• Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; The Lord of Work, Nick Ascroft; Cruise Ship Day, Shelley Arlidge; A Line from Bruce Jenner, Mark Young; Beauty, C.K. Stead; A Continent Is Not an Island, Jodie Dalgleish; Koru, Jessie Puru; Clown of the Alps, Liz Breslin; Charms, Claire Orchard; Matilda, Rachael Taylor; Weekends, Brian Turner; This Woman I Met, John Adams; Doubtful Sound, Judy O'Kane; Waharoa, Vaughan Rapatahana; Sounds of Rimutaka, L.E. Scott; Aukati, Antony Millen; Why She Quit Queen at Night, Carin Smeaton; Amores, Erik Kennedy; Art Portfolio, Saskia Leek; Researching Ali`i, Leilani Tamu.

• The Not Quite Full Moon, Allison LiA Baby, Rata Gordon; And we have all been each other's mothers over countless lifetimes, Victoria Broome; Two poems, Siobhan Harvey; The Visit, Ruth Arnison; Every Family, Sam Keenan; Some Things About My Life, Jillian Sullivan; Prayer, Johanna Emeney; In which I defend our father's right to solitude, Heather McQuillan; My Father's Fingers, Doc Drumheller; Fire-walker, Wes Lee; From Benedictine Sonnets, Koenraad Kuiper; Time Trails, Caoimhe McKeogh; Sugar Town, Madeline Reid; The Stone in My Shoe, Stephen Coates; Mondegreen, Helen Vivienne Fletcher.

• A Modern Look at the Seven Deadly Sins, Martha MorsethAnxiety, Joanna Preston; A Night with Strangers, Owen Marshall; From The Stone Women, Christina Stachurski; Gift, Tom Weston; Three 'Willow' Pattern Bowls, Elizabeth Smither; Paekakariki, At, To, From, Piet Nieuwland; Seven Haiku, Bob Orr; ART PORTFOLIO, Saskia Leek; Yes. Good., Janet Charman; Three Variations on 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos Williams, Will Leadbeater; Matters of Accommodation, Vivienne Plumb; Middlemarch, I.K. Paterson-Harkness; Her Mountain Parents Meeting, Elizabeth Welsh.

• A View of the Canterbury Plains, Robert McLeanInward, Mary Macpherson; An Extract from Work in Progress, Bill Direen; Two poems, Ron Riddell; From Skip to the End, Victor Rodger; The Landfall Review; Landfall Review Online: Books recently reviewed; Andrew Dean on The Back of His Head by Patrick Evans; Kirstine Moffat on The Chimes by Anna Smaill; Thom Conroy on Trifecta by Ian Wedde; Jack Ross on R.H.I. by Tim Corballis; David Herkt on The Fixer by John Daniell; Elizabeth Heritage on Credit in the Straight World by Brannavan Gnanalingam; Max Oettli on John Fields Signature Series 1975.

• ContributorsCopyright; Mango-Tu, Ngataiharuru Taepa.

Featured Artists Peter Peryer, Saskia Leek, Ngataiharuru Taepa Writers Nick Ascroft, Shelley Arlidge, Mark Young, C.K. Stead, Jodie Dalgleish, Jessie Puru, Liz Breslin, Claire Orchard, Rachael Taylor, Brian Turner, John Adams, Judy O'Kane, Vaughan Rapatahana, L.E. Scott, Antony Millen, Carin Smeaton, Erik Kennedy, Leilani Tamu, Allison Li, Rata Gordon, and more.
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• Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; Landfall Essay Competition judge's report; An Attachment to China, Diana Bridge; Four Circles, Sarah Bainbridge; The Strangeness of Purple, Elizabeth Smither; Art portfolio, Lorene Taurerewa; So Angry, Nick Ascroft; Dinner with the Dentists, Liz Breslin; The Plot Flaw, Morgan Bach; Things to Do with Lists, Lynley Edmeades; Diane, Unexploded, Anna Jackson; River-time, Simon Thomas; Hut, Carolyn McCurdie; Southerly, Michael Hall; Southern Farmers, Richard Reeve; Extract from Maukatere: Floating mountain, Bernadette Hall; Native Fantasies, Iain Britton.

