Guest Poetry Editor: Stuart Cooke
Stuart is a Sydney-based poet and critic. He currently lives in southern Chile, where he is conducting research for his PhD.
Matthew Hall is currently working on a thesis on J.H. Prynne and the Cambridge School of Contemporary Poetics. His poetry has most recently been featured in ditch, Jones Av., Misunderstandings Magazine and Science Creative Quarterly. A small book, Brutal Tender Human Animal, is available from Trainwreck Press. He is the founding editor of Extant Press.
David Musgrave founded Puncher & Wattmann, an independent publisher of poetry and literary fiction and non-fiction in 2005. His work has been awarded the Newcastle, Josephine Ulrick, Broadway, Bruce Dawe and Henry Laswon poetry prizes. His first novel and his study of Menippean satire will be published in 2009, as well as a forthcoming volume of poetry gathering his work from the last five years.
Trisha Pender is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Newcastle and has published several essays on early modern women's writing and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (not at the same time). She has recently returned to Australia after 11 years overseas.
Samuel Langer was born in 1983 and then finished a BA in May 2007. From August 2007 to April 2008 he travelled in Canada, the EU and China. He lives in Melbourne and is
concurrently an Ancillary Nursing Assistant at the Alfred Hospital and a Job Seeker. He reads and writes in his spare time.
Rachel Thompson grew up in small-town prairie Canada. Her poetry has appeared in Canadian print journals, including Event, CV2, Quills and Ms. Guided. A series of her nonfiction essays aired on Canada's national broadcaster, CBC Radio. This is her first international publication-her second is forthcoming in the UK's Nthposition. She lives in Vancouver.
Peter O'Mara lives in Hepburn Springs, Victoria and has recently published How to do Words With Things (treeElbow Press) with Patrick Jones. Peter's contribution, subtext, begins with an epigraph from Wittgenstein: 'What is not expressed by a symbol is shown by its application.' That which follows is something like that.
Nicholas Powell's poems have appeared in The Age, The Weekend Australian Review, Five Bells, Harvest, and Cordite. In 2007 a chapbook, of Fallen Myth, was published by The Poets Union as part of a Young Australian Poets Fellowship. He lives in Finland.
Berndt Sellheim is a poet, global adventurer, consumer of fine wines and constructor of adequate martinis. He teaches philosophy, creative writing and cultural theory at UTS and Macquarie Universities, Sydney. He has a PhD in phenomenology and poetics and organises a series of poetry readings at UTS entitled The Loft Readings.
David Prater edits Cordite Poetry Review.
Ian C Smith lives in the Gippsland Lakes region of Victoria. His work has appeared recently in The Dalhousie Review (Can.), Eureka Street, Heat, Meanjin, The Sleepers Almanac, & Westerly. His latest book is Memory like Hunger (Ginninderra).
Michael Farrell left the pastoral confines of Bombala for the urban confines of Canberra in 1985. Since 1990 he has been dwelling in Melbourne. He has not been involved in any substantial husbandry or seed sowing since. His book produce includes: ode ode (Salt, 2002); BREAK ME OUCH (3 Deep, 2006) and a raiders guide (Giramondo, 2008).
Barrie Mulligan is an out Information Technologist from Adelaide. He took up poetry when marooned for a week in Laurenton (NSW) with nothing but crabmeat and one LP, “Hot August Night” (yeah it was a while ago). This submission in part documents his attempts to get even.
Oliver Ackland is a Sydney-based poet, actor and artist. He has appeared in several productions including Jessica, The Proposition, and more recently Emerald Falls. He also appears in the RTA drink driving campaign. These are his first published works.
Joyce Parkes has published in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, newspapers, in print and online, in Australia, the UK, Finland, Canada, Germany and the US. Her poem Propinquity's Premise was published in Overland and anthologised in The Best Australian Poetry, 2005 (UQP). She is grateful that poetry came her way.
