33rd issue, 12th October, 2004

Poems by

1. Ron McGurk / South Wairarapa
2. Basim Furat / A Cold Lesson at the end of Love
3. Isha Wagner / 2003, We Sorta Loved Each Other
4. Leicester Kye / A Person Two, If not the Sun, Sun's Gold Greeting, Consider the Battle
5. Tony Beyer / August, The Rescue
6. Heather Talbott / Green Sea
7. Robert James Berry / The Barrier, Mihiwaka,
8. Lindsay Smith / To My Dead Dog
9. Lisa Marie Brodsky / The Horse and the Puddle
10. Scott Holstad / Choice
11. Ramesh Doohan / Claude's Cigarette, Walls of Louvre, Day in Autumn
12. Jan Fitzgerald / Yatton Park, Firelight
13. Nassau Hedron / Patience
14. Peter Olds / Walking Down Elder Street
15. Betty Ann Matthews / I Wanted you to Smile, Are They all the Same?

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Feature! Book Reviews.

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About the Authors

BARRY SOUTHAM: Lives and writes in Christchurch, New Zealand. Has had many poems and stories published internationally, three plays produced, two collections of poetry and a collection of stories. His poetry and stories have appeared in many magazines. MARK PIRIE has completed an M.A. at Otago University. Has a number of short stories and poems published. Publisher and editor of Headworx publishers and editor of JAAM (Just Another Art Movement). His latest book of poems, Bullet Poems in four rounds has just been recently published. ROBERT JAMES BERRY lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand. His first volume, 'Smoke' was published by UPM Press in 2000. M J Charika lives in England. She grew up in Sri Lanka and misses the warmth of it terribly. She is new to writing fiction and has previously been published once, in LongStoryShort. PETER CORBETT is an inhabitant of planet earth. GLYNIS GERTSCH was born in 1949 in Johanasburg, South Africa. She has lived in Switzerland since 1971. She has two daughters and a grandson and works as a full time receptionist and translator. She has been broadcast on BBC and published in various small magazines in England including Cadenza and BuzzWords. Shortlisted for the Fish Prize and won prizes in a competition in Zurich. GEG O'FLAHERTY lives in a particularly unpleasant part of the UK that provides a location for this story and many others he has written. ANCA L. SZILAGYI has a B.A. in English literature and archaelogy from McGill University. Her work has appeared in Hotel, Montage, Scrivener Creative Review, the multi media art exhibit Fire with Water, and on Tangmonkey.com. G. EMIL REUTTER is a citizen of the world, somewhere. Probably USA. CHRIS BLEACH is a 46 year-old father of two from Halifax, West Yorkshire in the north of England. He writes about business for a living but prefers to write about life. RON McGURK has had a couple of poems published in the first edition of Hot Ink (the Massey University Creative Writing anthology). And earlier of 'South Wairarapa' won a prize in a Listener competition but wasn't published. BASIM FURAT is a refugee from his homeland, Iraq, living in New Zealand. This contribution is an exerpt from his book, published by HeadworX (Wellington), Here and There (reviewed here). ISHA WAGNER moved to Dunedin from Auckland, New Zealand where her ancestors arrived in 1880. She also writes short stories and novels and has had work published in NZ including in past issues of Southern Ocean Review. LEICESTER KYLE lives in Millerton,and old coal-mining town in the hills of North Buller, New Zealand. He writes poetry, has done some editing, and is involved in the establishment of a reserve for the protection of the indigenous flora and fauna. PETER OLDS is a former Burns Fellow of Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. Since 1971 he has had poetry published in many New Zealand magazines and poetry anthologies. His selected poems has been published and is reviewed here. TONY BEYER lives, writes and teaches in Auckland New Zealand. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines in New Zealand over the past 35 years. HEATHER TALBOTT lives in Timaru, New Zealand. She completed Masssey University's Creative writing paper last year and has been published in Extraverse and Takahe. ROBERT JAMES BERRY: A Londoner who was living is Penang Island, in West Malaysia where he lectured in English, Literature and Language at the University of Science there. Was living back in London. Has had poems published in England, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Sweden, Trinidad. He now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. A book of his work is forthcoming. LINDSAY SMITH is a retired school teacher living in Rockhampton, Australia. His first book of poems, "Skyhook" was published in 1971. His work has been published widely including in anthologies. LISA MARIE BRODSKY is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin under the tutelage of Jesse Lee Kercheval, Ronald Wallace and Amy Quan Barry. SCOTT HOLSTAD has published fourteen books of poetry and has appeared in hundreds of magazines in dozens of countries, including Hawaii Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Arkansas Review, Pacific Review, Lullwater Review and Southern Review. RAMESH DOOHAN is a native of British Columbia and finds true joy and passion in writing. Life is a chasm of memories that have been recreated in his poems and stories. Poetry has appeared in Bay Review, Word Salad, The Beadth, Crimson Feet and many others. JAN FITZGERALD was born in 1950 and published in NZ literary journals under maiden name, Jan Coad. More recently accepted/published by Poetry NZ, Takahe, Bravado, Spin, kokako, brief, Valley Micropress. Winner, Rotorua Daily Post Short Story 2000, third place getter, Whakatane Friends of the Library Short Story 2004. Multi finalist in BOP Telecom Arts Awards. Workd in a Taurangi hospital. NASSAU HEDRON is a freelance writer and editor in Toronto, Canada. He is partial to malls, hotels, airports, and other man-made environments. He loves fast food and shiny objects. He prefers bright colours to subdued ones, passion to equanimity, and directness to to subtelty. Favourite actor, Vincent Price. TREVOR REEVES: Editor and Publisher of Southern Ocean Review and poet - writer of short stories that have appeared in print and electronic magazines widely. Recent book of poetry published "The Poetry Book to Cuddle up in Bed With" JUDITH WOLFE lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is an artist, designer and sculptor. She has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and some of her works have been in travelling exhibitions overseas. Recent exhibitions at the Empire Cinema, guest artist at the Wanaka Art Group Exhibition, August 1997 and exhibited in the Warbirds Over Wanaka air show exhibition, Easter, 1998, and the Cleveland Art Awards, Dunedin, October 1998, and 2001 Also the Columba College exhibition 1999. Two exhibitions, 2000, 2001 and 2003 at the Community Art Gallery, Dunedin NZ. Prolific book illustrator including "In the Grip of Evil" Reeves/Wolfe, History of Cobb and co and Dear Pal (stories of the Maniototo). Home Page

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