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David Ades’ first published poem appeared in 1986 in the No. 12 Friendly Street Poetry Reader. His poems have appeared in many subsequent Friendly Street Readers and in a variety of Australian literary magazines, and have also been broadcast on radio. He has read his work at many venues around South Australia and also in Austin, Texas. Together with Ioana Petrescu, he edited the Friendly Street Poetry Reader 26.

Dael Allison was co-runner up in the 2005 Wildcare Nature Writing Prize. Her essay ‘Portrait of a Wild Pool’ was published in Island 102. She has also had poems accepted in Blue Dog, Five Bells, Hecate and New England Review.

Jim Arkell is a Novocastrian poet.

Nicholas Barwell, retired ancient mariner, home port Applecross WA. Nicholas plays jazz piano, writes letters and talks on the phone to excess, loves backgammon, and reads Alan Watts forever.

Jim Bashfield grew up in Hobart and then moved around in both Tasmania and New South Wales while pursuing a career with Australia Post. A member of FAW (Tas), he has written many memoirs of his experiences in the Navy during WW2, and as a Postmaster and District Postal Inspector. He says he writes for fun and mental exercise. He lives in retirement with his wife at Kingston. Other interests include lawn bowls and Legacy.

Michael Beaumont-Connop is semi-retired and now has time for poetry, his first love. He lives in Queensland.

Martine Bellen is the author of The Vulnerability of Order, Copper Canyon Press (June 2001), Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems, Sun & Moon Press (1999) which won the National Poetry Series Award, and Places People Dare Not Enter, Potes & Poets Press (1991). Martine's work has appeared in numerous journals, including Grand Street, Sulfur, Colorado Review, and New American Writing. Since 1988 she has been an editor of the literary journal Conjunctions.

John Bird is a right-handed poet from the east coast of Australia.

Karen Blaylock is an Adelaide poet whose work has been published in the Adelaide Review, Canberra Times, Quadrant, Famous Reporter, Artlook and Heat. Her work has also been anthologised and read on radio.

Kevin Bonnett is a Melbourne poet whose recent work has been published in journals including The Mozzie, Divan, Vernacular, Blast and Overland.

Peter Boyle has published four collections of poetry – Museum of Space (UQP, 2004), Coming Home from the World (UQP, 1994) which was a joint winner of the 1994 Banjo Award for Poetry and the 1995 NSW Premier’s Prize; The Blue Cloud of Crying (Hale & Iremonger, 1997) which won the 1997 Banjo Award for Poetry and the 1998 SA Premier’s Prize; What the Painter saw in our Faces (Five Islands Press, 2001).

Kevin Brophy is the author of three novels and three collections of poetry. His latest book of poetry is Portrait in Skin. Melbourne University Press published his pioneering work, Creativity: Psychoanalysis, Surrealism and Creative Writing in 1998.

Dawn Bruce has two collections of free verse and haiku – Stinging the Silence and Tangible Shadows (Ginninderra Press). Her haiku have appeared in a variety of outlets including paper wasp, Haiku Harvest, Yellow Moon, Moments, Tiny Words and Haiku Light.

Mairead Byrne is an Irish poet who immigrated to the United States in 1994. Her collection of poetry Nelson & The Huruburu Bird was published by Wild Honey Press in 2003. Recent publications include two chapbooks, An Educated Heart and Vivas, and an ebook, China Dogs. She is the author of two plays, The Golden Hair and Safe Home; a short book on James Joyce, Joyce — A Clew; two books of interviews with Irish artists, Eithne Jordan and Michael Mulcahy; and was a journalist for eight years in Ireland and the United States. She earned a PhD in English Literature from Purdue University in 2001 and lives with her two daughters in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches poetry at Rhode Island School of Design. Her poetry blog is at maireadbyrne.blogspot.com

Adrian Caesar was born near Manchester, and has lived in Australia since 1982. He is senior lecturer in English at the University College of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy.

Jasmine Chan is a Melbourne-based writer and freelance editor. Her work comprises plays, travelogues, essays and occasional fiction. Endpapers (weblog): http://jtchan.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Compton lives in Wingello on the Southern Highlands of NSW. She is a poet and a playwright and has written many plays for radio which have been produced in Australia and New Zealand.

