Contributors
Ali Alizadeh is an
award-winning Iranian-born Australian poet. He migrated to Australia after living through
the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, and is a writer of poetry, criticism and
plays. The major themes of his works are history, dissent and the dilemmas of religion and
spirituality. He holds a PhD in writing from Deakin University, Melbourne.
Pam Allen is Head
of School and teacher of Indonesian and Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania. She
is currently researching the impact of regional autonomy on literature and the arts in
Indonesia with a particular focus on Bali and West Sumatra.
Dael Allison was
co-runner up in the 2005 Wildcare Nature Writing Prize. Other poems have appeared recently
in Blue Dog, Five Bells, Hecate and New England Review.
Jude Aquilina's
poetry, short stories and articles have been published in newspapers, anthologies and
literary journals including The Advertiser, The Canberra Times, Friendly Street Poetry
Anthologies #18 - #28, Overland, Poetrix and Westerly. She lives in Adelaide.
Alan Barnett sold
his business and began travelling with his partner Claire. The journal ‘Alan and
Claire’s travel blog’ chronicles their travels together.
Andrew Bartlett
is a Democrat Senator from Queensland and member of the Australian Parliament since 1997.
He writes a blog in an effort to make politics more accessible, and provide some insights
into the views and life of a federal politician.
Robert James Berry lives
and writes in Auckland, New Zealand. His fourth poetry collection, Sky Writing,
appeared recently from Ginninderra Press.
Ross Bolleter is
a composer and poet. He has participated in renku with John Turner, Susan Murphy, Andrew
Lansdowne, Andrew Burke and Bob Jones. His book of poems, All the Iron Night,
(2004), is published by Smokebush Press. He has recently completed a second book, Bleached
Oats. He is currently creating music inspired by Australian poets such as Kenneth
Slessor and Francis Webb, making full use of the four Ruined Pianos in his kitchen, and
the other twenty out on the olive farm. His latest CD (put out by Emanem) is "Secret
Sandhills and Satellites." He often appears on ABC radio. http://www.warpsmusic.com
Kevin Bonham is
an independent political commentator. He lives in Hobart.
Margaret Bradstock
is a Sydney writer, reviewer, academic and critic whose work has been widely published and
anthologised, in Australia and overseas. Margaret is author/co-editor of thirteen books of
fiction, biography and poetry.
Dawn Bruce has
two collections of free verse and haiku – Stinging the Silence and Tangible
Shadows (Ginninderra Press). Her haiku have appeared in a variety of outlets including
paper wasp, Haiku Harvest, Yellow Moon, Moments, Tiny Words and Haiku Light.
Nathalie Buckland
lives in Nimbin. She is a member of the local haiku groups 'cloudcatchers' and 'Wollumbin
Haiku Workshop' and has had her poetry, including haiku, published both in Australia and
overseas. She also sings with a women's band.
Elizabeth Campbell
was born in Melbourne in 1980. Her poetry has been published widely in Australia, notably
in Best Australian Poetry 2006 and in New Music: an Anthology of Contemporary
Australian Poetry. Her poem Structure of the Horse’s Eye was awarded the
Gwen Harwood Prize in 2006. Her first collection, Letters to the Tremulous Hand will
be published in 2007. Elizabeth teaches English and Literature at Eltham High School in
Melbourne. She has one horse and one cat.
James Charlton’s
award-winning poetry collection Luminous Bodies was published by Montpelier
Press in 2002. He is poetry editor of the Australian literary quarterly, Island, published
in Tasmania.
Jennifer Compton is
a poet and playwright who sometimes writes prose. She was resident at the Whiting Library
in Rome in 2006 and was a guest at the Sarajevo Poetry Festival during her tenure. She
lives in Wingello on the Southern Highlands of NSW – for the moment.
Stuart Cooke was
born in 1980 and grew up in Sydney and Hobart. He is now in Canberra, where he has begun a
PhD in poetry and philosophy.
