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The making of New Zealand literature

Landfall magazine

Landfall magazine

Landfall 9, March 1949.

Charles Brasch's Landfall

Founded in 1947, the quarterly Landfall soon became New Zealand's foremost literary magazine. Otago poet Charles Brasch was the magazine's exacting first editor, and Landfall's high literary standards reflected his ambition to stimulate a vigorous and critical cultural life in New Zealand.