Landfall
230 is a strongly multicultural issue, reflecting
the diversity and energy of contemporary New Zealand writing, with
contributions by, among others, writers of Mexican, Samoan, Rotuman, Chinese,
Irish and Indian backgrounds.
A significant series of just-completed
small oil paintings by Jeffrey Harris make up the first stunning art portfolio
in this issue, followed by a series of 2015 paintings by Emily Karaka.
Featuring new poems by Riemke Ensing,
Michael Harlow, Fiona Kidman, Cilla McQueen, Robert Sullivan, Peter Olds,
Bernadette Hall, Airini Beautrais, Olivia Macassey, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Carolyn
McCurdie, Hannah Mettner, Joanna Preston and Rogelio Guedea (translated by
Roger Hickin) — Landfall 230
demonstrates the vitality and range of current poetic practice in New Zealand.
The Landfall Review includes, among other
reviews, William Dart’s commentary on a recently published collection of
writings by composer Douglas Lilburn; Peter Simpson’s review of Charles Brasch: Selected Poems; David
Herkt writing about novelist James Courage; and Paul Moon’s review of Tony
Ballantyne’s Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries,
Māori and the question of the body.
Emma Neale, judge of the 2015 Kathleen
Grattan Poetry Award, takes us through the difficult process of choosing a
winner; and there is a showcase selection of the four best essays from the 2015
Landfall Essay Competition – eloquent, passionate, exhilarating non-fiction
delivered by Tracey Slaughter, Philip Braithwaite, Louise Wallace and Therese
Lloyd.
Celebrating the power of the literary
imagination with inside stories and true confessions, short fictions and
thoughtful critiques, Landfall 230 is
testament to the rich variety and dynamism of the current state of New Zealand
culture.
Landfall 230
Edited
by David Eggleton
Release
Date: November 2015
ISBN
978-1-877578-91-5, $30
www.otago.ac.nz/press
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