Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris
A luscious tribute to an early New Zealand botanical artist, by Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson.
Michele Leggott
Michele Leggott is a poet and editor with a consuming interest in archives and the poetics of memory. She has published 11 collections of poetry and was the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007–9. Her archival work spans anthologies, critical editions and web projects that address New Zealand and Modernist American poetry. She received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. In 2017 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Michele Leggott. Photo by Mark Fryer.
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