CONTRIBUTORS
Martin Adams captures scenes via photography and shares them via Unsplash. Professionally, he works on climate change related technologies for decarbonizing building heating and storing energy.
Adam Aitken was born in London and now lives in Sydney where he is a contributing editor to the Poetry Sydney online poetry hub. He spent his early childhood in Thailand and Malaysia. He has been a recipient of the Australia Council Paris Studio Residency, and was Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Hawai’i Manoa. He co-edited the Contemporary Asian Australian Poets anthology (Puncher & Wattmann). His memoir One Hundred Letters Home (Vagabond Press) was published in 2016 and was listed for the ASAL gold medal. Archipelago, his latest collection of poetry, was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Award and the Prime Minister’s Literature Prize in 2018. His latest book Revenants will be published by Giramondo in 2021.
Richard James Allen has published widely in journals, anthologies, and online. Recent books include: More Lies (Interactive Press) and The short story of you and I (UWAP). Well-known as a multi-award-winning filmmaker and choreographer with The Physical TV Company, and as a performer in a range of media and contexts.
Loretta Barnard is an author, arts writer, reviewer and editor. Her poetry has appeared in a number of small anthologies. Her most recent non-fiction book is Kindred Chords: Australian Musical Families (Shooting Star Press, 2020).
John S Batts With a life-long interest in poetry and a career in academe, John has read much English and Canadian verse. For several years after retirement, he served on the Editorial Committee of the Poets Union’ quarterly Five Bells. A number of his own poems have been published in Canada and Australia, but he was pleased to turn his creative hand to crime!
l.e. berry’s poetry is published in Women of Words, Women’s Work, Margaret Olley poems, Eucalypt, Food for Thought, Grevillea & Wonga Vine, Australian Poetry Collaboration, A Slow Combusting Hymn, To End all Wars, Australian Poetry Collaboration, and community anthologies.
Her collection, Channelling Childhood, was published by Ginninderra Press.
Margaret Bradstock has eight published collections of poetry, including The Pomelo Tree (winner of the Wesley Michel Wright Prize) and Barnacle Rock (winner of the Woollahra Festival Award, 2014). Editor of Antipodes (2011) and Caring for Country (2017), Margaret won the Banjo Paterson Poetry Award in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Her latest collection, from Puncher & Wattmann, is Brief Garden (2019).
Colleen Z. Bourke’s most recent and twelfth poetry collection is ‘Sculpting a landscape’, 2019. She has also published two memoirs The Waves Turn and The Human Heart is a Bold Traveller and is co-editor of the anthology The Turning Wave: Poems and Songs of Irish Australia.
Carolyne Bruyn is a published poet, editor/ manuscript appraiser, antiques dealer, cat wrangler, and domestic goddess.What more can she say? Oh, and, as a result of the COVID lockdown, she’s a jigsaw master & family mental health therapist. Daytime television is her specialist subject.
Jacqueline Buswell is a translator from Spanish to English. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from Sydney University. Ginninderra Press published her first book of poems, Song of a Journeywoman, in 2013. Jacqueline established Riverton Press in 2018 and published her second book of poetry, sprinting on quicksand, in 2020. https://www.rivertonpress.com/
John Carey is an ex-teacher of French and Latin and a sometime actor. The latest of his six poetry collections is Dead Cat Bounce ( Puncher & Wattmann 2021).
Anne Casey is a native Irish poet/writer living in Australia. Author of four collections, her work is widely published internationally, ranking in The Irish Times' Most Read. She has won writing awards in Ireland, the UK, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and the USA, most recently American Writers Review 2021.
Beatriz Copello, a poet, fiction writer and playwright has been published in Australia and overseas. Her poetry has appeared in Southerly, Hobo, The Women's Book Review and many other journals and anthologies. She has won various prizes and was a recipient of an Australia Council Grant for Poetry. She has written various books of fiction, and poetry, namely: Women Souls and Shadows (Bemac Publications) Forbidden Steps Under the Wisteria (Abbott Bentley) A call to the Stars (Crown Publishers) Meditations at the Edge of a Dream (Glass House Books).
