• HOME
  • LANDFALL TAURAKA
  • COMPETITIONS
  • ABOUT

The Landfall Tauraka Review

The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Humanity Walked Through the Hothouse

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on Petroglyphs by Craig Foltz, For When Words Fail Us: A small book of changes by Claire Beynon, and anthology (n.) a collection of flowers by Gail Ingram

Filed Under: poetry

Reality Itself Is Blazing and Burning

1 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Tony Beyer on Hotel Theresa by Doc Drumheller; Slender Volumes by Richard von Sturmer; Islands by Brett Cross

Filed Under: poetry

A Translation to Your Heart

1 March 2025 Leave a Comment

Erik Kennedy on undressing in slow motion by Michael Giacon; Peel by Georgie Silk; and the prism and the rose and the late poems by Schaeffer Lemalu

Filed Under: poetry

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

Died and Gone to Methven

1 February 2025 Leave a Comment

James Norcliffe reviews Tarot by Jake Arthur; Slim Volume by James Brown; In the Half Light of a Dying Day: Catullus, 2023 by C.K. Stead

Filed Under: poetry

She Was Driving a Scream into Distance

1 February 2025 Leave a Comment

Siobhan Harvey on The Girls in the Red House are Singing by Tracey Slaughter; In the shape of his hand lay a river by Iona Winter; The End of the Beginning by Jenna Heller

Filed Under: flash fiction, poetry

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

At Home Not Feeling At Home

1 December 2024 Leave a Comment

Peter Simpson on Departures by Dunstan Ward; Slow Fires: New Poems by Leonard Lambert; The Glass Guitar by Peter Olds

Filed Under: poetry

Grief Momentarily Suspended

1 November 2024 Leave a Comment

Genevieve Scanlan on Meantime by Majella Cullinane; Tidelines by Kiri Piahana-Wong; Chew the Bright Hysteria by Rhondda Greig

Filed Under: poetry

Rage and Serenity

1 September 2024 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe, PLASTIC by Stacey Teague and About Now by Richard Reeves

Filed Under: poetry

I Feel My Whakapapa Hum in My Bones

1 September 2024 Leave a Comment

Vaughan Rapatahana on Neither by Liam Jacobson, Birdspeak by Arihia Latham and Hopurangi/Songcatcher by Robert Sullivan

Filed Under: maori and pacific, poetry

I Amount to Something, Yes

1 August 2024 Leave a Comment

Harry Ricketts on Selected Poems by Geoff Cochrane

Filed Under: poetry

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 26
  • Next Page »

Review archive

Reviews by genre

Sign up to receive new reviews

Subscribe via Substack

Otago University Press

Monthly reviews of Aotearoa New Zealand literature. The companion to Landfall Tauraka.

© 2025 Otago University Press Te Whare Tā o Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka
Copyright & Disclaimer | Privacy
Website by Arts Net