Author(s): Tze Ming Mok

Short Stories

Savvy Auckland ethnoblogger, fiction-writer, poet, essayist and activist Tze Ming Mok edits Landfall 211, which rolls in the cultural muddle of present-day Aotearoa New Zealand. 'Borderline' features a diverse range of contemporary writers: Steve Braunias recounts his father's incarceration as an interned enemy alien on Some Island, former Algerian MP and refugee Ahmed Zaoui explains why he turned to poetry, and poet Tusiata Avia hunts down desperate immigration officials on the run from the Tongan rugby team. Jacob Edmond and Tze Ming Mok translate work by exiled Chinese poet/former Auckland resident Yang Lian, and Charlotte Craw eats her way towards cultural authenticity. Contents Poetry Tusiata Avia, Jacob Edmond, Michael Harlow, Amy Howden-Chapman, Jessica LeBas, Yang Lian, Vincent O'Sullivan, Anna Smaill, Marty Smith, Chris Tse, Nick Twemlow, Ouyang Yu Fiction Tim Corballis, Debra Daley, Megan Dunn, Jo Randerson, Carl Shuker, Chad Taylor Essays/Memoirs Steve Braunias, Charlotte Craw, Paula Morris, Robert Sullivan, Jocelyn 'Tui' Wilson, Stephen Zepke, Ahmed Zaoui The Landfall Review Jon Bywater, Katherine Liddy, Richard Reeve, Ouyang Yu, Ian Wedde, Tim Wong Art: Shigeyuki Kihara, Kah Bee Chow, Liyen Chong Cover: Shigeyuki Kihara First published June 2006.