Landfall 221 (May 2011)

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Edited by David Eggleton

• Announces the winner of the Seresin Landfall Residency 2011

• Announces and publishes the winner of the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2011

• Environmental art portfolios by Maureen Lander and Russell Moses

• Back page artwork by John Pule and Gregory O'Brien

Evocative titles in this Landfall, ranging from 'Windfarm at Woodville', to 'didymo', 'Fly-over Country', 'The Poisoned Apple', 'Ministry of Food', 'Beauty' and 'A day of pleasure in Auckland'. Essays: on architecture by Tim Corballis, on pollution in Azerbaijan by New Zealand journalist David Brown, on going nursing by Stephanie de Montalk, on chemical poisoning by Mia Watkins, and the 'Dunedin Sound' by Alastair Galbraith. Stories: about contemporary living, by Albert Wendt and Jennifer Compton. Art: colour portfolios by environmental artists Russell Moses and Maureen Lander, graphic art by Jeffrey Harris, and Back Page artwork by John Pule and Gregory O'Brien. Poems: about the environment and related matters by, amongst others, Brian Turner, Richard Reeve, Vincent O'Sullivan, Christina Conrad, Karen Zelas, Holly Painter, Alice Miller, Joanna Aitchison, Reihana Robinson, Alistair Paterson, Ranui Taiapa, Ouyang Yu, Pat White, Leonard Lambert, Stephanie Christie and Kate McKinstry. The Landfall Review: critical writing by C.K. Stead, Vincent O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Smither, Iain Sharp and more.

Editor

David Eggleton is a performance poet and writer who grew up between Fiji and New Zealand. His many awards include six times Book Reviewer of the Year in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, PEN Best First Book of Poetry in 1987, the Robert Burns Fellowship and, uniquely among New Zealand poets, he was London Time Out's Street Entertainer of the Year in 1985. He has written or contributed to many books on the arts in New Zealand, and has produced several documentaries, CDs and short films. He was appointed editor of Landfall in late 2010.

In-store Date: May 2011 Literature/Art/Culture
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm, pb, 208 pp, 16 in colour 978 1 877578 40 3, $29.95 NZ / 14.50 UK