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Landfall 219
On Music
Guest edited by Bill Direen
Key Points
• Multiple voices discuss the many strands of musicmaking in New Zealand
• Announces the winner of the Seresin Landfall Residency 2010
• Photographic portfolios by Stuart Page and Marcel Tromp
What's Inside
May, of course, is New Zealand Music Month and in this issue of Landfall writer and musician Bill Direen has brought
together an amazing array of approaches to our music. David Eggleton has a poem about the ‘Barnes Dance’ of the traffic
lights, Stuart Page contributes band photos from the ’70s, Keri Hulme reflects on music in poetry, William Dart writes about composers Lilburn and Harris, and Kiran Dass examines ‘The main problem with music writing in New Zealand …’
A lot of people are waiting for this issue, which will be published 20 May. This issue also announces the 2010 winner of the Seresin Landfall Residency.
Contents
Poets on Music Peter Olds, Michael Harlow, Keri Hulme, David Karena-Holmes, Bryony Jagger Poetry: Pip Adam, Tusiata Avia, Emma Barnes, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Mary Anne Bourke, Owen Bullock, Peter Dane, David Eggleton, Mariana Isara, Bryony Jagger, Harold Jones, Eli Kent, Helen Lehndorf, Stephen Oliver, Peter Olds, Richard Reeve, Peter Stapleton Michael Steven Fiction/Auto-Fiction Scott Hamilton, George Henderson, Siobhan Harvey, Ted Jenner, Grant McDonagh, Antony Milton, K.M. Ross, Jim Wilson Essays/Commentary William Dart, Kiran Dass, Adam Gifford, Kate Kennedy, Dugal McKinnon, Robin Maconie, Martin Rumsby, Bruce Russell, Andrew Schmidt Photographs Stuart Page, Marcel Tromp The Landfall Review Jon Bywater, Jacques Coulardeau, Brett Cross, Nicola Cummins, Scott Hamilton, Michael Harlow, Jack Ross, Damian Skinner, Marcel Tromp Cover Cilla McQueen Back page Michael Morley
Editor
Bill Direen grew up in the sixties surrounded by music and poetry of all sorts, classical, cultural, liturgical, radio pop and rock. He studied electronic music under Douglas Lilburn before concentrating on literature (M.A. Hons, Canterbury University) and developing an independent career as writer and musician.
Reviews
'... the success of the issue is not just the range of ideas, topics and musicians covered, it is the various media used to opine and muse on these things ... The bulk of the writing and sharply delivered photography is a joy, to obviously be dipped into as the mood strikes. There is beauty, profanity, humour and the plain peculiar, all celebrating this nation’s take on making music so far removed from the usual and major cultural influences...If you can’t find anything here to enjoy, music fan or not, well, I’d be very surprised'
- Canvas Magazine, Weekend Herald; July 3 2010
'A superb short story, Maxine, by Siobhan Harvey is worth the price alone, but there's a lot of other excellent reading here, too.' – Bryan James, Otago Daily Times, 22.5.10
Publication details
Literature/Art/Culture
215 x 165 mm, pb, 208 pp, 16 in colour
ISBN 978 1 877372 98 8, $29.95
In stores
May 2010
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