A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Lyn Chatham completed an MA in Writing and Literature at Deakin University in 2023. In 2022 her essay on keeping a writing notebook was published in Meanjin and her book reviews have been published in the ecojournal, Plumwood Mountain. In 2018 her poetry chapbook, Artisan, was published by Melbourne Poets Union, and in 2005 her memoir of a Winchelsea resident, Martino’s Story, was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
Owen Bullock’s latest poetry collection is Pancakes for Neptune (Recent Work Press, 2023), following three previous poetry titles, five books of haiku, a bilingual edition of tanka, and a novella. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Canberra. His other interests include music, juggling and chess.
Maria Bonar writes poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Creatrix, Catchment: Poetry of Place, Poetry d’Amour, Bronze Quill Winners Anthology, Stringybark Stories, BootsnAll, numerous anthologies and online publications. A former CEO, nurse, social health researcher and parole officer, she often travelled solo in rural and remote areas of Western Australia, which is reflected in her writing.
Patricia Sykes is a poet and librettist. Her poems and collections have received various awards and have featured on the ABC’s Poetica and The Spirit of Things. Her collaborations with composer Liza Lim have been performed in Australia, Paris, Germany, Russia, New York and the UK. She was Asialink Writer in Residence Malaysia, 2006. A song cycle by Andrew Aronowicz, based on her poetry collection, The Abbotsford Mysteries, is available as podcast.
Andrew is a Naarm/Melbourne poet who ruminates on politics, travel and the human condition. He published his first book of poetry, Soul Moves, in 2018 and has had poems published in a number of other magazines, anthologies and outlets including Blue Nib, Bowen Street Press, Pocketry, n SCRIBE and dSCRIBE. Andrew is occasionally active within the Spoken Word community in Melbourne.
Planning J Saw is an Australian-born, Singapore-raised, and Malaysian-heritage young artist. Navigating his roots and branches has been perhaps the only constant in his life. Therefore, he endeavours to speak firmly to himself and, by extension, to communities through poetry.
Lisa Collyer is a writer and educator in Boorloo. She is the author of the poetry collection, How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, which was short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award and is published with Gazebo Books/Life Before Man. She is widely published and was a recent writer in residence for City of Swan, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre, The National Trust of W.A. and W.A. Poets Inc.
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet, author and critic who lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri peoples of the East Kulin Nation. Her poetry, prose and critique have been published widely in literary journals such as Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Westerly and the Australian Book Review.
The theme of 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival ‘Poetry that sounds like all of us! welcomes poets to share, listen, and put diverse points of view. Similarly, Rochford Press invited submissions that responded to Poetries of place / displacement / diaspora/odyssey and we were bowled over by the submissions which came in from writers from a range of communities, both here and internationally.
Rochford Street Review 