Landfall (journal)
Cover of first issue, March 1947 | |
| Editor | Lynley Edmeades |
|---|---|
| Former editors | List of former editors
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| Frequency | Biannual |
| Publisher | Otago University Press |
| Founder | Charles Brasch |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Based in | Dunedin |
| Language | English |
| Website | otago |
Landfall Tauraka (formerly Landfall) is New Zealand's oldest extant literary magazine. It is published biannually by Otago University Press. As of 2025, each issue is a paperback volume of about 200 pages. The journal features new fiction and poetry, biographical and critical essays, cultural commentary, and book reviews. Its companion website, The Landfall Tauraka Review, publishes monthly long-form literary reviews.
Landfall was founded and first edited by New Zealand poet Charles Brasch. It was described by Peter Simpson in the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (2006) as "the most important and long-lasting journal in New Zealand's literature". Historian Michael King said that during the twentieth century, "Landfall would more than any other single organ promote New Zealand voices in literature and, at least for the duration of Brasch's editorship (1947–66), publish essays, fiction and poetry of the highest standard".