Luciana Croci is a Newcastle-based poet and writer, whose work is published in Animal Encounters (Catchfire Press 2012), Australian Novascapes, Speculative Fiction Anthology (Invisible Elephant, 2016), Australian Poetry Collaboration, The Blue Nib Literary Magazine (Issue 41) the e-anthology Mediterranean Odyssey. She has a background in languages (Latin, French, Italian, German and Japanese).
Jan Dean, a former visual arts teacher, is an awarded poet living on Awabakal country. Her work is represented in publications including Meanjin, Southerly, The Australian, Hecate, Rabbit Poetry, Spineless Wonders and three Newcastle Poetry Prize anthologies. Her latest collection is Intermittent Angels, (Girls on Key, 2020).
Kristen de Kline (aka Kristen Davis) writes poetry by night and lectures Criminology by day. Their poetry appears in different publications including Backstory, Other Terrain, Pink Cover Zine, Press: 100 Love Letters, Australian Poetry Collaboration, and Project 365+1. Kristen’s debut collection Lawless was published by Girls on Key in 2021.
Donna Edwards is an award winning poet and writer. Her first poetry book, Idle Fragments was published by Ginninderra Press in 2018. Donna’s poems have featured in several anthologies, including; I Protest! Poems of Dissent, Mountain Secrets, Milestones and Frances Platinum Poems. Her poems were also featured in This Breath is Not Mine to Keep a multimedia, sculpture, painting and poetry arts trail.
Charles Freyberg is a Kings Cross poet and performer. His book "Dining at the Edge" is published by Ginninderra Press, and his second book "the Crumbling Mansion", about wildly imaginative eccentrics in Kings Cross and Darlinghurst, has just been released. He performs regularly around Sydney, and his one person show of poems from the Crumbling Mansion will come soon to a venue near you.
Angela Gardner’s verse novel The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette is published this year by Shearsman Books, it is a UK National Poetry Day recommendation for 2021. Recent poems are published in The Yale Review and West Branch USA; The Long Poem and Tears in the Fence, UK; Plumwood Mountain, Southerly, and Cordite, Australia.
Carolyn Gerrish is a Sydney poet. Her work has been widely published in literary journals. She has published five books of poetry. Her 6th collection Collison With the Shadow will be published by Ginninderra Press.
C S Hughes was born in Eora country in the 60s. He grew up in Sydney’s streets, and Tamworth’s stock yards, and Adelaide’s angry hills and vacant beaches, and Sydney’s exhaust stained streets again. He has worked as a spice packer, a bookseller, a junk dealer and a watchmaker, but has mostly found time is beyond repair. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, including, The Book Of Bird & Bear, The Little Book Of Funerals, COVID-22, Sweet Christmas!,The Book Of Whimsies and The Anachronistic Physician. He has had stories and poems published in digital and print magazines. He has edited and published several poetry collections, including The Poetry Of John Ashdown-Hill, From The Ashes and Somnia Blue. He occasionally dabbles in experimental music, horror stories, photography and linocut print making.
Perhaps Australia's most persistent minor poet, Kit Kelen can be easily hunted down at https://thedailykitkelen.blogspot.com/
S. K. Kelen has been writing poems longer than he cares to remember. His most recent book of poems is A Happening in Hades (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020).
Rozanna Lilley is an author and academic. Her essays and poems have been widely published. Her hybrid prose-poetry memoir Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life (UWA Publishing, 2018) was shortlisted for the National Biography Award (2019). A chapbook, The Lady in the Bottle (London: Eyewear), is forthcoming in 2022.
Kate Lumley's poetry and prose has been published in journals Studio, Not Very Quiet, Rochford Street Review, and anthologies including Australian Love Poems 2013; Prayers of a Secular World (2016); To End All Wars ( 2018); Avant la lettre (2020), From the Embers (2020); Australian Poetry Collaboration (2020, 2021); 9,000 miles away (2021).
Christine Lynch Sydney-sider; always enjoyed photography but it used to be expensive. Digital photography has made the photos free, just the equipment expensive! So now I relish the challenges of Flickr groups to experiment and learn new things. Especially love to photograph the wonders of creation around me in the bush, my dogs and Grandkids (no order of preference). Also enjoy using photography in my job as an Early Childhood Teacher.
