Guest Poetry Editor: Terry Jaensch
Terry Jaensch is a an Australian poet/actor and monologist based in Melbourne. His first book of poetry, Buoy (Five Islands Press 2001) was highly commended in the Anne Elder Award by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. He has worked as a Writer-in-Community, Artist-in-Residence, Dramaturge and Artistic Director of the 2005 Melbourne Emerging Writers' Festival. He is widely published in journals (hardcopy and on-line), both locally and internationally. His work has been broadcast on radio and in 2004 he was commissioned to write and record 15 monologues based on his childhood in a Ballarat orphanage for 'Life Matters' ABC Radio National. In 2004/05 he was the recipient of an Asialink residency in Singapore, which led to his most recent publication, Excess Baggage and Claim.
Emilie Zoey Baker is a writer and artist currently living in Melbourne. Check out her website.
Sebastian Gurciullo has co-edited and contributed to the textbase journal since its inception in 1998. His first collection of concrete poetry is Marginal Text (textbase publications 2004). His concrete poems have recently been published in Prague Literary Review (2004) and Unusual Work (2005). He works as an editor and curator at Public Record Office Victoria.
John Leonard is a Canberra poet who was born in the UK in 1965 and came to Australia in 1991. He has had three collections of poetry and his New and Selected Poems will be published by Salt this year. He was Poetry Editor of Overland from 2003-07.
Jane Gibian's latest collection of poetry is Ardent (Giramondo, 2007). She works as a librarian and studies Vietnamese.
joanne burns is a Sydney poet. Her most recent book is an illustrated history of dairies, Giramondo Publishing 2007.
Iain Britton's poetry has appeared or is about to appear in such international publications as Ambit, Stand, Magma, Harvard Review, Slope, Poetry Saltzburg Review, Southerly, Poetry NZ, Heat, Jacket, Tinfish, Drunken Boat, Rattapallax and Harvest Magazine. Cinnamon Press will soon be publishing his first collection of poems.
Ouyang Yu writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction in both English and Chinese and he now divides his time between China and Australia.
Paul Mitchell is a Melbourne-based poet and fiction writer. His latest books are Awake Despite the Hour (poetry) and Dodging the Bull (short fiction). He worries that he is missing a lot of good TV and is concerned about his daughter's request for a guinea pig. Check out his website.
Brendan Ryan's poetry books include Why I Am Not a Farmer, (Five Islands Press), A Paddock In His Head, (Five Islands Press) and a new collection, A Tight Circle, (Whitmore Press) which will be published March 2008. He lives in Portarlington.
Adrian Caesar is a Canberra writer, who spent last year teaching creative writing at the ANU. His latest book of poems is High Wire (Pandanus Press, 2006).
Simon Patton works as a literary translator specializing in contemporary Chinese literature. He earns a wage teaching Chinese language and translation at the University of Queensland. Since November 2002, he has co-edited the China domain of Poetry International Web with the Chinese poet Yu Jian.
Auston Rotheram lives, surfs and works in country Victoria and Tasmania whilst continually trying to sort out this strange fragile life. He is slowly building a collection of poems for publication.
Michael Farrell has published 2 books: ode ode and BREAK ME OUCH. Number three, a raiders guide is imminent. He recently completed an M.A. thesis on the billycan in Australian poetry, and is interested in a Phd on 'stillness'.
SJ Finn went to the distant shore of Vietnam to write these poems. Poems that are about people and places who exist in her life at home in Melbourne. Her poem Unsaved was published in The Age recently and her short stories have been published in literary mags and produced on radio.
Richard Fein was Finalist in The 2004 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. He has been published in many web and print journals, such as Oregon East Southern Humanities Review, Touchstone, Windsor Review, Maverick, Parnassus Literary Review, Small Pond, Kansas Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Exquisite Corpse, and many others. He also has an interest in digital photography.
Steven Hammond has a fetish for words: speaking and writing them. He likes sandwiches, is a Chicago poet, photographer, musician [of sorts], and author of the book P, Anyone? You can visit his Myspace page.
Alison Eastley lives in Tasmania, Australia with her two teenage sons, a food processer and a stolen vacuum cleaner. Her work has been published in FourW, The Weekend Australian, Meanjin, Island and many anthologies.
Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006). Her poetry is published in journals and anthologies worldwide and online. A MacDowell and Hawthornden Fellow, both the Australia Council for the Arts and the Welsh Academi awarded her grants to write poems for her second manuscript. Visit her website.
New York City native Laura Silver spent a month in Sydney, Australia working at the 2000 Paralympic Games and took an overnight train to Broken Hill, New South Wales. Her work has been heard on National Public Radio and WNYC, New York Public Radio and has been published in magazines and newspapers in New York City and beyond.
Ali Alizadeh is Cordite's reviews editor and has a website.
SKIN MUSEUM (2006) and AQUILINE (2007) are Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's two poetry books, both published in Tokyo, Japan. Her third book, EXHIBIT C, is forthcoming. Other work has recently been in or forthcoming in New American Writing, Otoliths, Bateau, Tinfish, One Less, 580 Split and dozens of other journals. She works as an associate professor at a national university in central Japan.
Basil Eliades is an artist and author more interested in energy than appearance. His third poetry collection 3rd i was released by IP in 2006. The audio+text-active CD 3rd i was released in March, 2007, when he was also the feature artist of Etchings 2. His next solo exhibition will be held at Door 3 in Daylesford later this year. Go to www.basileliades.com. He was interviewed this month by Maggie Ball on the Compulsive Reader program.
Born in Newcastle in 1981, Sam Byfield is the author of From the Middle Kingdom (Pudding House Press). His recent publications include Heat and Linq (Australia), The National Poetry Review, The Cream City Review, Diner and Meridian (North America), Nimesis (UK), and many online venues.
Jane Williams is a poet and short story writer living in Tasmania. Her latest poetry collection is Begging the Question (Ginninderra Press) due out April 2008. More information and samples of her work can be found at her website.
Philippa Philippa Meadows is an amateur cynic with a penchant for politics, geekery and humour. She has a wonderful husband, far too many books, and a blog called Shattersnipe. Her current habitat is Melbourne.
