Landfall 248: Spring 2024
Spring 2024
Edited by Lynley Edmeades
Landfall is Aotearoa’s longest-running arts and literary journal. Each volume brims with vital new fiction, art, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews, and biographical and critical essays. Landfall 248: Spring 2024 announces the winner of the 2024 Landfall Essay Competition and the winners of the 2024 Caselberg International Poetry Prize. Landfall 248 also includes essays from Landfall’s 2024 collaborative series with RMIT University’s nonfiction/Lab on the theme of ‘making space’.
2024 collaborative series with RMIT University’s nonfiction/Lab on the theme of ‘making space’.
Books of Mana
180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance
Edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira
Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Māori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. It reveals the central place of over 200 years of print literacy within te ao Māori and vividly conveys how books are understood as taonga tuku iho – treasured items handed down through generations. In this beautifully illustrated collection of essays, some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most renowned Māori thinkers join the editors in a wide-ranging kōrero about the influence and empowerment of Māori writing.
Release date: 13 March 2025
The Intimacy Bus
By Janet Charman
In The Intimacy Bus, award-winning poet Janet Charman reckons with some of life’s heaviest traffic: bereavement, grief, ageing, loneliness, gender, sexual identity, power and inequality. Along the way, the collection gathers up encounters with friends and strangers, and reflections on matters as various as Korean telenovelas, classic films, personal memories, ‘modern life’, real estate, ‘sex treats’, companion animals, a favourite hairdresser, finding joy, a grandmother’s politics and the rapper Psy.
Release date: 27 March 2025