A fantastic issue - pushing the bounds of the real -- Announces the recipient of the Seresin Landfall Residency 2012 -- Publishes shortlisted essay from the Landfall Essay Competition 2011. Art by Barry Cleavin, Peter Madden, Sriwhana Spong, Ruth Cleland. From the gothic and the carnivalesque to the speculative and beyond, this issue of Landfall pushes the bounds of the real and delves into worlds just-sideways of ours. We have fiction told from the perspective of a giant squid in Nina Seja's piece 'The Collectors', and a short story by Raewyn Alexander set in an uncanny not-so-distant future where 'reality TV is illegal' and live, unedited 'Life TV' is the only acceptable term. Poems offer diverse perspectives on un-reality, and there's also 'Bad Blood', a story by Anna Smith about the mysterious patupaiarehe - and gnarly feet. Also in this issue are Siobhan Harvey's shortlisted essay from the 2011 Landfall Essay Competition, and new poetry by Elizabeth Smither, Joanna Preston, Holly Painter, Therese Lloyd, Lynley Edmeades, Belinda Diepenheim and more. Vaughan Rapatahana discusses traditional poetry in te reo Maori and Stephen Oliver confesses 'A Nostalgia for Books'. And of course there's the Landfall Review, featuring insightful and in-depth reviews of recent New Zealand books.