Vanessa Page hails from Toowoomba but feels most at peace in the outback. A seventh‑generation Australian with First Fleet ancestry, she fell in love with books while spending lonely holidays with her grandmother. She’s the only university graduate in her family—BA in Journalism (USQ), PR diploma (RMIT), and a Master’s in Professional Communication (USQ)—earned while raising a…
Category: journals
Rae Armantrout | ‘The absence of certainty’, a conversation with Kate Lilley
(Cordite Poetry Review, 4th February 2025) Kate Lilley: … One of the things you said when we were having a bit of back and forth about how we might do this was when I asked you what often gets left out, because everybody writes about (for good reason) the markedly intelligent, propositional, ‘thinky’ character of…
RIP David Bircumshaw
Sorry to learn of the loss of English poet David Bircumshaw recently. Had thought I might get to catch up with him on a visit to England mid last year, but it didn’t eventuate. We published a couple of issues together (British and Australian versions) of a short-lived poetry journal (‘The Chide’s Alphabet’) years back;…
Research journals and gatekeeping
Caitlin Cassidy, The Guardian, 10th March 2024 “We’ve set up a crazy system where publishers own and control knowledge and we’ve let them do that,” Foley says. “Researchers give content for free, sign over copyright, and publishers make a lot of money. “You can get rubbish, nonsense and misinformation online for free but you have…
‘Otoliths’: issue 65, southern autumn issue
Issue sixty-five of Otoliths, the southern autumn 2022 issue, is now up. This issue, which marks the beginning of the seventeenth year of the journal’s existence, contains a mix of — sometimes mixed — photographs, paintings, short stories, poetry, interviews, magazine columns, & manifestos from an international contributor list including Karl Kempton, Linda King,…