LRO June reviews 🌟📚 David Eggleton reviews: Tony Fomison: Life of the artist by Mark Forman (Auckland University Press) landfallreview.com/different-vers…

LRO July reviews 🌟 Elizabeth Smither reviews Unreel: A life in review by Diana Wichtel (Penguin Books NZ) landfallreview.com/diana-and-the-…

LRO July reviews 🌟 Nicholas Reid reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave (Massey Uni Press) landfallreview.com/not-us/

LRO July reviews 🌟 Piet Nieuwland reviews Hibiscus Tart by Carin Smeaton (Titus Books), Halfway to Everywhere by Vivienne Ullrich (The Cuba Press), Motherland by Kathy Frantz (Birdboy Press) and The Richard Poems by Simon Sweetman (The Cuba Press) landfallreview.com/young-and-old-…

LRO July reviews 🌟 Michelle Elvy reviews Town by Madeleine Slavick (The Cuba Press) and Ash by Louise Wallace (Te Herenga Waka University Press) landfallreview.com/memory-is-diff…

LRO July reviews 🌟 John Gibb reviews The Royal Free by Carl Shuker (Te Herenga Waka University Press) landfallreview.com/what-we-fear-i…

Landfall Review Online August 🌟 Craig Cliff reviews Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies (Te Herenga Waka University Press). Read here: landfallreview.com/mass-spreader-…

Landfall Review Online August 🌟 Tim Jones reviews Vividwater by Jacqueline Owens (Four Elements Press) Read here: landfallreview.com/the-celestial-…

Landfall Review Online August 🌟 Genevieve Scanlan reviews Makeshift Seasons by Kate Camp (Te Herenga Waka University Press), over under fed by Amy Marguerite (Auckland University Press ) and The Intimacy Bus by Janet Charman (Otago University Press ). Read here: landfallreview.com/shameless-livi…

Landfall Review Online August 🌟 Tony Beyer reviews in the cracks of light by Apirana Taylor (Canterbury University Press), Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan (Auckland University Press ) and The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman (Te Herenga Waka University Press). Read here: landfallreview.com/memory-trying-…

Landfall Review Online August 🌟 Gina Cole reviews Slowing the Sun: Essays by Nadine Hura (Bridget Williams Books). Read here: landfallreview.com/i-run-my-finge…

Landfall Review Online August 🌟 David Eggleton reviews Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand (Potton & Burton). Read here: landfallreview.com/better-than-re…

LRO September 2025 ✨ Helen Watson White reviews Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War by Angela Wanhalla, Sarah Christie, Lachy Paterson, Ross Webb and Erica Newman (Auckland University Press) landfallreview.com/the-price-of-c…

LRO September 2025✨ Siobhan Harvey reviews Black Sugarcane by Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Te Herenga Waka University Press), The Girl Who Sings Islands by Catherine Fitchett (Sudden Valley Press) and Symphony of Queer Errands by Rachel O’Neill (Tender Press) landfallreview.com/sing-when-your…

LRO September 2025 ✨ Erik Kennedy reviews this abattoir is a college by Orchid Tierney (Calamari Archive), Poems in Retrospect by Stephen Oliver (Greywacke Press) and Death Goddess Guide to Self Love by Carin Smeaton (Titus Books) landfallreview.com/workshop-for-k…

LRO September 2025 ✨ Patricia McLean reviews Rita Vegas by Patricia Donovan (Mary Egan Publishing) landfallreview.com/the-severed-le…

LRO September 2025 ✨ Rachel O’Connor reviews Surplus Women by Michelle Duff (Te Herenga Waka University Press) landfallreview.com/setting-a-bad-…

LRO September 🌟📚 Sally Blundell reviews Whaea Blue by Talia Marshall (Te Herenga Waka University Press). This review was originally published in Landfall 249: Autumn 2025. landfallreview.com/riding-on-the-…