Standing Room Only

Former Poet Laureate Michele Leggott looks back


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Selecting from more than 30 years of poetry to fit into one book was the challenge New Zealand's first Poet Laureate set herself. Michele Leggott's called the collection Mezzaluna. It starts with selections from her 1988 collection Like This? through to her latest one Vanishing Points in 2017. Michele Leggott tells Lynn Freeman she enjoyed reacquainting herself with her poems, especially the early ones, as she made her selections.
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Standing Room OnlyBy RNZ