A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Margaret (Margo) Owen Ruckert is a prize-winning poet, with a wide variety of poetry published – Australia and overseas. Two books You Deserve Dessert and musefood explore café culture. Five books of tanka explore landscape through ekphrasis. Living in Sydney, she facilitates Hurstville’s Discovery Writers, presenting monthly writing workshops.
Gabrielle Higgins, founder of Mud brick poet, is a bookbinder and poet, living on Wurundjeri Country in the Yarra Valley. Her poetry publications include Cordite, Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, Paper Wasp and Plumwood Mountain. Her poem was highly commended in the Philip Bacon Ekphrastic Poetry Prize 2016.
Tim Slade (b. 1976) is a poet from Lutruwita / Tasmania. His poems are widely published and broadcast, including for the ABC’s Radio National, Australian Poetry Anthology, Margaret Reid International Poetry Prize, Island, Cordite Poetry Review, and The Weekend Australian. Longlisted for the 2022 Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry, his debut collection is The Walnut Tree (2021, Bright South). Tim’s forthcoming book of poems is The Wave of Life.
Emma Lee’s publications include The Significance of a Dress (Arachne, 2020) and Ghosts in the Desert (IDP, 2015). She co-edited Over Land, Over Sea, (Five Leaves, 2015), reviews for magazines
Rob McKinnon lives in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. His poetry has been published in Meanjin Quarterly, under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, Forty South Publishing, Wales Haiku Journal, and other online and print journals. He has been nominated for Best of the Net and Touchstone Individual Poem Awards.
Janet Reinhardt is a Sydney poet whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout Australia, the UK and the USA: mot recently in Cordite, Rochford St. Review and forthcoming in Hecate, and WA Inc. Poetry d’Amour.
Tina Giannoukos is a poet, writer, critic, editor, and creative writing teacher. She is the author of two poetry collections, including Bull Days (Arcadia, 2016), which was shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2017 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.
Cath Drake is from Perth and lives in London, UK. The Shaking City (Seren Books), longlisted in the international Laurel Prize, highly commended in the UK Forward Prize, followed Sleeping with Rivers, Poetry Book Society choice, winner of the Seren/Mslexia pamphlet prize. Published widely in anthologies and literary journals internationally, Cath is also a mindfulness teacher, an award-winning environmental writer and she hosts The Verandah, quality online poetry events.
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.
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