Ross Coward
lives in West Hobart where he watches the weather and writes occasional haiku. He first
came across haiku during the seventies through the beat writers, in particular Jack
Kerouac, and also through Harold Stewart's translations of Japanese poets. His haiku have
appeared in a number of small presses and on the internet.
Carolyn Stirling
Croshaw lives south of Adelaide with her husband, two children, two cats and ten
chooks. Lately she’s been working on her poetry collection with her tutor, Jeff
Guess.
Sharon Trevelyan Dean
lives on the far north coast of NSW. These days she's besotted with Japanese literary
forms. Her haiku, haibun and related articles have appeared in Yellow Moon, Stylus
Poetry Journal, Famous Reporter, Haiku Dreaming Australia, The World Haiku Review, Simply
Haiku and Contemporary Haibun Online.
Chantale Delrue
was born in Belgium and has lived in Tasmania since 1980. She is a visual artist concerned
with environmental and social issues. Her work is in private and public collections
worldwide. She is currently working towards a solo show at the Burnie Regional Gallery.
Michael de Valle
writes haiku and short stories and lives in the Dandenong Ranges. His first collection of
stories, Take a Breath & Hold It, was shortlisted in the 2006 Queensland
Premier’s Literary Awards. A second collection of stories, Going Home, was
recently published by Mockingbird/Ginninderra Press.
Jenny Diski is a
novelist, essayist and non-fiction writer. She lives in Cambridge in the UK.
Lucy Dougan’s first
book Memory Shell (Five Islands Press: 1998) won the Mary Gilmore award in 2000.
She is poetry editor of HEAT and a postgraduate student at the University of Western
Australia.
Clifton Evers
lectures in the department of gender studies at the University of Sydney. He wrote his PhD
on surfing and cultures of masculinity.
Adrian Flavell’s
poetry has been widely published. He lives in South Australia.
Lorin Ford lives
and writes in Brunswick, Victoria. Her poetry and haiku have been widely published in
journals in Australia, Europe, Japan and America.
Geoff Goodfellow,
throughout his twenty year career in poetry, has revealed a considerable capacity for
listening and close observation. His first collection No Collars No Cuffs, first
published in 1986, is now in its 9th printing. Eight books have followed, most running
into multiple print runs.
Melissa Gregg
completed her PhD in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney.
Melissa's PhD, Scholarly Affect: Voices of Intervention in Cultural Studies,
considered the history of cultural studies in terms of its impact on discursive
conventions in the academy. The book version, Cultural Studies' Affective Voices,
is published by Palgrave MacMillan.
Jeff Guess: From
a background of teaching English in high schools Jeff Guess now tutors at the University
of South Australia and teaches poetry at the Adelaide Institute of TAFE. His eighth
collection of poetry Winter Grace was launched during Writers’ Week in March
2004.
Todd Hardy is a
former neuroscientist, music critic and though it shames him to admit it, professional
student. He has previously published poems in a variety of magazines and newspapers
including Famous Reporter, Quadrant, LiNQ, SideWaLK, Hermes, Small Packages, and The
Newcastle Herald. He currently works as a doctor in Sydney.
Rory Harris is a
South Australian poet and teacher whose poetry collections include Over the Outrow,
From the Residence, Snapshots from a Moving Train, 16 Poems, Uncle Jack and Other Poems,
Waterline and breeze.
Ken Herrera is a
musician and writer of poetry and short fiction, currently living and working in Hobart.
Graeme
Hetherington’s poetry has been widely published in journals and newspapers
including The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Island, Quadrant, LiNQ,
Antipodes; and in his collections Remote Corners, In the Shadow of Van
Diemen’s Land, Life Given and A Tasmanian Paradise Lost.
Janet Howie is a
Melbourne poet and nonfiction writer, who has a particular interest in haiku and haibun.
Steve Isham writes
and illustrates books for children in collaboration with his wife, Marion. Titles include Tiger
Tale, Tasmanian Traveller and Draw Aussie Animals. He lives in Poverty Gully,
Tasmania.
