A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
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.
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.
Originally from the west of Ireland and living in Australia for three decades, Anne Casey is the author of five poetry collections. Her work is widely published and awarded internationally, ranking in The Irish Times’ Most Read. Anne is a doctoral researcher in archival poetry and poetics of resistance at the University of Technology Sydney where she teaches creative writing
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.
Barbara Temperton is a writer of poetry and prose. She lives in Kinjarling Albany on the south coast of Western Australia. Barbara is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent being Ghost Nets (WA Poets Publishing: Perth, Western Australia, 2022.
Esther Ottaway is a Tasmanian/lutruwita poet, editor and mentor who has won or been shortlisted for global prizes including the Tom Collins, Woorilla, MPU International, Mslexia, Bridport, Montreal, and Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry. Her acclaimed new collection, She Doesn’t Seem Autistic, poetically lifts the lid on bright girls with hidden autism, who are going undiagnosed and unsupported in a medical system designed for boys. In 2024, Esther will release a landmark anthology of disability writing, co-edited with Andy Jackson and Kerri Shying, titled Raging Grace: Australian writers speak out on disability (Puncher & Wattmann).
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