Landfall 212
The Capital of Nowhere

Edited by Richard Reeve

• Announces Landfall Essay Competition winner and runner-up
• Politically active, serious-minded and highly entertaining writing
• New writers published alongside major contemporary authors and poets

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.

Contributors

Poetry: Angela Andrews, David Eggleton, Michael Hall, Siobhan Harvey, Katherine Liddy, Vivian Hopkirk, David Karena-Holmes, Kay McKenzie-Cooke, Cilla McQueen, James Norcliffe, Sue Reidy, Paul Schimmel, Brian Turner, Robert Sullivan, Sue Wootton

Fiction: Nick Ascroft, Sarah Anderson, Murray Clapstock, Jenny McKenzie, Tina Shaw

Interview: Richard Reeve with Marilynn Webb

Essays/Commentary: Simon During, Patrick Evans, Kapka Kassabova, Anton Oliver, Anna Sanderson, Stephen Turner, Leonard Wilcox

The Landfall Review: Mick Abbott, Peter Entwisle, Stephanie Johnson, Lawrence Jones, Katherine Liddy, Bridie Lonie

Art & Cover: Marilynn Webb

Editor

Born in 1976, Richard Reeve is a Dunedin-based poet, reviewer, editor and spokesperson for the Upland Landscape Protection Society, which is opposing two current large-scale wind-farm proposals in Otago. He is the founding editor of Glottis: New Writing, the author of two books of poetry, Dialectic of Mud (AUP 2001) and The Life and the Dark (AUP 2004), and the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the 2002 Todd Foundation Writer's Bursary.

His work has appeared in publications across the world, including the Best New Zealand Poems series of 2001 and 2004. He has the unusual distinction of having had his first book appear in the Listener's Worst Books of the Year (2001), and his second in the the same publication's Best (2004). His third and fourth books, In Continents and a long poem called Effluvium, are in the pipe-line.

Reeve graduated with a Ph.D. on New Zealand Poetic Reality in 2004.

Publication details

Literature/Art/Culture/Environmentalism
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm, 200 pp approx, 8 in colour
ISBN-10 1 877372 90 0, ISBN-13 978 1 877372, $29.95
Publication Date: November 2006