Landfall 228

Edited by David Eggleton

What’s inside

Landfall 228 is an event, an occasion: an arts and literary festival between covers. Offering darting word-play, erudite exploration of culture and literature, and lots of 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. Also included are 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.

What a Landfall! The editor of New Zealand’s liveliest literary and arts magazine has sluiced for gold and come up trumps. Landfall 228 is abuzz with aspirational creativity, showcasing 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.

Published with the assistance of Creative New Zealand