). She is co-editor of Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975 (2000) with Alan Brunton and Murray Edmond, and editor of 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 where Leggott is an Associate Professor of English. She was recently appointed inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007-09. See also www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/ leggott/index.asp.