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Landfall — Back Issues
FLUNG
Guest edited by Paula Morris
Published May 2009
What’s inside
New Zealand isn’t far-flung, but New Zealanders are: more than half a million of us live in other countries.
Landfall 217 explores the creative work our writers and artists are producing in or about these other places, as well as the ways travelling and living elsewhere informs our work when/if we return home. The issue features new poetry by Nick Ascroft, C.K. Stead, Diana Bridge and Mark Young, fiction by Charlotte Grimshaw, Wes Lee, Owen Marshall, Julian Novitz and Carl Shuker, artwork by Max Gimblett and Francis Upritchard, and reviews by Martin Edmond, Peter Ireland and Philip Matthews, among many others.
Literature/Art/Culture
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 208 pp, colour
ISBN 978 1 877372 96 4, $29.95
Guest edited by Tim Corballis
Published November 2008
What’s Inside
To think about utopias is to think about history – as the messy accumulation of partly realised visions of the future, rather than a sequence of events. Traces of these visions – colonial, socialist and economic projects – can be found in our cities and communities, our by-laws, and between the pages of books. Landfall 216 sets out to remind us of them. What settler made landfall without the least thought of utopia, big or small, new society or new life? Have these ideals failed, or do they live on? What price do they come at, and who ends up paying that price?
This issue will take us to places that might be, or might have been: Seoul and Carterton, the suburbs of Auckland and the cities of East Germany, as well as other places that are not easily located on a map.
Literature/Art/Culture
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 208 pp, illustrated
ISBN 978 1 877372 95 7 , $29.95
Guest edited by Paul Morris, Mike Grimshaw
Poetry editor Harry Ricketts
Published May 2008
What’s Inside
By turns playful and serious, Waiting for Godzone looks at contemporary spirituality in Aoteoroa New Zealand. It features a diverse array of writers responding to 'the big questions': poetry by C.K. Stead, Gregory O'Brien and Diana Bridge, short fiction by Norman Bilbrough and Laura Solomon, essays on 'The South Island Myth', the angel in art, and on Colin McCahon.
Landfall 215 also contains in-depth reviews by Peter Mattheson on Michael King's Illustrated History of New Zealand, Mark Williams on Dan Davin, Cilla McQueen on new collections by C.K. Stead, Charles Spear and Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, and Richard Reeve on the New Zealand Public Intellectual.
Wellington photographer Mary MacPherson is the issue's featured artist, with her portfolio Plant Life.
Literature/Art/Culture
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 200pp, illustrated
ISBN 978 1 877372 94 0, $29.95
Guest edited by Jack Ross
Published November 2007
What’s Inside
After a number of themed issues, Landfall 214 opens up in a general issue, presenting new voices in poetry and fiction alongside more established writers. Prose writing includes Ted Jenner on Malawi, Stephen Turner on cultural plagiarism and the New Zealand dream of home, Bronwyn Lloyd on doppelgänger suicide, and Ouyang Yu on ‘the axis of exiles’.
There are in-depth reviews of new books from a wide range of publishers, by writers from a variety of perspectives. Eight paintings by cover artist Emma Smith make up the first portfolio, while Gabriel White’s photographs of South Korea form the second.
Literature/Art/Culture
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 208 pp, illustrated
ISBN 978 1 877372 93 3, $29.95
Publication date: November 2007
Edited by Jacob Edmond, Gregory O'Brien, Evgeny Pavlov and Ian Wedde
What’s Inside
Landfall 213 picks up from an anthology of New Zealand poets published in Russia in 2005. It features contemporary Russian poets in translation and also includes a wide range of NZ writing on contemporary Russian culture: Natasha Templeton, Stephanie de Montalk and Stuart Young on diverse Russian traffics between New Zealand and Russia; Russia-oriented poems by Tusiata Avia, Wystan Curnow, Anna Jackson, Jan Lauwereyns, and Richard von Sturmer; as well as substantial reviews of recent New Zealand books. And there's an art portfolio of work by the Blue Noses Collective, and back page by Daniel Malone.
Literature/Art/Culture
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 216 pp, illustrated
ISBN 978 1 877372 92
, $29.95
Publication date: 2007
Edited by Richard Reeve
What’s Inside
 'The Capital of Nowhere' reacts to the corporate recolonisation of ostensible 'hinterlands', both in New Zealand and globally.
Iconic printmaker and veteran environmental activist Marilynn Webb speaks her mind about the inertia of much contemporary art in responding to the devastation of the land, Paul Schimmel searches for greatness in a rotting backwater town, Cilla McQueen elegises the shrunken innocence of the Deep South under the cuff of business, Anton Oliver observes a global plague of greed, and Robert Sullivan asks the PM frank questions about her duty to Maori. It's all terrible! Our ancient earth gets hotter, yet the West continues to bludgeon, coax and squeeze the Middle East for oil; everywhere entrepreneurs capitalise on threshhold scenarios for their own pockets. This is the Aotearoa of the corporate wind farm, the megabucks hydroelectic scheme against the mountain and the haka, a land where cultural jingoism treads on sacred purity.
ISBN 978 1 877372, paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 200 pp, $29.95
Publication date: November 2006
Edited by Tze Ming Mok
What’s Inside
 Savvy Auckland ethnoblogger, fiction-writer, poet, essayist and activist Tze Ming Mok edits Landfall 211, which rolls in the cultural muddle of present-day Aotearoa New Zealand. 'Borderline' features a diverse range of contemporary writers: Steve Braunias recounts his father's incarceration as an interned enemy alien on Somes Island, former Algerian MP and refugee Ahmed Zaoui explains why he turned to poetry, and poet Tusiata Avia hunts down desperate immigration officials on the run from the Tongan rugby team. Jacob Edmond and Tze Ming Mok translate work by exiled Chinese poet/former Auckland resident Yang Lian, and Charlotte Craw eats her way towards cultural authenticity.
ISBN 1 877372 90 0, paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 200 pp approx, $29.95
May 2006
Edited by Nick Ascroft
What’s Inside
 In Landfall 210, language humbly falls into line as just another job-lot of animal noises. Poets speak out of the mouths of beasts from Fiona Farrell's eel, through all the monkeys and borzoi and owls of Russia to an MP poet per Richard Reeve. Painter Kushana Bush lays out a domestic bestiary, as John Dolan explains that only in the movie The Big Lebowski has the true squawking, grunting, yauping, verbiage and profanity of human speech been captured for what it is. Guest editor Nick Ascroft goes to the frontlines, interviewing world-renowned linguist John Taylor: is sign language the only recourse?
ISBN 1 877276 89 8, paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 200 pages approx, $29.95
Release: November 2005
 Edited by Justin Paton
What’s Inside
In Landfall 209, New Zealand's best writers trace 'the shape of a year' - 1984. An antidote to big, bland generalisations about 'the eighties', the issue offers idiosyncratic snapshots, detailed histories and bold arguments about a year when, as Murray Edmond puts it in the issue's lead essay, 'an identity crisis, psychological, cultural, social and economic, on a national scale, was fully in evidence.'
ISBN 1 877276 88 X, paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 220 pp approx, $15.00
Release: June 2005
Back issues before Landfall 210 are available at $15.00 incl.gst per copy.
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