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To think about utopias is to think about history - as the messy accumulation of partly realised visions of the future, rather than a sequence of events. Traces of these visions - colonial, socialist and economic projects - can be found in our cities and communities, our by-laws, and between the pages of books. Landfall 216 sets out to remind us of them. What settler made landfall without the least thought of utopia, big or small, new society or new life? Have these ideals failed, or do they live on? What price do they come at, and ... read more

The Robert Burns Fellowship is New Zealand's oldest literary fellowship. This book introduces writers who have held the fellowship and their work. It provides a "sampler" of five decades of New Zealand writers and writing.

Since the 1980s and 1990s the small press Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop and the literary magazine JAAM and its offshoot publishing arm, HeadworX, have made a unique and significant contribution to New Zealand writing. This 'special 21st birthday issue' of JAAM offers a retrospective showcase of some of the local and overseas writing that has helped reshape and reinvigorate the local literary scene over the last two decades. In doing so, the issue emphasizes the connection JAAM and the two small presses have made between popular mus... read more

Over the last year New Zealand has been changed by the devastating earthquakes in Canterbury, and because of this the issue opens with a number of pieces by Christchurch writers who “bear testament to the solidarity, bravery, and artistic spirit of the people of that city”. They include a poem by Fiona Farrell about trying to deal with one of the many issues caused by the quakes – a leaking roof. Tusiata Avia’s series of poems about the quake includes the arresting ‘Finding Sepela: 22 February,&... read more

Issue 61, first published August 2007.

Winter 2008,

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Catalyst Volume 5 : October 31, 2006

Sport, a magazine of new writing from New Zealand and elsewhere, is edited and published by Fergus Barrowman. This ISSN covers various issues of Sport.

Poems by Amy Brown, Anna Rugis, Anne Harre, Barbara Strang, Barry Southam, David Gregory, Davide Trame, Dean Ballinger, Elizabeth Smither, Emma Barnes, Eric Dodson, Fionnaigh McKenzie, Garry Forrester, Harvey Molloy, Helen Heath, Helen Lowe, Iain Britton, Janis Freegard, Jennifer Compton, Jenny Powell, Jessica Le Bas, Jo Thorpe, John O'Connor, Keith Lyons, Keith Westwater, Kerry Popplewell, L E Scott, Laurice Gilbert, Mark Pirie, Mary Cresswell, Miriam Barr, Rhian Gallagher, Robert James Berry, Robert McLean, Robin Fry, Sue Reidy, ... read more

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The 2009 edition of Just Another Art Movement. When guest editor Ingrid Horrocks called for submissions she asked particularly for

The Christchurch-based collective's 69th volume. Poetry, fiction, reviews & art. First released April 2010.

An anthology of writings by 78 authors about Canterbury.

New Zealand music has been made with electric guitars, European orchestral instruments, laptops, bones, voices, skin, wood, pvc piping, air, magnetic tape and digital media. For this special Music issue, the editor seeks to demonstrate the essential cultural value of music and ways of making it in New Zealand. The musical aspect of poetry - phrasing, timing and the insinuation of meaning during performance - is an aspect that creative writers might respond to. Musical aspects of prose - alliterative and rhythmical or structural dev... read more

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