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Elizabeth Walton is an emerging literary writer and a musician whose work concentrates on environmental and social justice. She has been listed in many national literature awards including the Tom Collins and June Shenfield poetry prizes. A finalist in the Furphy and Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, the AAWP and Ros Spencer poetry prizes, Elizabeth has recently been in residency at the Wollongong Botanic Gardens and Bundanon.

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Glen Hunting is currently based in Mparntwe, Arrernte Country (Alice Springs, NT). He writes about estrangement and (be)longing, cultural culpability, (en)gendered notions of bodies and behaviour, and the difficulty of recognising truth in the age of mass misinformation.

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Then this morning a received a notification from Facebook saying that the Rae Desmond Jones ad had been rejected as it was too political and didn’t apply with their “policy about social issues, elections or political policy”.

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The Twilight Observatory demands of a reader the willingness to take risks, to engage with matters beyond traditional borders. This challenge is something not everyone has the ovarios for. But hers is not cryptic poetry and nor is it self-indulgent.

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Megan Cartwright is an Australian poet and teacher. Her writing has been published in journals and magazines around the world, including Contemporary Verse 2, Cordite Poetry Review and Island Magazine.

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The blurb on the back of the book refers to this type of writing as ‘hard pastoral’. It is what we encounter in those bucolic bards, Seamus Heaney and Les Murray. It is also what we see in that lesser-known Australian Phillip Hodgins, a poet who was taken from us far too young. By Brendan’s admission, all three poets have influenced his writing. The sensibility of these four poets is a far cry from the sentimental evocations of rural life by the likes of Banjo Paterson and CJ Dennis.

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Eileen Sheehan is from the Southwest of Ireland. One of the poems from her most recent collection, The Narrow Way of Souls (Salmon Poetry), featured on the Leaving Certificate English Syllabus. Anthology publications include Blackjack, with translations by Oana Lungu (editors Dorina Șișu and Viorel Ploeșteanu / Singur Publishing)

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Gold digger is a nuanced journey through the world of women’s labour. We don’t just meet a small-scale prospector here, but a range of female workers across domestic, civic, and commercial spheres.

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In this anthology, flight becomes a portal. Through it, we encounter ‘freedom and departure, courage and longing, weightlessness and transcendence’. Rather than limiting itself to a singular interpretation, Poetry of Flight opens up an entire sky of metaphor, meaning, and collective experiences.

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