Landing Press

21/07/2025

Celebrate generations of poems (with scones) at Paekakariki, Sunday 3 August, 3.30pm!

13/06/2025

Congratulations to wonderful Landing Press supporter Mikaela Nyman on the publication of her new book. She's here with Rob Hack, also a great Landing Press writer.

29/05/2025

Last Call!!!
If you have poems about food, we want to hear them. Submissions close 31 May.

26/05/2025

08/05/2025

Congratulations to Mikaela Nyman, on the publication of her poetry collection, the Anatomy of Sand. It's described as "an expansive collection encompassing myths and science, the political and personal, from outer space to the microscopic."
Landing Press is very fortunate to have Mikaela giving such valuable support to our next book.

21/04/2025

Auckland reading! Poetry Live, 13 May.

Eight poets from Now and then read poems from this rich and diverse anthology about generations.

When: 7.30 pm
Where: Cafe 39, 39 Ponsonby Rd

06/04/2025

Submit to 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 living, a shortage of food. Food that can’t be afforded. Foodbanks, social supermarkets, soup kitchens… There’s a long list. Food is both a joyful and a tough theme.

Whether you're an established writer, an in-your-notes-app-midnight-poet or this is your first submission with your first-ever writing, we want to read it. We want your unique eye on this subject of food.

You can send up to 3 poems to [email protected] by Saturday 31 May. Or you can post your poems (including hand-written poems) to Landing Press, 97 Tireti Road, Titahi Bay Porirua 5022.

Check out our website for more information about entry guidelines:

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 living, a shortage of food. Food that c...

04/03/2025

Cuba Press has just launched Te moana o Reo, poems and prose including 40 languages.
Landing Press is well-represented. Vaughan Rapatahana is co-editor, and 19 other Landing press writers feature in the book. Very exciting to see the diversity of Aotearoa celebrated in this way.

25/02/2025

A wonderful evening to celebrate Now and then in New Plymouth. Hosted by Mikaela Nyman, it featured six local writers in the anthology, including Sieni Skelton-Richardson and Hailey Richardson, presenting their poem 'Dancing the siva with my daughter'.

17/02/2025

We're excited to launch our poetry anthology, Now and then, this Wednesday at 5:30 pm in New Plymouth. Come along, we would love to celebrate with you.