Michele Leggott

Michele Leggott was the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007-09 and received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. Recent books include Vanishing Points (2017) and Mezzaluna: Selected Poems (2020). A new collection, Face to the Sky, is due from Auckland University Press in April 2023. In 2017 Michele was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Author photo by Tim Page.