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Scott-Patrick Mitchell was Highly Commended in the 2024 Blake Poetry Prize and was a 2022 Red Room Poetry Felowship. Their debut poetry collection Clean (Upswell Publishing, 2022) was shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, The WA Premier’s Book Awards and The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. SPM is a queer non-binary immigrant who lives and writes on Whadjuk Noongar Country.
Glen Hunting is a poet based in Mparntwe, Arrernte country (Alice Springs, NT). Among other things, he writes about notions of home, estrangement, and cultural value, and the hopes and frustrations surrounding reciprocity, allyship, and empowerment. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Verandah, Plumwood Mountain, Blue Bottle Journal, Portside Review, London Grip New Poetry, and elsewhere. He received a 2024 Varuna/Arts NT residential fellowship and was joint winner of the 2024 Liquid Amber Emerging Poet Prize.
Louise Oxley’s two collections are Compound Eye, commended in the Anne Elder award, and Buoyancy, shortlisted in the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Awards. Awards for individual poems include the Bruce Dawe, Melbourne Poets Union and Shoalhaven poetry prizes.
Rochford Street Review was saddened to hear that the Irish poet and writer Breda Wall Ryan passed away over night. Breda was a fine poet who we got to know while putting together the Contemporary Irish Poetry Supplement for RSR in 2017.
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.
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