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Here’s Landing Press’s new project for 2025: an anthology of poems about FOOD! We love the idea of poems about food. There are so many ways to think about food – culture, history, memory, rituals, celebrations, growing, foraging, hunting, fishing … there’s a long list. There’s also, particularly at present with the rising cost of […]
Not so long ago, we conducted a survey on the process of editing poetry for the anthology Now and Then: poems about generations. Inspired by the results, we discussed the subject further in this article picked up by NZ Poetry Shelf: Editing poetry: Is there an imbalance?
On Wednesday 19 February, Mikaela Nyman hosted an evening of readings from Now and then at Poppies Bookshop in New Plymouth. Mikaela is a wonderful supporter of Landing Press, and she was joined by six local writers in the anthology. Among them they represented the diversity of Now and then, and Sieni Skelton-Richardson & Hailey Richardson presented their poem, ‘Dancing […]
On Wednesday 13 November, we launched from our hands to yours: poems by ESOL students at Mana College Porirua. We celebrated this book with some of the student writers in the collection and their families, and with staff from Mana College. Some students read their poems, and they launched it in style with poppers! We’re all very […]
We launched our new anthology, Now and then, with poets both young and old and everyone in-between at the historic Public Trust hall, Wellington on the 3rd of November. Afterwards, we all celebrated with an afternoon tea of a wonderful variety of scones baked by our volunteers.
Explore time travel and poetry! Write poems that include 4 words from a list, then produce your poem using materials from the eras – typewriter, quill pen, charcoal, recording – your choice! Then see your work displayed in the Newtown Library. Everyone who writes a poem gets a prize, and all writers go into a […]
Our new anthology, on the theme of generations, has been a long time coming. After a book every year for seven years, we’ve given ourselves extra time on this. We’re proud of the result. And it’s gone off to the publishing team at the Whitireia Publishing Programme. Many writers sent us ideas for the title, […]
Thanks to a small printing error, we had 300 free copies of our last book, Roll & Break, to give as class sets to schools. Seven schools around the country, and a number of individuals, were very happy to receive the benefits of this printing error! Students from James Cook High School in Gisborne and […]
In 2023 we’ve run 11 workshops, where a wide range of people wrote poems on the theme of generations. We had great help with this – from Mikaela Nyman in New Plymouth, Dominic Hoey in Auckland, Bee Trudgeon at the Porirua Library, Riah Tahana-Dawson at the Wellington Newtown Library – and we had workshops in […]
It’s been a busy month. As well as the launch in Wellington, we’ve celebrated the publication of Roll & Break at both Paekakariki and at Kaizen Cafe in Porirua. Here at Kaizen, Rebecca Chester (from the Landing Press team) reads ‘Million Dollar View’, a poem which looks back to our last book, More than a […]