Cristina Silaghi is a Christchurch-based artist currently completing her Master of Fine Arts in painting. Her poems extend the idea of collage beyond the edge of the canvas.
Luke Beesley grew up in Brisbane. He's a widely published poet, and a singer/songwriter. His first book of poetry 'Lemon Shark' was runner up in the Anne Elder Award. 'New Archer' is what he's calling himself when he picks up a guitar. He lives in Northcote, Melbourne.
Benjamin Dodds lived in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area of New South Wales until he moved to the big smoke at 21. At 28, he still carries the place with him. Living in Sydney's Inner West, he is a high school English teacher who teaches Italian in a primary school.
Anne Elvey has poems published (or forthcoming) in Eureka Street, Eremos, PAN, Salt Lick, Meanjin, Antipodes and Mascara. In 2008, her work was placed first in the Page Seventeen poetry competition and highly commended in the Max Harris Poetry Award. Her research in ecocriticism and biblical studies is supported by Melbourne College of Divinity and Monash University.
Barbara De Franceschi lives in the outback mining town of Broken Hill. Her work has been published widely in Australia, featured on ABC Radio and has appeared in anthologies and online in Switzerland, USA, New Zealand, UK and Ireland. A second collection of poetry Strands (Island Press) is due for release early next year.
WM Lewis remains at large.
Merrindahl Andrew grew up in Tasmania and lives in Canberra. She recently finished writing a PhD thesis on the Australian women's movement in the 1920s and 1970s. So far, her poems have surfaced in Muse – Canberra's Art Monthly and Muse Apprentice Guild (no relation).
Linda Godfrey is a poet, and novel writer and lives in wollongong. She loves to walk the beach at low tide, every day.
David F Jeffery is a part time office manager and (unpaid) full time writer. He has had poems and short stories published in various local and overseas journals; The Black Rose, Tirra Lirra and Positive Words. He is also a frequent contributor to the Sunday Age letters section. He lives in Geelong.
Ron Pretty's most recent book is Of the Stone (2000). Until he retired in 2007 he ran the Poetry Australia Foundation and Five Islands Press. He taught creative writing at the Universities of Wollongong and Melbourne. He edited the literary journals SCARP and Blue Dog: Australian Poetry.
Jane Williams' most recent poetry collection is 'Begging the Question' (Ginninderra Press 2008). She lives in Tasmania. www.janewilliams.wordpress.com
Sue Stanford lives in Melbourne and is a PhD candidate in Translation Studies (looking at twentieth century women's haiku from Japanese) at Monash University. The Neon City, a book of haiku, is now available from Post Pressed. Opal (Flat Chat Press) was published in 2006.
Jen Jewel Brown limps through the literary landscape searching for free radicalsexceptions. She collects absurdities, loves strangers and longs for Tasmanian Tigers. Also she's given up on monogamy. The main thing is saving the world though so feel free to pay her lots of money so she can do it. http://flaminghoop.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Compton is a poet and playwright who sometimes writes prose. Her play The Big Picture which premiered at the Griffin Theatre in Sydney will be produced in Perth next year. In 2006 she was a guest at the Sarajevo Poetry Festival. She has recently moved to the outskirts of Melbourne.
Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006). Thanks to a Wales Arts International grant, she travelled from South Wales to New South Wales for a Booranga Writers Centre residency (Wagga) and to participate at the 2008 Critical Animals symposium (Newcastle). www.ivyalvarez.com
Edward Reilly b. 1944 Adelaide, lives in Geelong. He holds a PhD (Poetics) from Victoria Uni. His recent work has been published on-line in Dreaming the Plain (Melbourne) and the Rio Grande Review (El Paso), as well as in anthologies published by Geelong Writers & Deakin Literary Society.
Jason Lee teaches creative writing at the University of Derby. His poetry collections include 'Polaroid Noise' and 'Lost Passports'. He is also the author of the critical works 'The Metaphysics of Mass Art' and 'Pervasive Perversions'. His work has been translated into five languages.
