Contributors




























Judy Annear is a writer, curator, and adjunct at the University of NSW, Sydney. She was author and curator of The photograph and Australia 2015 (AGNSW, Sydney), and initiator and one of 16 writers for Exquisite consequences 2016 (effefe,net). She has been published in Cordite Poetry Review and Australian Poetry Journal. See judyannear.com.
 
Morose, counter-intuitive, something of a zaney, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary landscape, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, grinning cheerfully, at the wheel of his 1955 Jaguar D-type, El Cid. It is this image that also carries in its train the stories of later suffering—the affairs, the court appearances, the bad teeth—and, speaking of teeth, the beautiful poems wrenched from the teeth of despair & written on the wrist of happiness “where happiness happens to like its poems written best” (in his inordinate phrase). Shearsman have published his Selected Poems &, more recently, Species Of Spaces.
 
Chris Edwards has published several collage-based poetry books (utensils in a landscape, People of Earth, After Naptime) (Vagabond Press), a ‘mistranslation’ of Stéphane Mallarmé’s ‘Un Coup de dés’ (A Fluke) (Monogene and Jacket) and a ‘rendition’ of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus (O Sonata) (Vagabond Press). He lives in Sydney.

Kait Fenwick is a writer and poet whose work explores the transitioning queer body through feminist theory. Kait is published nationally, most notably within the Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry and Cordite Poetry Review. In July 2018, Kait aims to begin a Research Higher Degree at The University of Newcastle exploring the disconnect between queer bodies and rigidity of syntax.
 
Toby Fitch is the author of poetry books Rawshock, Jerilderies and, most recently, The Bloomin’ Notions of Other & Beau. He lives in Sydney where he works as an editor, teacher, and etc.

Joe Fletcher is the author of the full-length collection, The Hatch (Brooklyn Arts Press) and two chapbooks: Already It Is Dusk (Brooklyn Arts Press) and Sleigh Ride (Factory Hollow Press). Other work of his can be found at jubilat, Octopus, Slope, Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Hollins Critic, Puerto del Sol, and online at joefletcherpoetry.com. He teaches writing and literature at the University of North Carolina and in the North Carolina prison system, and he is the Managing Editor of the William Blake Archive.
 
Jane Gibian is a poet and librarian whose work has been widely anthologised, most recently in Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher and Wattman) and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (Hunter). Her publications include tidemark (Vagabond Press Rare Object series) and Ardent (Giramondo). She recently co-edited an issue of Cordite Poetry Review: Land.
 
Jake Goetz is a poet from Sydney who is currently based in Brisbane. His poetry has  previously appeared in Australian journals such as Cordite, Plumwood Mountain, Rabbit and Mascara. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) with First Class Honours from Griffith University and is the editor of Marrickville Pause (https://marrickvillepause.wordpress.com).
 
Marty Hiatt is from Melbourne, living in Berlin. He runs bulky news press with John Hand and Tim Wright.
 
Chris Holdaway is a poet/editor from New Zealand, where he directs Compound Press. He is the author of HIGH-TENSION/FASHION (Greying Ghost, 2018).
 
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's most recent book is, as editor, women : poetry : migration [an anthology]theenk Books, out in February 2018. Her poetry collection <<terrain grammar>> is forthcoming with theenk.  Her current poetry work in progress is titled Plan B Audio. She also has an essay forthcoming with Wordgathering. Reach her via janejoritznakagawa at gmail dot com.  

Sam Langer is from Melbourne (Australia). He lives in Berlin. His published works include Law You Can Eat (Munted Beyond Press, 2012) and "24 Pages Of Floating Rats With Tiny Hammers" (in VierSome #3, Veer Books, 2015). See http://typischeak.wordpress.com.
 
Greg McLaren is a poet and sometime critic. His books include Australian ravens (Puncher & Wattmann, 2016), After Han Shan (Flying Islands, 2012) and The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead (Puncher & Wattmann, 2007).
 
Kathrin Schmidt was born in 1958 in Thuringia in East Germany. As well as working as a psychologist, editor and social scientist, she has received numerous literary awards for both her poetry and her prose. Following a stroke in 2002, she had to relearn speech and much of her writing since then has explored illness and the experience of bodily loss of control. Her novel Du Stirbst Nicht (You Are Not Dying) won the prestigious German Book Prize in 2009. Her most recent book is waschplatz der kühlen dinge: Gedichte (washing place of the cool things: Poems), published in March 2018.
Jamie Osborn founded Cambridge Student PEN and for two years was poetry editor at The Missing Slate. His translations of Assyrian Iraqi refugee writing have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, and he his poems, essays and translations (including of other work by Kathrin Schmidt) are published or forthcoming in PN Review, Poetry London, Blackbox Manifold, and elsewhere. A selection of his poems based on experiences in Namibia and on the Greek island of Chios feature in New Poetries VII (Carcanet). He now lives in Norwich.
 
Emily Stewart is poetry editor at Giramondo Publishing. She is the author of three chapbooks, Like, Australia's Largest DIY and The Internet Blue. Her full-length collection Knocks was published by Vagabond Press in 2016.

Ann Vickery teaches Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Melbourne. She is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language   Writing (2000), Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry (2007), The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (2014), and Devious Intimacy (2015). She co-authored The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (2009) with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman, co-edited Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultines (2009) with Margaret Henderson, and co-edited Poetry and the Trace (2013) with John Hawke.