Background
She was born in Stratford, New Zealand, and received her secondary education at New Plymouth Girls" High School, before attending the University of Canterbury where she completed an Master of Arts in English in 1979.
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Michele Leggott
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She then moved to Canada to do a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
Career
Her dissertation was on the American poet Louis Zukofsky and was published in America as Reading Zukovsky’s "80 Flowers" (1989). Leggott began publishing her poetry around 1980. She published Sound Pitch Considered Forms with two Canadian poets in 1984.
In 1985 she returned to New Zealand and took up a lectureship at the University of Auckland.
She produced her first book of poems, Like This?, in 1988, winning the International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association First Book of Poetry award. Her work has appeared in the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2002 and 2005.
She was awarded MNZM in the 2009 New Year Honours, for services to poetry.
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