Mad Diva
By Cadence Chung
In Mad Diva, poet Cadence Chung takes us wheeling and diving through a scintillating whirl of ideas, experiences and imagery. Operatic in scale, by turns lush and spare, Mad Diva is a high-wire performance from an extraordinary emerging talent. The gorgeous jostles up against the grotesque. Romance and glamour have equal billing with the blood-streaked and the gritty. In opera houses, art galleries, dive bars, bedrooms; in the purple light of Whitcoulls at dusk and in Wakefield Street at midnight, they keep on aiming for their high Cs, keep on testing the world for meaning, acceptance and love.
Release date: 8 April 2025
Preachers, Pastors, Prophets
The Dominican Friars of Aotearoa New Zealand
Preachers, Pastors, Prophets draws on a rich collection of archival material and oral interviews to tell the story of the Dominican friars of Aotearoa New Zealand. More than the history of a religious organisation, this is the story of a group of dissimilar – often eccentric – individuals who worked in a range of ministries; of the faith that united them as brothers and gave purpose to their mission as preachers; and of their impact on the communities and churches they served in Aotearoa New Zealand. Preachers, Pastors, Prophets is not a sacred history. It’s a human history. Like Grant’s earlier history of the Dominican sisters, Preachers, Pastors, Prophets offers a window into a particular world – one that is fast disappearing.
Release date: 29 April 2025
The Midnight Plane
Selected and new poems
By Fiona Kidman
In The Midnight Plane, Dame Fiona Kidman, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished writers, returns to her first and deepest literary love, poetry. This beautifully curated volume opens with selected work from Kidman’s six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the present day with a body of exciting new poems.
Release date: 22 May 2025
Landfall 249
Autumn 2025
Edited by Lynley Edmeades
For almost 80 years, Landfall has been a dedicated space for writers, artists and reviewers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Landfall 249 features new writing from creatives all over Aotearoa New Zealand, full-colour art portfolios and reviews of the latest books produced in New Zealand. Landfall 249 also announces the winners of the 2025 Landfall Young Writers' Essay Prize.
Release date: 26 May 2025
Touch Screen
By Philip Armstrong
The term "touchscreen" emerged in the 1970s to describe a computer display that doubles as an input device. In Touch Screen, poet Philip Armstrong reexamines this term, exploring the evolving interface between humans and technology through poems that blend personal lyric and myth, asking: "Can you feel it?"
Release date: 12 June 2025
Invisible Intelligence
Why your child might not be failing
By Welby Ings
In Invisible Intelligence, educationalist, filmmaker and best-selling author Welby Ings considers how schools measure intelligence and shows how narrow definitions of literacy and numeracy can lead to bright students being described as ‘behind’ and positioned as problems, when they are not. Ings mixes poignant, humorous and insightful storytelling with current research to explore the ways that some children’s intelligent approaches to problem-solving are dismissed or ignored, with devastating consequences for individuals and society.
Release date: 24 July 2025
Strong Words 4
The best of the Landfall Essay Competition
Selected by Lynley Edmeades
Strong Words 4 continues the tradition of showcasing Aotearoa New Zealand’s best contemporary essays, presenting a diverse collection of thought-provoking, beautifully crafted works, selected from the 2023 and 2024 Landfall Essay Competition entries. These essays explore a wide range of topics, from queer rights and female reproduction to neoliberalism, capitalism, colonisation and environmental destruction. Personal reflections on motherhood, fatherhood, friendship and love sit alongside sharp critiques of the intellectual and property classes.
Release date: 31 July 2025