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• 1 (2012), Barry CleavinPacific Burglars, Tom Weston; And Blessed Be, Reihana Robinson; Marching and Fighting in the Friendly Islands, Scott Hamilton; Mango Archipelago, Jessica LeBas; Rex, Carin Smeaton; White Girl; M?ori World, Semira Davis; Ng? K?hua, Vaughan Rapatahana; Dawe: A Black and White Portrait, Russell Haley; The Design of Butterflies, Kerrin P. Sharpe; Mantle, Jen Crawford; The Rose Garden in Rome, Jennifer Compton; The Skull in the Wall, Marisa Cappetta; Antarctica, Kevin O'Donnell; That Night So Bright, Sheridan Keith; Baggage, Kate Davis.

• Freeze Frame, Claire OrchardChoker, Maris O'Rourke; The Clouded Ruins of a God, Andrew Paul Wood; That Derrida whom I Derided Died, C.K. Stead; O Melbourne, David Herkt; Hunting God, Alice Miller; The News from Poems, Tony Beyer; The Speed of God, Rhian Gallagher; LDV Belt, Alan Roddick; My Father, Dead, Amanda Eason; Jumping Frogs, Doc Drumheller; 14, Rata Gordon; The Toy-maker's Daughter, Joanna Preston; Art portfolio, Mary McFarlane; Self-portrait: Still Life, A Family Portrait, Michele Leggott; From The Ice Slide, Sandra Arnold; Signet, Kirsti Whalen; A Closet Elitist, Jenny Argante.

• Poem for John Pule: The Last Days of Peter Hooper, Jeffrey Paparoa HolmanEpitaph, Sue Wootton; Landfall Review Online: books recently reviewed; Landfall Review ; Poetry: The Hardest Poem is the One You Write About Your Mother, C.K. Stead; Poetry: I Have Nuffink Else to Say, Anna Jackson; Fiction: Kiwi Aviatrix, Simone Oettli; Fiction: Strange and Powerful Music, James Norcliffe; History: Respect and Respectability, Gerry Te Kapa Coates; Art: Art for Connecting People, Damian Skinner; Contributors; Copyright; Landfall Back Page ; In Tatters, Denise Copland.

Offering darting wordplay, 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, and a cluster of fresh and risky prose writers. The artwork includes a photo essay on a Ralph Hotere memorial installation made by sculptor Mary McFarlane; a suite of portraits by New York--based New Zealand artist Lorene Taurerewa; and black-and-white graphic art by printmaker Barry Cleavin. There are short stories or prose fiction from Sheridan Keith, Kate Davis, Russell Haley, Lisa Samuels, Andrew Paul Wood, and others, as well as "The Ice Slide, " a chapter from a forthcoming novel by Sandra Arnold who won the Landfall Seresin Residency 2014. There is a prose childhood memoir by Michele Leggott; a Melbourne memoir by David Herkt; a poetic tribute to West Coast writer Peter Hooper by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman; and essays on the mid-20th-century Auckland writer Maurice Duggan and the late 19th-century Hawke's Bay farmer and pioneer ecologist and writer W. Herbert Guthrie-Smith. The Landfall Review section includes a major essay by C. K. Stead on Kevin Ireland's poetry, and Damian Skinner writes about Cliff Whiting, 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 David Eggleton writes about Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer , by Jill Trevelyan. 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, Piet Nieuwland, Richard Reeve, Nick Ascroft, Jessica Le Bas, Joanna Preston and Carolyn McCurdie-as well as poems from emerging poets Kirsti Whalen, Carin Smeaton, Rata Gordon, Lynley Edmeades, Tulia Thompson, Liz Breslin, Morgan Bach, Marissa Cappetta, Doc Drumheller-and much more.
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• Cover; Half-title; By the Same Author; Title Page; Acknowledgement; Dedication; Table of Contents; Eating oranges; Borrowing a bed; North light and lip pencil; Red lipstick; Removing the subsidy on butter; A donation to the Haemophilia Society; A poem for Roseanne; My mother looking at stars; Stars through tree crowns; Tree breath and human; Apple orchard; Leaf on leaf; An arborist at work; Hearing the approach of rain; A whole day's rain; Mignonette and roses in wind; Gins and umbrellas; Spreading mulch; Gallimaufry; Wave on a speckled sea; Storm in a little bay.

