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Landfall — Back Issues
Edited by David Eggleton
Published November 2011
A very good essay opens this issue, the winner of the Landfall Essay Competition 2011. Then, this being issue 222, we move into drawings, poems, 'letters', and an essay, largely from Christchurch and Lyttelton writers and artists, written since the September and February earthquakes. The section closes with Julia Morison's earthquake artefacts in her art portfolio, Meet Me on the Other Side. Next up is a tribute to Allen Curnow for the centenary of his birth, in which fellow writers remember Curnow as brother, young writer, teacher, scholar, leading poet, and friend. The final section leads off with paintings by Christchurch artist Miranda Parkes, followed by a selection of submitted poetry and short fiction and the announcement of The Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2011. And of course The Landfall Review! A feast of good reading.
Literature/Art/Culture
215 x 165 mm, pb, 208 pp, 16 in colour
ISBN 978 1 877578 41 0, $29.95
Edited by David Eggleton
Published May 2011
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.
Literature/Art/Culture
215 x 165 mm, pb, 208 pp, 16 in colour
ISBN
978 1 877578 40 3, $29.95 NZ
Guest edited by David Eggleton, poetry editor Richard Reeve
Published November 2010
Landfall Open House makes for an exhilarating read. There's new voices, an eclectic range of poetry, a whole bunch of 'first-person' fictions, reviews of dozens of recent New Zealand books, and terrific artwork.
The mailbox (electronic and snail-mail) has delivered some treats for this issue: be charmed by Terence Rissetto's Son of Sam, Francis Cooke's Satisfaction, or Andrew Ross's take on Southland: for playful poetry, try Anna Jackson or Bernard Cadogan; and sit back and savour serious reviews of books by Patricia Grace, Francis Pound, Kerry Popplewell, Judith Dell Panny and Penelope Todd (that's just the Ps). Cilla McQueen presents the winner and a runner-up of the Landfall Essay Competition 2010 and Vincent O'Sullivan announces his pick from the Kathleen Grattan Award entries.
Guest edited by Bill Direen
Published May 2010
New Zealand music has been made with electric guitars, European orchestral instruments, laptops, bones, voices, skin, wood, pvc piping, air, magnetic tape and digital media. Our musicians and composers are many and varied, whether within these shores or travelling the world.
Being both writer and musician, editor Bill Direen is well equipped to look at music and music-making in our culture and has produced a great mix of work in Landfall 219. The musical aspect of poetry – phrasing, timing and the insinuation of meaning during performance – is an aspect that creative writers might respond to. Musical aspects of prose – alliterative and rhythmical or structural devices – may carry meaning quite as much as syntactical ones. There are essays and reviews on a musical theme, as well as writings related to the experience of listening and the role of NZ music and ways of making it in a wider context.
Review Quotes
'... 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
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
Islands
Edited by David Eggleton
Published November 2009
This issue of Landfall, edited by David Eggleton, is bursting at the seams with good things to read. It announces and publishes the winning essays in the Landfall Essay Competition 2009, it announces the winner of New Zealand’s richest poetry prize – the Kathleen Grattan Award 2009, and there is a special feature celebrating the centenary of founding editor Charles Brasch’s birth. Most of the content – which ranges from new poetry through short fiction, commentary, reviews and artworks by Andy Leleisi’uao, Gregory O’Brien and Ben Webb – explores our hybrid culture and how it is expressed by our writers. There are established contributors here, with the issue opening with Robert Sullivan’s ‘Maui’s Alternate Prayer’, and a scattering of newer voices including Leilani Burgoyne and Vaughan Rapatahana. Laurence Simmons’ ‘The Sea of Islands: Rethinking Eurocentrism in the Wake of the Oceanic’ and Jacky Bowring’s ‘Et in Arcadia Ego: Four Meditations on Landscape and Melancholy’ provide substantial reading to reflect on.
Review Quotes
'David Eggleton ...has produced a mix of writers that is immensely satisfying ... [It is a] Landfall issue that pulsates with intellectual, emotional and poetic life. I loved it.'
– Canvas, Weekend Herald; February 27, 2010
Literature/Art/Culture
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 208 pp, colour
ISBN 978 1 877372 97 1, $29.95
Flung: the ex-pat issue
Edited by Paula Morris
Published May 2009
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
Edited by Tim Corballis
Published November 2008
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
Edited by Paul Morris, Mike Grimshaw
Poetry editor Harry Ricketts
Published May 2008
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
Edited by Jack Ross
Published November 2007
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
Published May 2007
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
Published November 2006
'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
Published May 2006
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
Published December 2005
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
Published May 2005
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. For information or to order please contact booksales@otago.ac.nz
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