About the Book
New Zealand Aotearoa is located on the map as one point of the Polynesian triangle, a nation characterised first by dual settlement - Polynesian, then European - that has more recently welcomed a global diversity of new migrants and settlers. 'Islands' draws on this hybrid culture, celebrating a heritage of the bicultural and multicultural, with Landfall 218 venturing into ideas of community, the village, self-contained entities and margins moving into mainstreams, the world currents of culture. Also Landfall 218 publishes the winner/s of the Landfall Essay Competition 2009, judged by David Eggleton, and announces the winner of The Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2009, judged by Ian Wedde. Finally, Landfall founding editor Charles Brasch was born in 1909 and a special section celebrates his many contributions to NZ cultural life.
Table of Contents:
Poetry: Nick Ascroft, Serie Barford, Miriam Barr, Leilani Burgoyne, Willa Christie, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Natasha Dennerstein, Janet Frame, Laurice Gilbert, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Anne Kennedy, Jessica Le Bas, Anna Livesey, Mary Macpherson, Larry Matthews, Karlo Mila, Holly Painter, Mark Pirie, Doug Poole, Vaughan Rapatahana, Robert Sullivan, Ian Wedde, Albert Wendt, Tom Weston, Andrew Paul Wood -- Fiction: Raewyn Alexander, Tina Shaw, Alice Tawhai -- Essays/Commentary: Jacky Bowring, Laurence Simmons Celebrating Charles Brasch, Peter Bland, Peter Entwisle, Janet Frame, Gregory O'Brien, Peter Olds, Alan Roddick, Margaret Scott, Sue Wootton -- Landfall Essay Competition 2009: David Eggleton (judge) -- The Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2009: Ian Wedde (judge) -- Artwork: Andy Leleisi'uao, Ben Webb -- The Landfall Review: Peter Entwisle, Henry Feltham, Jolisa Gracewood, Siobhan Harvey, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Emma Neale, Iain Sharp, Elizabeth Smither, Ian Wedde.
About the Author :
David Eggleton is a performance poet and writer. Part Polynesian, he grew up between Fiji and New Zealand. Eggleton's many awards include PEN Best First Book of Poetry, the Robert Burns Fellowship and, uniquely among New Zealand poets, he was London Time Out's Street Entertainer of the Year in 1985. He also writes non-fiction, has produced several documentaries, CDs and short films and has been six-times Book Reviewer of the Year in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
