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Landfall 209
'1984'
 Edited by Justin Paton
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.'
Edmond draws union politics, radical theatre and the 'Mervyn Thompson affair' into his rich account of 'The Terror and Pity of 1984'. Tim Corballis wonders what we've overlooked in Orwell's out-of-date but up-to-the-minute novel, 1984. Tim Wilson, Greg O'Brien, Annie Goldson and Megan Dunn offer vivid thumbnail memoirs of their '84s. And Geoff Heath reveals the ghoulishness behind the era's gloss, in a colour portfolio of new photographs.
Also not to be missed are Damien Wilkins's essay about what writers put on their walls, andfresh fiction by Sarah Quigley and Vincent O'Sullivan. And there's a big menu of passionate and polemical reviewing: Wystan Curnow on the state of 'creative writing'; Martin Edmond on Graham Billing; Laurence Simmons on In My Father's Den; Jenni Quilter on Douglas Wright; Geoff Park on Antarctica and its writers; and Janet Bayly's major discussion of the new Ans Westra book.
Contents
Photography
Geoff Heath, Ans Westra
Fiction
Megan Dunn, Vincent O'Sullivan, Sarah Quigley
Poetry
Kate Camp, David Eggleton, David Howard, Anna Jackson, Mary Macpherson, Robert Sullivan
Essays
Tim Corballis, Murray Edmond, Patrick Evans, Anna Sanderson, Damien Wilkins
My '84
Blair French, Annie Goldso,n John Kinsella, Gregory O'Brien, Tim Wilson, Caren Wilton
The Landfall Review
Janet Bayly, Wystan Curnow, Martin Edmond, Michael Findlay, Tony Green, Howard McNaughton, Geoff Park, Jenni Quilte,r Iain Sharp, Laurence Simmons, Anna Smith, Philip Temple
About the Editor
Justin Paton is curator, contemporary art, at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. He is widely published as an art critic and is the editor of Anne Noble: States of Grace (2001), amongst other publications.
Publication details
ISBN 1 877276 88 X, paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 220 pp approx, $29.95
Release: June 2005
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