Michelle Leber

About Michelle Leber

Michelle Leber is a Melbourne poet. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Poems 2009 (Black Inc), The Age, Meanjin, high school texts, environmental bulletins and on trains. The sequence appearing here is based on Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor (c.2697BC to 2597BC). These are imaginary verse-profiles of Fu Bao, the Yellow Emperor’s mother, and Lei Zu, his first wife. This is the first series from a longer suite.