Landfall 211 : Borderline (Autumn 2006)

Description

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.

Table of 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)