Last week we spoke to Michele Leggott about her experiences with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
What we didn’t get to talk about was the book and research work Leggott has been working on over this time: her just-released book, Face to the Sky, and the 19th-century New Zealand botanical artist Emily Cumming Harris, which research has recently revealed was also a poet.
Harris sheds light on the situation for settler women under military protection in Taranaki .
Face to the Sky is Leggott's eleventh collection of poetry. She's a former New Zealand Poet Laureate, co-founder of the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre, and a recipient of the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry.
Michele Leggott Photo: supplied