• Standing by the sea with ToniaIrene's spa; After intimate talk; Three women sharing a bowl of crème brûlée; At a gallery; Thomas Chambers, Niagara Falls (Nineteenth Century American), The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Winslow Homer's The New Novel, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts; The Lark Quartet; Singing hymns; Film shoot; A woman on a bus reading a poem; A television image of looters; Cycle race; A man walking in white shoes; Days without a watch; Marker ribbon in a book; The sloth; A stone armadillo; A cast iron miniature stove; Wooden tulips.

• A teacup with floral decorationThe little graveyard; From a ha-ha to a cemetery; Roadside crosses; On the euthanasia of a pet dog; A death and a marriage in one day; The announcement of a pregnancy; Sarah in the second trimester; Last page in a notebook; Copyright.

Gardens, friends, paintings and music inhabit and bring to life this collection of poems.

This companion seeks to offer a comprehensive record of New Zealand writing in an easily accessible form. It contains more than 1500 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements and professional organizations. The range of plot summaries and author entries should prove valuable to students.
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This anthology of New Zealand fiction, drawn from the last 15 years, maps both a literature and a society. Half the writers that emerged during the period covered are still active. Starting with Janet Frame, C.K. Stead and Maurice Gee, the collection goes on to explore the fabular modes of Maori fiction, as demonstrated by Keri Hulme and Witi Ihimaera. It also illustrates the growing strength of women in New Zealand fiction, represented by Sue McCauley, Fiona Kidman and Barbara Anderson, and closes with the nascent voices of the new wave of young writers, such as Damien Wilkins and Emily Perkins.
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Mister Hamilton, John Dickson's first collection in eighteen years, is an appealing, questioning mix of elements. Over a base of South Island bedrock (granite, schist, greywacke), Dickson has peopled this quietly fiery collection with day-to-day working voices and narratives, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes charged with a political consciousness and lyrical intensity. Shot-through with veins of jazz, rock and blues, quizzical religiosity and a streak of the absurd, this book takes a fresh look at the streets and lawns and people of urban and suburban `Pig Island' and offers some thoughtful, wisely pitched and immensely likeable poems. And who is Mister Hamilton? A familiar everyman, a voice of authority, a common presence, an old friend - readers may make up their own minds after spending time in the company of Dickson and his book.
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• Machine generated contents note: reader of hands
• Plainsong
• Spinster
• Two small girls visit ChristChurch Cathedral
• Grace Jones
• short history of rock and roll in Southland
• light above his head
• Doubtful Sound 1
• Doubtful Sound 2
• Dee Street, Invercargill, 1960
• persistence of football results on Bealey Ave
• Veteran of a war one side won
• Two ways of being impatient
• Pensioner
• smile
• Piano time with Monk
• Question
• Memory
• Do you want to replace the existing Austin Seven?
• Too late for real
• Second remembered lesson in resistance
• This is Zepf's poem almost word for word
• trouble with disciples
• glimmering of grand ultimate fist
• Nail
• Her words, her vision mainly
• Something else
• My coat
• Poem for my father
• Gravity
• Roadside near Meremere
• Postcards from Dunedin
• Ringmaster
• Full moon
• vanishing of one hundred billion thoughts without acting
• Sixties relic surveys his lawn
• Armchair
• Report
• sound of cash
• Wasp
• Fourteen lines for Jen
• fingers of Django Reinhardt
• note concerning names.

Mister Hamilton, John Dickson's first collection in eighteen years, is an appealing, questioning mix of elements. Over a base of South Island bedrock (granite, schist, greywacke), Dickson has peopled this quietly fiery collection with day-to-day working voices and narratives, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes charged with a political consciousness and lyrical intensity. Shot-through with veins of jazz, rock and blues, quizzical religiosity and a streak of the absurd, this book takes a fresh look at the streets and lawns and people of urban and suburban `Pig Island' and offers some thoughtful, wisely pitched and immensely likeable poems. And who is Mister Hamilton? A familiar everyman, a voice of authority, a common presence, an old friend - readers may make up their own minds after spending time in the company of Dickson and his book.
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• The yellow buoy
• The silence
• The green enclave.