Leanne Jaeger
writes poetry and haiku. She lives in Hobart.
Carol Jenkins lives
in Sydney and is neglecting her career in chemical regulation to write poetry and other
fiction. So far her work has appeared in places including Heat, Island, Cordite,
Quadrant, Snorkel, Overland and Radio Adelaide’s Writers Radio.
Mary Jenkins combines
ecology and poetry. She lives in Hobart.
Judith E.P. Johnson,
a fifth generation Tasmanian, was born in Launceston in 1945. Her latest book, Landmarks:
new and selected poems, has a universal appeal which is uniquely Tasmanian.
Judy Johnson has
a recently published verse novel Jack (Pandanus Books) and two poetry collections
(Five Islands Press and Black Pepper Press) with another forthcoming from Five Islands
Press. She is currently working on a second verse novel with the financial support of a
New Work Grant from the Australia Council.
Bob Jones has a PHd in
Comparative Literature--English, Japanese. His thesis ‘Haiku Nature’ was
published in instalments in Modern Haiku. Lately he has been translating a
little-known French philosopher, Louis Lavelle: a forerunner of existentialism with much
in common with Heidegger. Bob is also a relief teacher, an aikido instructor and
"Habitat Coordinator" for the C4 conservation group in Mission Beach.
Jill Jones is a poet
and writer who lives in Sydney, Australia. Her work has been widely published in most of
the leading literary periodicals in Australia as well as in a number of print and online
magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain and India. Her fourth book, Screens,
Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems, published by Salt Publishing in 2002, won the
2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (NSW Premier's Literary Awards).
Natalie Kelly
grew up in central Victoria and studied forest science and statistics at The University of
Melbourne. She moved to Hobart three years ago with her partner Lachie and works as a
statistician studying whale survey methods with CSIRO.
Sue King-Smith’s
poetry has been published or accepted for publication in Tirra Lirra, Tarralla,
Blue Giraffe, Woorilla, Pendulum, Tamba, Oban ’06 and The Mozzie. For
three years, she co-edited The Animist, an electronic arts ezine now archived by
the National Library. She lives in Central Victoria.
John Kinsella is
an Australian poet and critic, the editor of a number of well-known literary journals and
author of over 30 published books of poetry, prose etc.
Karen Knight is a
Tasmanian writer whose poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies,
including The Best Australian Poems 2005 edited by Les Murray. Her most recent
collection is the chapbook Doctor Says (Picaro Press).
Jules Leigh Koch
lives in Adelaide. His first shared collection of poems A Strip Of Negatives
appeared in Friendly Street New Poets 4, launched by Wakefield Press at Adelaide
Writers’ Week 1998. His first sole volume of poems Each Goldfish is Hand Painted
was published in 2002, also at the Adelaide Writers’ Week.
Yve Louis’ most
recent collection of poetry is The Yellow Dress (2005). She is represented in The
Best Australian Poems 2006 and in High Lean Country: Land, people and memory in New
England (2006).
Tatjana Lukic was
born in former Yugoslavia and lived in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Czech Republic before
moving as a refugee to Australia in 1992. Her more recent poems written in English
appeared in Prague Literary Review (Czech Republic), The Potomac (USA), Salzburg
Review (Austria), Versal (Netherlands) ... and web-wide.
Lorraine Marwood is
a poet and children’s author. She lives in Central Victoria.
Robyn Mathison
has lived in Hobart since 1975, and is a stalwart of Tasmania’s writing community. A
poet and short story writer, reviewer and essayist, bridge-builder and mender of
metaphorical fences, Robyn has worked tirelessly on the committees of writers’
organisations such as the former Tasmanian Writers Union, and the Fellowship of Australian
Writers; has acted as a competition coordinator and judge, and as a representative for
Tasmanian poetry in the pages of interstate newsletters for the Melbourne Poets Union and
the Poets Union.
