It is always a happy day when the latest issue of Landfall arrives in my mail box.
Editor David Eggleton has pulled together an interesting, diverse and impressive bunch of stuff - poetry (of course),short fiction, non-fiction, art portfolios in colour by environmental artists Maureen Lander and Russell Moses, essays, diary excerpts and reviews.
Very timely are reviews of Patrick Evans' Gifted by Vincent O'Sullivan; Their Eyes Were Shining by Tim Wilson reviewed by C.K.Stead; while Elizabeth Smither reviews The Hut Builder by Lawrence Fearnley.
Two of these titles were announced yesterday in the fiction short-list for the NZ Post Book Awards while the third, Gifted, is a surprise omission in the opinion of many observers.
Also reviewed, by Iain Sharp, is Lynn Jenner's Dear Sweet Harry which he considers "the most exciting local literary review of 2010. It was announced yesterday that it had won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry.
Don't miss this issue.
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