Here you will find out about the latest events Elizabeth has been involved in, any media coverage of her work, and access sneak peaks at her books as they develop. December 6, 2019: Family Instructions Upon Release was number 2 in the week’s biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand…

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Elizabeth (Libby) Kirkby-McLeod is an Auckland author who has had poetry published or forthcoming in takahe, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 and the NZPS 2018 anthology The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation. She was long-listed for the 2008 Six Pack 3 authors anthology and her poem ‘Her Warning Signs’ was Highly Commended in the 2018…

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For information on work published in New Zealand across a range of journals and publications view the news page. Family Instructions Upon Release “… I still don’t own any original words to explain our story, and all that will undo.” Elizabeth’s father took his own life in 2012. Unable to find words of her own…

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Elizabeth reviews for online and print publications including Poetry New Zealand Yearbook and Booksellers NZ.  Once published you can read the reviews here.  

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Elizabeth is proud to produce the New Zealand Society of Authors Oral History Podcast.  Information on each episode is available here. Read her article about the project in the NZ author magazine. For a background to the podcast read this NZ Herald article. Season 2: Season 1:

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