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Zalehah Turner

Zalehah Turner is a Sydney based poet, photographer, cultural journalist, and Associate Editor of Rochford Street Review (RSR). Zalehah regularly contributes articles and interviews on poetry, art, film, and new media for RSR and the UTS magazine, Vertigo. Zalehah’s poetry was projected onto the Federation Square Wall in Melbourne as part of the Overload Poetry Festivals, 2008 and 2009; exhibited at Mark and Remark ,107 Projects, Redfern in 2013; and displayed in Alice Springs and Moruya thanks to Australian Poetry Café poets, Laurie May and Janette Dadd respectively. Her poems have been published in Writing Laboratory (2013), Sotto (2013), Social Alternatives (2016), Vertigo (2016, 2017), UTS’s The Empathy Poems Project (2017) and Rochford Street Review (2017). She co-judged the New Shoots Poetry Prizes 2016 alongside, Tamryn Bennett, Artistic Director of The Red Room Company, and published the winning and highly commended poems. Zalehah is currently working on an intermedia poetry collection entitled, 'Critical condition', focused on the interstitial threshold between life and death in medical crises based on personal experience. Zalehah holds a BA in Communication with a major in writing and cultural studies from the University of Technology, Sydney where she continues to pursue pushing the boundaries of multimedia poetry in Honours (Communication- Creative Writing).

A treasure of knowledge: Beatriz Copello reviews ‘Dark Matters’ by Susan Hawthorne

by Zalehah Turner on April 1, 2018April 13, 2021
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Dark Matters: a novel, Issue 24, Spinifex Press

A taste of the international poetry festivals: Featured Writers’ introduction by Les Wicks

by Zalehah Turner on October 3, 2017August 19, 2021
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Issue 24, Les Wicks

Contemporary Irish Poetry Featured Writer: Michael J. Whelan

by Zalehah Turner on July 6, 2017September 3, 2022
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Issue 22, Michael J. Whelan

New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016 winner: ‘Leaving Wilona’ by John Stokes

by Zalehah Turner on December 1, 2016December 7, 2016
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Issue 20, New Shoots Poetry Prizes, New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016

New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016 highly commended: ‘our primitive lives’ by John Bennett

by Zalehah Turner on December 1, 2016December 6, 2016
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Issue 20, New Shoots Poetry Prizes, New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016, Uncategorized

Issue 19: July 2016 – September 2016

by Zalehah Turner on September 30, 2016October 12, 2016
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Administration, Issue 19, Rochford Street Review
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