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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Hello the Same Feeling

1 February 2026 Leave a Comment

Michelle Elvy reviews No Good by Sophie van Waardenberg; The Venetian Blind Poems by Paula Green; Sick Power Trip by Erik Kennedy

Filed Under: poetry

Time Portraits

1 February 2026 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens reviews Pakiaka by Gabrielle Huria; Dear Alter by Jiaqiao Liu; In the Hollow of the Wave by Nina Mingya Powles

Filed Under: poetry

Longing Is the Most Meaningful Feeling

1 December 2025 Leave a Comment

Harry Ricketts reviews It’s What He Would’ve Wanted by Nick Ascroft; Terrier, Worrier: A poem in five parts by Anna Jackson; and Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews

Filed Under: poetry

It’s What We Make of It That Matters

3 November 2025 Leave a Comment

Pat White reviews The Midnight Plane: New and selected poems by Fiona Kidman; Touch Screen by Philip Armstrong; Tackling the Hens by Mary McCallum

Filed Under: poetry

Workshop for Knitting Slogans of Wellbeing

1 September 2025 Leave a Comment

Erik Kennedy reviews this abattoir is a college by Orchid Tierney; Poems in Retrospect by Stephen Oliver; Death Goddess Guide to Self Love by Carin Smeaton

Filed Under: poetry

Sing When You’re Ready

1 September 2025 Leave a Comment

Siobhan Harvey reviews Black Sugarcane by Nafanua Purcell Kersel; The Girl Who Sings Islands by Catherine Fitchett; Symphony of Queer Errands by Rachel O’Neill

Filed Under: poetry

Memory Trying to Touch the Bottom of the Deep Lake

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

Tony Beyer reviews in the cracks of light by Apirana Taylor; Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan; The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman

Filed Under: fiction, memoir, poetry

Shameless Living

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

Genevieve Scanlan reviews Makeshift Seasons by Kate Camp; over under fed by Amy Maguerite; The Intimacy Bus by Janet Charman

Filed Under: poetry

Roads Lifted, Mountains Moved a Metre

1 July 2025 Leave a Comment

Michelle Elvy reviews Town by Madeleine Slavick; Ash by Louise Wallace

Filed Under: art and photography, creative non-fiction, poetry

Young and Old Marched Shaking their Fists, Singing

1 July 2025 2 Comments

Piet Nieuwland reviews Hibiscus Tart by Carin Smeaton; Halfway to Everywhere by Vivienne Ullrich; Motherland by Kathy Frantz; and The Richard Poems by Simon Sweetman

Filed Under: poetry

Tinkering Under the Bonnets of Poems

1 July 2025 Leave a Comment

Vaughan Rapatahana reviews Tsunami with Mushrooms by Te Āwhina Rangimarie Arahanga; endings by Bruce Bissett; New & Collected Poems & Images by Lindsay Rabbitt; be the rising human by Reihana Robinson

Filed Under: poetry

Villages of Grandmothers

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens on Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray, Manuali’i by Rex Letoa Paget and Spoiled Fruit: Queer poetry from Aotearoa edited by Damien Levi and Amber Esau

Filed Under: maori and pacific, poetry, queer writing

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