Stuart Cooke is a 25 year old writer from Sydney, however he has recently moved to Hobart. He organises ‘The Loft Readings’ at UTS and is completing his first novel, The Secret Diaries of James Cook.

Bill Cotter writes poetry and fiction. He lives in Bairnsdale, Victoria.

Louise Crisp’s first collection was the luminous ocean, in the shared volume with Valery Wilde entitled In the Half-Light, (Friendly Street Poets 1988). Other volumes include: pearl & sea fed (Hazard Press NZ, 1994), shortlisted for the 1995 NSW Premiers’ Awards; Ruby Camp: A Snowy River series (Spinifex Press, Melbourne 1998); and three golden fish (Wind and Water Press, 2004). Louise lives in East Gippsland, Victoria with her partner and two daughters.

John Cunningham is spending his retirement travelling the backblocks of the country, recording his experiences. (One day there’ll be a book come out of them).

Martin Edmond is a writer living in Sydney.

Michael Farrell is the Australian editor of slope. His recent book is ode ode (Salt Publishing). He lives in Melbourne.

James Finnegan lives in West Hartford CT. He works as an underwriter in the field of financial institution insurance. He manages the New Poetry List (http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry). His poems have appeared in many literary journals including ONTHEBUS, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Carolyn Fisher moved from the UK to a quiet corner on the northwest coast of Tasmania twelve years ago. She has had poems published in literary magazines in Australia and in the UK and is currently working toward a first collection of poetry with assistance from an Arts Tasmania and an Australia Council grant.

Adrian Flavell’s most recent acceptances have come from LiNQ, Social Alternatives, The Canberra Times, Takuhe (N.Z.), Tamba and The Weekend Australian.

Caroline Flood is a widely published writer. She lives in Sydney.

Maria Flutsch has taught Japanese language and literature at the University of Tasmania since 1975. She lives in Hobart.

Lorin Ford lives and writes in Brunswick, Victoria. Her haiku have been published in print and online journals in Australia, Europe, Japan and America. She shared equal first prize in the 2004 paper wasp Jack Stamm Award.

Will Fraser’s first collection is Leema’s Llamas, (Picaro Press).

William S. Galasso is the author of ten poetry books, including Blood (family) and Ink (poems 1996 – 2003) and Odori, Blue (haiku/senryu) 2004. He’s appeared in Poets On, Bouillabaisse, Midwest Poetry Review and been published in Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, England, Croatia and Romania.

Beverley George is a poet and editor, and publisher of Yellow Moon, a literary (print) magazine for writers of haiku and other verse [http://users.mullum.com.au/jbird/YM-about.html]

Geoff Goodfellow is a poet, public speaker and promoter of literacy and literature among people who normally don't come within cooee of it. His current collection is Punch On Punch Off, a 72 page collection detailing the brutality and savagery of working life and demonstrating its debilitating effects on blue-collar and white-collar working people and their families.

Simon Grove is a conservation biologist. ‘Mind What You Think’ is his first foray into non-scientific writing. He lives in Taroona, Hobart.

Marcus Harvey writes poetry and prose when he can find the time to spare. He lives in Hobart.

Jodie Hawthorne grew up in Wynyard and Rocky Cape on the northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia. She has spent many years studying, working and travelling in Asia. For the last eight years she has lived mainly in China and now calls Shangri-la (Degen Tibetan region) home. A collection of haiku celebrating the people and landscape of Degen is forthcoming from Pardalote Press.

Matt Hetherington was editor of Love & Fear: A Poetry Anthology (La Trobe University, 2003), and in 2004 his first collection of poetry, Surface, was published through PRECIOUS PRESS. This year a selection of aphorisms from his notebooks will appear in the Seattle-based Impassio Press collection In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing, and his most recent poetry appeared in Masthead and the Queensland Poetry Festival 2005 Anthology, spoken in one strange word.

Marshall Hryciuk has published 12 books of poetry, 6 of them haiku. He lives in Toronto Canada with his beautiful American wife, Karen Sohne (from Long Island NY) who also writes and publishes haiku. His press is called Imago Press, hers, red iron press.