C. K. Stead has always swum through literature, cultures, surroundings both physical and social, with a deft stroke. Completed in his eightieth year, The Yellow Buoy sees the poet firmly attached to his memories, attuned to his craft and attentive to his world. The book is divided into three parts: `The Yellow Buoy', `The Silence' and `The Green Enclave'. Here, in classic vein, Catullus returns to receive the ONZ, write to friends and `read the world'. Various other literary fellows appear in person, dream or conversation - Allen Curnow and Hugh Kawharu, Frank Sargeson and Barry Humphries, Creeley, Mansfield and Wordsworth. The collection also includes warmly translated versions of poems by Eugenio Montale, Carlo Vita and Philippe Jaccottet; alongside glimpses of fantails and elegies for friends. From sonnets to syllabics, with settings ranging from Croatia and Colombia to Karekare and the Cote d'Azur, these masterly poems urge a reader to stay alert - to pay attention to `the poetic moment / so easily missed, / so quickly lost.'.
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• Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; THE SORROW-TUNE; SEA PRAYERS; THE FAMINE WIND; AD SOROREM; ROSA LUXEMBOURG; INDICTMENT; YVONNE; THE LAST SONG; THE POET; ON A SINNER DEAD; FAITH; THE CALL OF THE BLOOD; UNCERTAINTY; THE LEGEND OF THE CUCKOO; THE SHAG; THE SONG OF THE KINGFISHER; THE WAR OF THE BIRDS; HERALDS; BOOTY; PILGRIMAGE; AUTUMN; TRANSPARENCE; THE TIDES RUN UP THE WAIRAU; TWILIGHT; ST. PETER; JOY; WHEN IN STILL AIR; THE SOLITARY; THE BUSHFELLER; FALL; NEW ZEALAND ART; PLAGIARISM; THE BLACKSMITH'S WIFE; THE MILKER; SONNET; AND AT THE END; CLOUDY BAY; SUNSET.

• The whaling master's songevergreen; sea sounds; titahi bay; the wheat; the runaway; the bushwoman; foundation; song; tua marina; brooding; the country; end of autumn; the taming; dark age; post-war; truth; have no fear!; shades of maro of toulouse; a text in isaias; prophecy; the deer; admission; the violent star; night; mirth; the answer; individual; aspiration; acknowledgment; even the weather; to-day; cold world; the discipline of consequences; world poverty; victory; mediatrix; augury; discipline; contrast; tiger sight; fallow; greece; world woes; the acolyte; the irish renascence.

• THE NECROMANCERTWO TOWNS; ILLUMINATION; Direct your will at mine; WINTER; THE DEAD QUEEN; 'HAD IT BEEN YOU'; THE LAST LOOK; THE PARTING; THE BOASTFUL LOVER; THE LONG WAY ROUND; SO AS BY FIRE; MITIGATION; ANY SINNER; INTRUSION; ABSENCE; SONG; SONGS; HORIZON; CHOICE OF PAIN; FOG; FULFILMENT; TIDE; FOR THE WOMEN; IRONY; ART; NEW AGE; FOSTERAGE; OBSCURITY; The rain now sluices your dark stem; Mysterious as stone or flint; PRIMROSE; FREEDOM; FROST; 'DIT L'ÉCRIVISSE MÈRE ... '; Appendix: Selected Prose; A FEW NEW ZEALAND ROADS; TUA MARINA MEMORIES; ON SIMPLICITY; DEDICATION, THE ARTIST'S DISCIPLINE.

• NEW ZEALAND POETRYNEW ZEALAND IN ITS LITERATURE; KATHERINE MANSFIELD; THE CHARACTER OF MIDDLETON MURRY; PERSONAL POETRY; FAIRBURN'S POEMS; SHAW NEILSON; THE TURNING WHEEL; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES; Copyright.

Eileen Duggan was New Zealand's best known poet while she was writing and publishing. For many years her reputation outside New Zealand exceeded that of any other New Zealand poet. Her poetry shows an undeniable lyric gift and genuine skill in the evocation of atmosphere.