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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

I Run My Fingers Over the Hem of a T-shirt in Kmart

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

Gina Cole reviews Slowing the Sun: Essays by Nadine Hura

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, environment, essays, maori and pacific

Goodbye, Freddie!

1 December 2024 Leave a Comment

Iain Sharp on Koe: An Aotearoa Ecopoetry anthology edited by Janet Newman and Robert Sullivan

Filed Under: environment, poetry

The Ministry of Resilience

1 August 2024 Leave a Comment

Gail Pittaway on Emergency Weather by Tim Jones

Filed Under: environment, fiction

The Bookish Tramper

1 May 2024 Leave a Comment

Tim Saunders on Bushline: A memoir by Robbie Burton

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, environment, memoir

Tectonic Ruptures, Biblical Raptures and Nuclear Blasts

1 March 2024 2 Comments

Wendy Parkins on End Times by Rebecca Priestley

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, environment, memoir

Sealed-Up Doors, Boarded-Up Buildings

1 November 2023 Leave a Comment

Robert McLean on Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers: My year in the Waikato by Richard von Sturmer

Filed Under: environment, memoir, travelogue

When the Sun is Being a Bastard

1 May 2023 Leave a Comment

Lawrence Patchett on Under a Big Sky: Facing the elements on a New Zealand farm by Tim Saunders

Filed Under: environment, memoir

To Re-remember and Re-learn

1 May 2022 Leave a Comment

Rachel Smith on The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw; Wai Pasifika: Indigenous ways in a changing climate by David Young.

Filed Under: art and photography, environment, memoir, natural history, social sciences

Immersive Learning

1 November 2021 Leave a Comment

Emma Gattey on Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks

Filed Under: environment

Cartography for the Soul

1 May 2021 Leave a Comment

Tim Saunders on Map for the Heart by Jillian Sullivan

Filed Under: environment, memoir, poetry, reviews and essays

Gardens for the People! 

1 May 2021 Leave a Comment

James Beattie on Common Ground by Matt Morris

Filed Under: environment, history, maori and pacific

Memoir as Eco-Farming Manifesto

1 December 2020 Leave a Comment

Janet Newman on This Farming Life by Tim Saunders

Filed Under: environment, memoir

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