Mirabile dictu / Michele Leggott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leggott, Michele J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--Women authors.

New Zealand poetry.

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2008 Michele Leggott wrote a poem a week to record her term as the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. In her collection of poems Mirabile Dictu (amazing to say), she relates the wonders of those 12 months, which took her to Matahiwi Marae in Hawke's Bay to receive her brilliant sky-blue, specially carved tokotoko, Te Kikorangi; through a time of mourning for and celebration of former poet laureate Hone Tuwhare; to Florence, across a ?poetic bridge'; and to Wellington ?hand to hand' with four other laureates. With her is Te Kikorangi as guide and companion ? ?almost as good as the blu

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; work for the living; poppies and plane trees; mirabile dictu; te matau / the hook; great readers; te ahi tapu rākau / jacob's fire song; tell your mama; gala apples; taking it seriously; nice feijoas; slow reader; elevador; the liberty of parrots; recombination; the darwin lecture; teatro della limonaia; il mantello / the cloak; rangehoo; nonpareil; te hākari / the feast; tricky attractions; ascensore; passaggiata; primavera; redentore; tessuti; calypso; smoke tree; everywhere instantly; opening the tomb; untitled figure

molly and friendsshore space; la chaloupe / the boat; bad economic news; heart of the rio grande; a civilian widow; vernacular serenade; letter to dulcie jackson; gulielmus igitur; te hāhi / the connexion; their osseous remains; the year of the elephant; language and event; dear stormbird; town and country; family sightings on the mainland; one for murray; grand moonlight excursion and dance; timaru march 30 1901; keep this book clean; reading the world; peri poietikes; wonderful to relate; winter 1928; more like wellington every day; Copyright

Notes:

Poems, some previously published in journals and anthologies.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781775585947

1775585948

9781869406196

1869406192

9781775581246

1775581241

OCLC:

863823826