Phil Ilton has published four collections, including More than Words, Capsules (1996) and Not Just On the Road (based on incidents from his solo bicycle ride around Australia). His poetry has appeared in over thirty journals including Overland, Imago and Envoi (UK). He’s won many awards and featured at the 2002 Australia Poetry Festival. He has had work translated into Chinese. In 1993 he co-edited Rhymes for the Times, an anthology of Australian poets.

Leanne Jaeger is a poet who lives in Hobart, Tasmania.

Mary Jenkins combines ecology and poetry. Her poem 'In Tidy Town' is one of a series critiqueing Tasmanian politics; inspired in part by the films of David Lynch which depict superficially immaculate towns with logging trucks rolling down back roads and undercurrents of madness and folly.

Billy Jones is a widely published poet. He lives in Queensland.

Jill Jones is a Sydney poet and writer. Her fifth full-length book, Broken/Open, was published by Salt Publishing in 2005, and was shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2005.

Cath Kenneally is a poet, reviewer and novelist. She lives in Adelaide.

Joan Kerr lives in Geelong where she works as a speech pathologist. Her work has been published in Australia, U.S. and the U.K.

Kim Kerze is an artist, poet; erstwhile musician, formerly of Hobart, he is now part of the Tasmanian diaspora & currently resides in an inner suburb of Melbourne.

Christina Kirkpatrick writes poetry and haiku, and is currently working on a first collection of poems. She lives in an untamed garden in Hobart. More of her haiku can be found in Watersmeet: haiku anthology (Pardalote Press, 2005).

Sharon Landeg writes poetry and prose. She lives in Launceston.

Kristen Lang lives in Sheffield, Tasmania, and has completed a PhD in poetry with Deakin University. She has poems published in Southerly, Space, LiNQ, Poetry Monash, four W, Woorilla, Hecate, Westerly, the anthology A Book of Evidence, and on Radio National’s PoeticA.

John Latta is the author of Breeze (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003) and Rubbing Torsos (Ithaca House, 1979).

Robin Loftus has published widely in Australian periodicals and newspapers. Her first collection, Flying Fish appeared in 1992, her second - BACKYARD COSMOS: new and selected poems - in 2000.

Tony London has a publishing history from the 70s and 80s that includes poetry in Meanjin, Westerly, Southerly, Quadrant, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, The Australian, The West Australian, and The Western Review, along with various other journals and broadcasts on the ABC.

Yve Louis’ most recent collection is The Yellow Dress, published by Five Islands Press in 2005.

Lorraine Marwood’s most recent book is that downhill yelling (Five Islands Press, November 2005), her second collection of children’s poetry.

Shane McCauley’s most recent collection is Glassmaker, a hard-cover collection from Sunline Press, 2005.

Gina Mercer recently migrated from Townsville to Hobart. She has taught creative writing and literature in universities for twenty years. She was General Editor of LiNQ for nine years. She has published a collection of poems, The Ocean in the Kitchen (Five Islands Press, 1999), a novel, Parachute Silk (Spinifex Press, 2001) plus two academic books.

Mark Miller has been writing poetry since 1980. He lives on the NSW coast.

Peter Murphy is a widely published Australian poet. He lives in Victoria.

Graham Nunn is a Brisbane based writer, current Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word (www.queenslandpoetryfestival.net) and founding member of performance group SpeedPoets. Graham’s first collection, A Zen Firecracker - selected haiku was released in 2003.  His latest collection, of haiku and haibun, Measuring the Depth, is published by Pardalote Press. Both titles are available by emailing the author at geenunn@yahoo.com.au or through the Pardalote Press website.

Esther Ottaway’s poems have been published in The Australian and in literary journals including Meanjin, Southerly, Blue Dog and Famous Reporter and have been arranged as contemporary jazz works. She was awarded an Arts Tasmania grant and a Varuna Fellowship in 2005. Esther’s major subject themes include music and musicians, pregnancy and motherhood, and the idiosyncrasies of Australian culture.

Guillermo Juan Parra was born in Cambridge, MA in 1970. He received an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. His poems and essays have been published in Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, 6x6, The CLR James Journal and CARVE. He lives in Boston and is editing an anthology of XX Century Venezuelan poetry in English translation.

Louis de Paor was born in Cork in 1961, and lived in Australia from 1987 to 1996, where he published a number of bi-lingual titles. He was granted a Writer’s Fellowship by the Australia Council in 1995. He is also the recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award 2000, the first poet in Irish to achieve that distinction. He lives in Galway.