Shane McCauley is
a West Australian writer. His most recent collection is Glassmaker, a hard-cover
collection from Sunline Press, 2005.
Jo McInerney is a
teacher living in country Victoria, with a partner and daughter who also write. She
has been writing poetry for about two years and has only recently discovered the challenge
and delight of haiku.
Ron Moss has been
published in Australia and overseas in magazines such as Yellow Moon, Heron's
Nest, Frogpond, World Haiku Review, Mainichi Daily News.
He also paints watercolours and haiku "Haiga" which have been published in Paper
Wasp, HaikuHut's Short Stuff, and World Haiku Review. He's a member
of Watersmeet Haiku Group in Hobart, Tasmania and the World Haiku Association and World
Haiku Club. He lives at Leslie Vale, Tasmania.
Louise Nicholas
is an early-morning poet currently living in Adelaide. A collection of her poetry, The
Red Shoe, was published by Friendly Street and the Wakefield Press in 1997. She has
also had some 30-40 poems published in anthologies and magazines. A new collection is
forthcoming from Friendly Street.
Mark
O’Flynn’s novel Grassdogs was published last year by Harper Collins.
His third collection of poetry What Can Be Proven will be published this year by
Interactive Press.
Jan Owen is a
South Australian poet and teacher of creative writing. She has published five books of
poetry including Timedancing (Five Islands Press in 2002) which was short-listed
for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the John Bray National Poetry Prize.
Geoff Page is an
Australian poet who has published sixteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, two
verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography
of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann.
Juliet Paine is a
South Australian poet. Her first poetry collection, Poems for a Paranoid Generation
was published by Ginninderra Press.
Jillian Pattinson
is an Australian poet. Her work has been published in Island, Meanjin, Blue Dog
Australian Poetry, Famous Reporter, Tarralla, Poetrix, Yellow Moon, the Newcastle
Poetry Prize anthologies in 2004 and 2005, with new work in forthcoming editions of Meanjin
and Going Down Swinging.
Kyran Pittman is a
thirty-something poet, essayist, dreamworker, episcopalian, mother to three golden sons
and wife to soulmate Patrick. Originally from Newfoundland, she now lives in the American
south.
Andrew Plunkett is
twenty-two, raised on the North West coast of Tasmania and currently completing a Bachelor
of Natural Environment and Wilderness Studies in Launceston.
David Prater’s
poetry has appeared in various publications including Meanjin, The Age and Best
Australian Poetry 2003. He is the editor of Cordite Poetry Review (www.cordite.org.au), an online poetry journal.
Mark Prendergast
has been published in various journals including Centoria, Famous Reporter, and Overland.
He has read at the Dan O’Connell, Passionate Tongues, and Spinning Room poetry
sessions in Melbourne, where he lives.
Patricia Prime is
co-editor of the haiku magazine Kokako and reviews editor of the Australian online
magazine Stylus. Her recent publications include interviews with Beverley George,
editor of Eucalypt (Aus), Sandra Simpson, editor of Haiku NewZ, and Raewyn
Alexander, editor of Magazine. Beverley George recently interviewed Patricia for
the spring issue of the online magazine Simply Haiku.
Nicholas Rasche is
an Australian writer of fiction. One of his short stories – ‘Seventeen
Across’ - appeared in Island 108.
Andrew Reeves lives
in Hobart. His interest in bushwalking and long-distance running give rise to many haiku
moments, which he has recently started to write down.
Dylis Rose was
born and brought up in Glasgow, but lives in Edinburgh. She's published five collections
of short stories, including Our Lady of the Pickpockets, Red tides, War
dolls, and Lord of illusions. She's also written several books of poetry,
written for stage, and collaborated with musicians and artists, as well as teaching
creative writing at Edinburgh University.
Graham Rowlands
is an Adelaide-based poet who has published widely in magazines and newspapers since the
late 1960s.
