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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

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Town and Around

1 February 2014 1 Comment

Georgina McWhirter Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland photography, edited by Chris Corson-Scott and Edward Hanfling (Photoforum, Auckland, 2013), 176 pp, $60. Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland photography is not (always) a book of photos of Auckland, nor is it (often) photography by people living in or hailing from the region. What […]

Filed Under: art and photography

The Blue Drift

1 March 2025 Leave a Comment

Lindsay Rabbitt on Selected Poems by Mike Johnson; Sketches: Poems and drawings by Mike Johnson with artwork by Leila Lees; and Afterworld by Mike Johnson

Filed Under: fiction, poetry

A Space to Operate If You Were a Woman Artist

1 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Folded in the hills by Marilynn Webb

Filed Under: art and photography, maori and pacific

You Saw Nothing

1 July 2024 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon

Filed Under: art and photography, biography, history

Without Us There Is No Memory

1 June 2024 Leave a Comment

Loveday Why on Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens, Calamities! by Jane Arthur and a-wake-(e)nd by Audrey Brown-Pereira

Filed Under: poetry

A Depressive Woman in a Hot Pool

3 April 2024 Leave a Comment

Chris Else on The Waters by Carl Nixon

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

This Is Often Where the Trouble Starts

1 December 2023 1 Comment

Piet Nieuwland on Garments of the Dead: Old and new work by Koenraad Kuiper; Saga by Hannah Mettner; Liveability by Claire Orchard

Filed Under: poetry

We Were the Wall of a Pātaka

1 March 2023 Leave a Comment

Andrew Paul Wood on Te Motunui Epa by Rachel Buchanan

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

‘Disobedience and Bravery’: The Power of Female Image-Making

1 December 2022 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on Gaylene’s Take: Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston; droplet by Sheryl Campbell

Filed Under: art and photography, memoir

The Irreducible Self

1 December 2020 Leave a Comment

Emma Gattey on Specimen by Madison Hamill

Filed Under: gender identity, reviews and essays

Equally Valid Ways of Knowing

1 September 2020 Leave a Comment

Emma Gattey on The Reed Warbler by Ian Wedde

Filed Under: fiction

Of Oceans and Oilfields

1 August 2020 Leave a Comment

Erik Kennedy on Always Song in the Water by Gregory O’Brien, Mary Shelley Makes a Monster by Octavia Cade, A Year of Misreading the Wildcats by Orchid Tierney

Filed Under: poetry

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