Jillian Pattinson is a Melbourne-based writer.

Barbara Preston’s writing includes theatre scripts, children's fiction, short stories and poetry. In addition, a series of prose narratives were performed at the State Folk Festival, accompanied by prominent Australian traditional musicians. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and journals, been read on local radio and the ABC, and has been performed at the Canberra National Folk festival. She has been guest reader at city and country poetry events.

Saxby Pridmore is a widely published poet. He lives in Hobart.

Frances Rouse’s poems have appeared in literary journals over many years. Her unpublished collection Poems from the Crater was short-listed in the ’04 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. ABC Radio National and Radio Denmark have also featured her work.

Anna Ryan-Punch is a Melbourne writer whose poetry has appeared in publications including Quadrant, The Age, Voiceworks, and Going Down Swinging.

Carla Sari lives in North Carlton, Victoria. She enjoys writing all forms of poetry. She is also interested in reading and writing short fiction.

Henry Sheerwater is an artist, writer and editor. He lives in Hobart.

Edith Speers was born in Canada, and studied biochemistry before moving to Australia in 1974. She's a poet, teacher, editor and publisher, and manages Esperance Press, [http://www.esperancepress.com.au/] located in Dover, Tasmania.

Ted Sturges lives in Hobart. His essay ‘A Sort of Holiday’ won FAW Tasmania’s Margaret Giordano Non-Fiction Award, 2005.

Martina Taeker is a published poet and short story writer. She has travelled and worked extensively overseas, including in Japan. She teaches various writing courses at the WEA in Adelaide, as well as to community groups.

Joanna Taylor is working towards completing a collection of verse after a time away from writing. Her work has been previously published in journals including four W, Redoubt, Poetrix, and Verandah.

 Tim Thorne is the author of nine volumes of poetry, the most recent being Head and Shin (Walleah Press, August 2004). Tim was for many years the Director of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival. He is the managing editor of Cornford Press, and the Launceston correspondent for the national literary journal Overland.

George Toseski is a Sydney poet.

Lawrence Upton. Cornwall-based Poet. Co-director / co-convenor - since 2002 - of Writers Forum and Writers Forum Workshop. Directed Sub Voicive Poetry 1994-2005. Currently writing with composer John Levack Drever, making 8 channel electro-acoustic pieces [CROWDED 2004-5; CLOSE TO THE LITERAL 2005). Latest publication Wire Sculptures, Reality Street 2003. Forthcoming PICTURES, CARTOON STRIPS, 2006.

John Ward lives with his family on a small acreage with views down the Huon Valley to the Wilderness beyond. He is a member of FAW (Tasmania) where he has served on the committee and edited the Tascribe newsletter. His haiku appears in the Watersmeet: haiku anthology. He also writes poetry, short stories and personal history.

Kate Waterhouse is a Sydney writer. Five Islands Press will publish her first poetry collection in 2006.

John West is a prolific poet with an impressive publishing history. His poetry has appeared in newspapers and magazines world-wide, (nearly 600 poems in 100 publications, as well as ezines and his four collections). He has won several awards, including the Victorian Anticancer Council Poetry Prize in 1999 and the Melbourne Poets' Prize in 1998. His publications are Falling over Jogging, Stuttering Towards Love, (Walleah Press, 2000), Mal (Sidewalk) and All I ever wanted was a window (Pardalote Press).

Lucy Williams is a Melbourne poet. Her first collection of poems is Birthmarks (Five Islands Press). She is currently working on her second collection with the assistance of an Australia Council grant.

Jane Williams lives in Hobart where she writes poems and short stories. Her first collection of poems Outside Temple Boundaries (Five Islands Press) won the Anne Elder Award. Her second collection is The Last Tourist (2006 Five Islands Press). In 2005 she won the D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship. Jane's website address is www.janewilliams.zoomshare.com

Quendryth Young, a grandmother, who lives on the far north coast of New South Wales, is a retired cytologist - a career that spanned forty years. She co-authored My Days' Circle with two other poets in 1994, and published a collection of her own poetry, Naked in Sepia, which was awarded the Fast Books Best Book of Poetry Award for 2005. Her passion for haiku is accelerating.