Landfall 234: Spring 2017: 2017

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Featured Artists: James Robinson, Jenna Packer, Andrew McLeod. Writers: Alie Benge, Marianne Bevan, Tony Beyer, Owen Bullock, Kate Camp, Medb Charleton, H.E. Crampton, John Dennison, Doc Drumheller, Breton Dukes, Lynley Edmeades, Ben Egerton, Riemke Ensing, Sisilia Eteuati, Laurence Fearnley, Rachel J. Fenton, Rhian Gallagher, Rene Harrison, Ingrid Horrocks, Mark Anthony Houlahan, Stephanie Johnson, Judith Lofey, Owen Marshall, Samantha Montgomerie, Claire Orchard, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Brian Potiki, Joanna Preston, Vaughan Rapatahana, Rebecca Reader, Sue Reidy, James Robinson, Ali Shakir, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Sarah Shirley, Carin Smeaton, Ruby Solly, Michael Steven, Mua Strickson-Pua, Tayi Tibble, Albert Wendt, Sue Wootton, Phoebe Wright. Reviews: Landfall Review Online books recently reviewed, Martin Edmond on Charles Brasch: Journals 19451957 ed. Peter Simpson, Iain Sharp on Selected Poems by Ian Wedde, Jenny Powell on Die Bibel and Collected Poems 19812016 by Michael OLeary, Johanna Emeney on Te Arrow that Missed by Ted Jenner and Te Ones Who Keep Quiet by David Howard, Denis Harold on Te New Animals by Pip Adams, Charlotte Graham on The Suicide Club by Sarah Quigley, Katie Pickles on The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 18002000 by Vincent OMalley, Edmund Bohan on The World, the Flesh and the Devil: The life and opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes 17651838 by Andrew Sharp. Awards and competitions: Results of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2017 and judges report by Bill Manhire, results of the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize and judges report by Riemke Ensing, results and winning essays from Landfall Essay Competition 2017, and judges report by David Eggleton

David Eggleton is a prolific poet, writer and critic. His most recent collection The Conch Trumpet (OUP, 2015) won the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry, and he received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in poetry in October 2016. His other awards include six times Book Reviewer of the Year in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, PEN Best First Book of Poetry in 1987 and the Robert Burns Fellowship.

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