A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
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.
Jennifer Allen is a satirical poet who lives in Brunswick, Victoria. Jennifer’s second collection of poems titled Everything Feeds It was published by Recent Work Press in March 2024.
Irina Frolova is a Russian-Australian writer who lives on Awabakal Country. Irina’s creative highlights include her poetry collection Far and Wild (Flying Islands, 2021), the second prize in the 2021 Deborah Cass Prize for writing, and a longlisting in the 2023 University of Canberra VC International Poetry Prize.
Mark Prendergast is a writer living in Preston. His poems and reviews have been published in various journals including foam:e, Rochford Street Review, PN Review and Tears in the Fence.
Edward Caruso is based in Naarm, Australia. Recently, he has been published in A Voz Limpia, Live Encounters, TEXT, Unusual Work and Well-Known Corners: Poetry on the Move. His second collection of poems, Blue Milonga, was published by Hybrid Publishers in January 2019. In August 2019 he featured on Radio 3CR’s Spoken Word program. In 2024, he co-judged the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize.
Carl Walsh is a neurodiverse poet who lives and writes in Melbourne on Wurundjeri land. His poetry has appeared in StylusLit, Meanjin, Rabbit, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Shearsman Magazine, Echidna Tracks, Westerly and Jacaranda (amongst others). His first book of poetry, Tarp Green Light has just been published through Flying Islands.