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Susan Adams was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She has performed and taught ballet internationally, worked as Nursing Consultant/Educator and following her PhD as a Research Scientist. Having come late tp poetry she has nonetheless been published across nine countries in three languages. Her book Beside Rivers was runner up in the prestigious Anne Elder Prize.
Doc Drumheller has worked in award winning groups for theatre and music and has published 11 collections of poetry. His poems are translated into more than 20 languages. He is the editor and publisher of the New Zealand literary journal Catalyst, and is the editor in chief of the World Congress of Poets literary journal Fuego.
Amanda Anastasi was commissioned to write a poetic call to action for COP30 that was a clear, urgent summary of climate impacts across the Oceania region. It was written in response to speakers ranging from policy experts to Indigenous elders at the Global Ethical Stocktake (GES) – Oceania Region.
In Incandescence, Susan has crafted a collection that arises from the everyday, while expanding into the universal. These themes of parenting, caregiving, surviving a pandemic, holding a marriage together, walking through grief, and making space for joy, even amid exhaustion, mean that her poems glow with warmth and insight, even when they explore moments of deep difficulty.
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are The Colour of Extinction (Renard Press, October 2024) and An Ocean Called Hope (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
Mark Mahemoff remembers Robert Gray (1945-2025).
A Dodds poem may be as likely to be set in a classroom as on a farm paddock as on a film screen. It may take the form of couplets, stepped stanzas, a concrete poem, a list or even an erasure.
Jack Galmitz was born in 1951 in New York City. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Buffalo in modern American Literature. His work has appeared in print and digital poetry venues. He was a long-time contributor to Otoliths and Ginyu, a Japanese haiku magazine published by Ban’ya Natsuishi. His work has appeared in Alien Buddha Press, Synchronized Chaos, and many others. He is married and lives with his wife in New York.
Many of Michael Quinn’s poem deal with the personal and collective trauma in the Irish psyche.
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