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Landfall 229 by Eggleton, David

ISBN: 9781877578908 PUBLISHER: Otago University Press OUP FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 208 PUBLICATION DATE: 1.05.2015 DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 16.5 centimetres 13.8 ounces

DESCRIPTION: Still at the very centre of local culture, New Zealand's liveliest and most important literary magazine returns in 2015 with LANDFALL 229, showcasing the best of our contemporary writing across a breadth of styles and themes. Playwright Dean Parker provides a remarkable memorial for Anzac Day in the form of a fantasia for voices that features some of New Zealand's most iconic cultural figures of the twentieth century. Journalist Adam Dudding writes movingly and powerfully about the death of his father Robin Dudding, journalist and editor of the literary journal Islands. Elizabeth Smither offers a wry, small-town 'love story' of sorts, set in the 1950s. Tina Maketeri provides a brilliant fine-grained essay on personal identity in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand. David Howard delivers a tour de force of rhyming verse in his panoramic poem 'The Ghost of James Williamson, 1814-2014'. Clare Orchard contributes a witty diatribe about the culture of denial. And Wystan Curnow turns in a scabrous, rollicking, chuckling-up-his-sleeve satire on vampires in New Zealand. There's fiction from Katy Soljak, Sandra Arnold and Sean Monaghan; and Emma Neale humorously agonises 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 radic

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