Mirabile Dictu

by Michele Leggott

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Twelve months of a laureate: in 2008 Michele Leggott wrote a poem a week to record her term as the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. In her new collection of poems Mirabile Dictu ('mi.rah.buh.lay dik.tu' - Wonderful to relate; 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....Read more
  • ISBN10 1306476356
  • ISBN13 9781306476355
  • Publish Date 1 January 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 4 March 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Auckland University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 161
  • Language English