For this issue of ENNZ, we are proud to showcase the work of Otago poet Richard Reeve, in response to the windfarm issue, attitudes to energy consumption and the landscape….
Against the Wind
Julian Kuzma Many New Zealanders will be aware of the debate around two proposals for windfarms in the Dunedin-Otago area, on the spectacularly beautiful, but ecologically fragile Lammermoor and Lammerlaw…
Review: Landscape/Community
REVIEW: Tony Ballantyne and Judith A.Bennett (eds), Landscape/Community: Perspectives from New Zealand History. University of Otago Press, 2005. Julian Kuzma Landscape/Community: Perspectives from New Zealand History is a collection of…
Review: Geoff Park,Theatre Country
Review: Geoff Park, Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape & Whenua. Victoria University Press, 2006. Julian Kuzma Geoff Park’s latest book Theatre Country has been long awaited in NZ environmental circles,…
Literature and the Environment: Fictions of Nature, Culture, and Landscapes
Teresa Shewry How do literary texts orient their readers towards conflicts over the meanings and uses of water or of butterflies and their rainforests? What might these texts say about…
Editors’ Comment
Tēnā koutou, haere mai. Welcome to ENNZ Issue No.4. In this issue we focus on literature and the environment. Teresa Shewry explores the possibilities of the burgeoning field of environmental…