Michele Leggott

A luscious tribute to an early New Zealand botanical artist, Groundwork is part inspired creative endeavour and part determined detective work. This long overdue book brings to light one of New Zealand's most significant botanical artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Just as Emily Harris's beautiful paintings occupy a liminal space between scientific botanical illustration and art, so...

What is the time of a poem? Or, rather, how many times does it have? We can go travelling in text, aware or not of its constituent parts and their deep, or not, anchorings. We can catch an image here, an echo there, snatches of conversation, drifting fragments from elsewhere. Assemblage, that interesting narrative of contiguities and spaces, is different...