Max Ryan is on
extended leave in New Brighton, Northern NSW. His haiku have appeared in both Australian
haiku anthologies by Haiku Oz, Yellow Moon, Free Xpressions, Paper Wasp, Famous
Reporter, Presence (UK) and Blythe Spirit (UK). His poetry collection Rain-swayed
Night (Dangerously Poetic) won the 2005 Anne Elder Award.
Carla Sari writes
haiku, tanka, haibun, short fiction and reviews. She enjoys classical music and sitting by
the sea. She lives in North Carlton (Vic) with her husband and her 14 year old dog.
arina Scott is a
haiku poet who occasionally writes longer poems. She has also collaborated with composers
to produce hymns for church worship. Marina lives in Geelong, Victoria.
Maureen Sexton is
a writer, poet and editor who has been published widely nationally, and had some
international publication success. She has been involved with various writing
groups/activities in and around Western Australia and South Australia. An
internationalist, she is interested in the environment movement, human rights and social
justice issues. She was the Co-ordinator in 2005 and Co-director in 2006 of the WA Spring
Poetry Festival. She co-founded The Word is Out Poetry Journal. She has a
Bachelor of Arts in Writing through Edith Cowan University, with some studies undertaken
at Murdoch University and Flinders University.
Michael
Sharkey’s most recent book is The Sweeping Plain, [Five Islands
Press]. He lives in regional New South Wales.
Shen lives in
Adelaide where he works as a general practitioner, having arrived in Australia as a
teenager in the mid-1980s. A poet of Malaysian-Chinese origin, he completed an Asialink
Literature Residency in Vietnam in 2002. His first collection, City of My Skin
(Five Islands Press), was published in 2001.
Ali Jane Smith lives
in Wollongong. Her work has appeared in various online and print journals and she has
recorded readings for an audio CD. In 2006, Five Islands Press published her first poetry
collection, Gala.
Christiana Szczerba is
a painter, and manager of a Tasmanian bookshop. Her poetry, articles and book reviews have
been published in a variety of publications, and she has been runner up in the Dorothea
Mackellar National Poetry Competition. Her contemporary portraits place women in Tasmanian
landscapes and explore themes of vulnerability and beauty.
Martina Taeker is
a published poet and short story writer. She has travelled and worked extensively
overseas, including in Japan. She teaches various writing courses at the WEA in Adelaide,
as well as to community groups.
Tim Thorne is the
author of ten volumes of poetry, the most recent being Best Bitter (PressPress, May
2006). Tim was for many years the Director of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival, and is the
managing editor of Cornford Press.
Marion Tracy is
currently living in Australia after teaching Literature in colleges in England. Her poetry
has been published both in Australia and the UK, including the November 2006 issue of Blue
Dog.
Colin Varney is
an Adelaide short story writer.
rob walker is a
South Australian writer and educator. He teaches music and drama in a state primary
school in the southern metropolitan area of Adelaide and lives on a small farm in the
Adelaide Hills. His first full-length poetry collection, micromacro (Seaview
Press) was launched on September 30, 2006.
Louise Waller has
received national awards and grants for her poetry and work in theatre. Recent poetry from
her developing collection Aftershocks appears in Blue Dog: Australian Poetry
and papertiger #04. Her first collection Slipway was published in Swelter
(IP2003) and (IP Digital 2004). Louise lives in Yeppoon, Queensland.
Ralph Wessman
publishes famous reporter with the support of Arts Tasmania.
Lucy Williams is
a Melbourne poet whose first collection of poems, Birthmarks, was published by Five
Islands Press.
Rodney Williams
has had haiku, tanka and longer poems published in a range of journals in Australia, New
Zealand and the United States.
Quendryth Young, a
grandmother, who lives on the far north coast of New South Wales, is a retired cytologist
- a career that spanned forty years. She co-authored My Days' Circle with two other
poets in 1994, and published a collection of her own poetry, Naked in Sepia, which
was awarded the Fast Books Best Book of Poetry Award for 2005. Her passion for haiku is
accelerating.