Landfall 229 Aotearoa New Zealand Arts and Letters

Still at the very center of local culture, New Zealand’s liveliest and most important literary magazine returns in 2015 with Landfall 229, showcasing the best of the country’s contemporary writing across a breadth of styles and themes. There’s fiction from Katy Soljak, Sandra Arnold, and Sean Monaghan; Emma Neale humorously agonizes about how to begin a short story; Owen Marshall describes a not-so-perfect book launch; Nick Ascroft offers darting, somersaulting word-play in a British multicultural supermarket; and Louise Wallace visits Arizona. There’s much more of course, including Landfall’s trademark mix of authoritative and telling reviews by some of New Zealand’s most discerning critical voices, as well as a 16-page art portfolio. In short, this polished new issue proves Landfall a vital promontory in the national cultural landscape: a richly illustrated liminal space for subliminal writing.

David Eggleton is a performance poet and a writer whose many awards include six-time Book Reviewer of the Year at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, the PEN Best First Book of Poetry, the Robert Burns Fellowship, and, uniquely among New Zealand poets, London TimeOut’s 1985 Street Entertainer of the Year. He is the author of Time of the Icebergs, The Conch Trumpet, and the editor of the prestigious New Zealand literary journal Landfall.