Teena McCarthy is an established visual artist and emerging poet whose work has been published in Verity La and selected for the 2018 Manly Art Gallery & Museum Ekphrastic Poetry Reading. McCarthy is an Italian/Barkindji woman who is a descendant of The Stolen Generations. Her work documents her family’s displacement and Aboriginal Australian’s loss of Culture and their ‘hidden’ history.
Cecilia Morris has had poetry published in various magazines and books such as Quadrant, Reflections on Melbourne, Australian Award-Winning Poetry. In 2007 she founded a poetry group in Bayside which is still ongoing. She has had 5 anthologies published. Her future aim is to combine the arts of poetry and watercolour painting.
Norm Neill has been a timber-feller, fence-post splitter, shop assistant, money counter, tractor driver, factory worker, taxi driver, psychiatric nurse, door-to-door salesperson, part-time student, full-time student, teacher, historian and museum guide. His poetry has appeared in journals, anthologies and the Sun-Herald newspaper. He has convened a poetry workshop since 2002.
Jenni Nixon Poetry collections include swimming underground Ginninderra Press (2015) café boogie Interactive Press (2004). Widely anthologised, recently in Not Very Quiet, I Protest, Milestones, Musings During a Time of Pandemic, I Can’t Breathe − World anthologies, Kistrech, Kenya. A new collection is on the way.
Mark O’Flynn has published six collections of poems, most recently the chapbook Shared Breath (2017). His fourth novel The Last Days of Ava Langdon was winner of the Voss Literary Prize, 2017 also short listed for the Miles Franklin Award. His latest book is a collection of short stories Dental Tourism, (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020).
Kate O’Neil is a Northern Illawarra writer. She has published a collection of poems for students of ‘Performing Text’ ('Cool Poems' -The Kate O’Neil Reciter. Triple D Books Wagga Wagga 2018) and individual poems and stories have been published in many anthologies and magazines in Australia, New Zealand, UK and US.
Maithri Panagoda was born in Sri Lanka. He is a bilingual poet who writes in Sinhalese and English. He has published two collections of poems and composed lyrics for nearly 100 songs in Sinhalese. Maithri has been working in the legal profession in Australia for the past 40 years.
J.R.Poulter worked in a circus, as a Rare-Books Librarian, and Associate Lecturer, English Expression. J.R. has two novels, and numerous picture books, short stories, poetry, artwork & photography (in, e.g., Basics of Life, 100 Stories for Queensland, Quadrant Book of Poetry 2000-2010, Antipodes, Social Alternatives, ABC Pool. http://www.jenniferrpoulter.weebly.com
Janet Reinhardt is a Sydney poet and printmaker. Her work has appeared in journals and collections throughout Australia and in the United States and the United Kingdom. She is currently working on a collection of Tranter style terminals.
Margaret Owen Ruckert is a former TAFE Science lecturer. She is a prize-winning poet: two books You Deserve Dessert and musefood (an IP Poetry Book of the Year) explore café culture. Sky on Sea, her latest, employs tanka. Margaret is Facilitator of Discovery Writers and convenes a Café Poetry group.
Michele Seminara is a poet and editor from Sydney. She has written two full-length collections, Suburban Fantasy (UWA Publishing, 2021) and Engraft (Island Press, 2016), and two chapbooks, Scar to Scar (co- authored with Robbie Coburn, PressPress, 2016) and HUSH (Blank Rune Press, 2017).
Alex Skovron is the author of seven collections of poetry, a prose novella, and a book of short stories. His work has been translated into a number of languages, and his many public readings include appearances in China, Serbia, India, Ireland, Macedonia and Portugal. He lives in Melbourne.
Angela Stretch is a Sydney based artist, curator, writer and organiser from Christchurch, New Zealand. Her practice uses language and poetry through different media. She is the Creative Director of Poetry Sydney and curates the poetry program at the Brett Whiteley Studio, AGNSW. She produces arts programming on Eastside Radio.
Les Wicks has toured widely and seen publication in over 400 different magazines, anthologies & newspapers across 33 countries in 15 languages. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022). http://leswicks.tripod.com/lw.htm