A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Denise O’Hagan is a Sydney-based editor and poet, born in Italy, with a background in academic book publishing. Former poetry editor with Irish literary journal, The Blue Nib, her work is widely published and awarded. Her poetry collection Anamnesis (Recent Work Press) was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Award (USA) and the Eyelands Book Award (Greece) and shortlisted in the Rubery Book Award (UK).
Eoin Flannery is a Professor of Irish Literature based in Limerick, Ireland. He has published 12 books of literary criticism on modern and contemporary Irish fiction and poetry, with a special interest in environmentalism. He is currently preparing a collection of poetry entitled, ‘Unshadow’.
Rose Hunter is the author of several books of poetry including Body Shell Girl (Spinifex Press, 2022) and glass (Five Islands Press, 2017). She has been widely published in literary journals in Australia, the USA, and Canada, and she has been published at the ABC and a guest on the ABC’s Radio National. Rose was born in Australia and lived in Canada for ten years, then Mexico for ten more. She currently lives in Brisbane/Meanjin.
Janis La Couvée (she/her) is a writer and poet with a love of wild green spaces, dedicated to conservation efforts in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada —home since time immemorial to the Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ people. Words in Pure Slush, Counterflow 3 (Wordstorm Society of the Arts), Jake the Anti-Literary Magazine, Splendor of Wings (League of Canadian Poets chapbook), Litmora Literary Magazine, among others.
Alex Skovron is the author of seven collections of poetry, a prose novella, The Poet (2005), and a book of short stories, The Man who Took to his Bed (2017). His volume of new and selected poems, Towards the Equator (2014), was shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. His work has been translated into a number of languages, and he has co-authored book-length translations of two Czech poets: Jiří Orten and Vladimír Holan. His most recent book of poetry is Letters from the Periphery (2021). A new collection of short narratives in prose and verse is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann. He was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award for achievements in poetry and prose and his lifelong support for writers and writing in Melbourne and beyond.
Margaret Bradstock is a Sydney poet, critic and editor. She has been a Senior Lecturer at UNSW, Asialink writer-in-residence at Beijing University, and on the Board of Directors for Australian Poetry. Her poetry is widely published and has won awards, including the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for “The Pomelo Tree” and the Woollahra Festival Award for “Barnacle Rock”. “Alchemy of the Sun” is her ninth collection.
Andrew Leggett is an Australian writer and editor of poetry, fiction, interdisciplinary academic paper and songs. His latest collection of poetry Losing Touch was published by Ginninderra Press in 2022. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry.
berni m janssen is a poet, a maker: a maker of poems, texts, books, performances, sonic and visual art, events, programs & projects. Many collaborative, multidisciplinary, community engaged, ‘live art’, long-term. She works with other artists, including sound, visual and text artists, composers, musicians and performers. The work has been presented in books and magazines, at events, festivals, on radio and web over many, many years.
Mark Mahemoff’s poetry has been published in one Chapbook, a CD selection, and six full-length volumes. The latest, which was launched at The Newcastle Writer’s Festival, is Beautiful Flames (Flying Islands 2024). Mark works full-time as a psychotherapist.
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