Landfall 211
'borderline'

Edited by Tze Ming Mok

'It is a flood, it is a flood.' - Rt. Hon. Winston Peters.

The abandoned Landfall citadel has been beseiged and looted by marauding barbarians. They don't look right. They don't talk right. They climbed in through the windows. Now the silverware is bent, the hinges are missing, the lips cross-stitched, and all the early Madonna has been re-covered.

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.

Contents

Poetry

Tusiata Avia, Jacob Edmond, Michael Harlow, Amy Howden-Chapman, Jessica LeBas, Yang Lian, Vincent O'Sullivan, Anna Smaill, Marty Smith, Chris Tse, Nick Twemlow, Ouyang Yu

Fiction

Tim Corballis, Debra Daley, Megan Dunn, Jo Randerson, Carl Shuker, Chad Taylor

Essays/Memoirs

Steve Braunias, Charlotte Craw, Paula Morris, Robert Sullivan, Jocelyn 'Tui' Wilson, Stephen Zepke, Ahmed Zaoui

The Landfall Review

Jon Bywater, Katherine Liddy, Richard Reeve, Ouyang Yu, Ian Wedde, Tim Wong Art: Shigeyuki Kihara, Kah Bee Chow, Liyen Chong Cover: Shigeyuki Kihara

About the Editor

According to the classification standards of the People's Republic of China Tze Ming Mok has the Chinese reading level of a half-literate peasant. Born in Mt Roskill in 1978, she describes herself as an "ethnic Chinese Aucklander', part of a migrant family 'from a bewildering array of East and Southeast Asian countries'. Her poetry, fiction, reviews and political polemic have been published in a variety of publications including Landfall, the Listener, JAAM, Sport, Trout, Meanjin, Best New Zealand Poems 2004, Best New Zealand Fiction Volume 2 (Random, 2005), Craccum and Migrant News. Other writing is listed on her blog website, www.publicaddress.net. Mok, who has an MA in Political Studies from Auckland University, was the winner of the 2004 Landfall Essay Prize, the 2005 recipient of the Todd Writer's Bursary, and formerly half of short-lived riot grrl recording project Yellow Peril. She has worked as a Refugee Status Officer, refugee legal advocate, and Human Rights Commission staffer.

Publication Details

Literature/Art/Film/Photography
paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 200 pp approx, ISBN 1 877372 90 0, $29.95
Includes colour illustrations
Release: May 2006