Landfall 210
'the mouths of beasts'

Edited by Nick Ascroft

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?

Contents

Poetry

Anna Jackson, Emma Neale, Greg O'Brien, Fiona Farrell, Mary Cresswell, Cilla McQueen, James Brown, Anna Livesey, Peter Olds, David Eggleton, Geoff Cochrane, Richard Reeve, Katherine Dolan, Robert James Berry, James McNaughton, Bernadette Hall

Fiction

Ruth Dallas, Janis Freegard.

Essays

Martin Rumsby and John Dolan. An Interview with John Taylor.

The Landfall Review

Jocelyn Harris, Corin Black, James McNaughton, John Dolan, Michael Harlow, Bridie Lonie, Jacob Edmond.

Art

Kushana Bush

About the Editor

Nick Ascroft is one of New Zealand's most exciting young poets, widely published in magazinesand author of the acclaimed 2000 debut From the Author of and Nonsense (2003). He has also been an editor of the Dunedin literary magazine Glottis and in 2003 was a Burns Fellow at Otago University.

Publication details

ISBN 1 877276 89 8, paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 200 pages approx, $29.95         
Release: November 2005