Landfall 228 is an event: an arts and literary festival
between covers. Offering imaginative and critical writing from notable
practitioners and new talent, Landfall
228 contains a carousel of exuberant poets, a bureau of unpredictable
essayists, a cavalcade of zestful artists, a cluster of fresh and risky prose
writers. This issue also features the top four essays from the Landfall 2014
Essay Competition, for which 40 entries were received.
The
artworks include a photo-essay on a memorial installation made by sculptor Mary
McFarlane; a suite of portraits by New York-based New Zealand artist Lorene
Taurerewa; graphic art by Denise Copland; and black-and-white graphic art by
printmaker Barry Cleavin.
There are
short stories or prose fiction from Sheridan Keith, Kate Davis, Russell Haley,
Andrew Paul Wood and others, as well as a chapter from a forthcoming novel,
‘The Ice Slide’, by Sandra Arnold, winner of the Landfall Seresin Residency
2014.
There’s a
prose childhood memoir by Michele Leggott; a Melbourne memoir by David Herkt;
and a poetic tribute to West Coast writer Peter Hooper by Jeffrey Paparoa
Holman.
The
Landfall Review section includes a major essay by C.K. Stead on Kevin Ireland’s
poetry, and Damian Skinner writes about Cliff
Whiting: He Toi Nuku, He Toi Rangi, while Gerry Te Kapa Coates reviews
Angela Wanhalla’s award-winning book Matters
of the Heart: A history of interracial marriage in New Zealand. Simone
Oettli comments on Fiona Kidman’s novel The
Infinite Air.
And of
course there is an eclectic and wide-ranging mix of brand-new poetry by
Elizabeth Smither, Bernadette Hall, Anna Jackson, Rhian Gallagher, Sue Wootton,
Alan Roddick, Reihana Robinson, Jen Crawford, Maris O’Rourke, Richard Reeve,
Nick Ascroft, Joanna Preston and Carolyn McCurdie – as well as poems from
emerging poets Kirsti Whalen, Carin Smeaton, Rata Gordon, Lynley Edmeades, Liz
Breslin, Morgan Bach, Marissa Cappetta, Doc Drumheller – and more, much more.
Landfall 228 showcases the nation’s best: from the uncanny
and the unhomely to the affectionate and the disaffectionate; from the cultural
physics of what where how to the pathos and wonder of past present and future …
Landfall Aotearoa New Zealand: the narrative journey continues.
Landfall 228
Edited
by David Eggleton
ISBN
978-1-877578-47-2, $30
www.otago.ac.nz/press
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