34th issue, 12th January, 2005

Southern Ocean Review



Notes on Contributors

Stories by


  1. John Go/Armand Gloriosa / I Was in Jail, And You Visited Me
  2. Alex Keegan / Circumstantial Evidence
  3. C. J. Taylor / The Cavity
  4. D. C. Calvert / A Pint of Pain
  5. Charles Ordine / Without Children
  6. Fiona Tunnicliff / Hockey One


Poems by

  1. Kay McKenzie Cooke / Conversationalists, Like a Tree
  2. Iain Britton / Whole in One
  3. Janet Buck / Mounting Tablespoons of Grief
  4. Daryl Bredenkamp / Jock's Lingerie, Into the Night
  5. Isha Wagner / I am "The Scream"
  6. Heather Diprose / Ran into You Again, Not Quie Ready at Seven
  7. Tony Beyer / Club Apocalpse, Island Night
  8. Rob Allan / Song to a Maniototo Spring, In Praise of Spring
  9. Mark Forman / Waiting
  10. Catherine Owen / The Scattering, The Letter
  11. Gary Langford / She, Boned and Tongued
  12. Michael Spring / Wheat Field with Crows, Dog Love
  13. Betty Ann Matthews / Just Loves the Sun, Just Glancing
  14. Heather Talbott / A Date with Jack Daniels, Missing Pieces
  15. Jules Leigh Koch / Finished, Eulogy
  16. C. L. Walker / Conservation Piece
  17. Tommy Frank O'Connor / The Boss-Maker

Feature! Book Reviews.


About the Authors

JOHN GO/ARMAND GLORIOSA was born and raised in the Phillipines but now lives in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
ALEX KEEGAN is a prolific writer in the UK, and teacher in the field of short fiction. His stories have been published widely in various publications throughout the world. He has also published several crime novels. He is the editor of Quark magazine. <7thquarkmagazine.com> C. J. TAYLOR lives and writes in New Zealand.
CRAIG CALVERT has been ghostwriting for a former Fortune 500 CEO cum Tony Robbins wannabe. Has travelled 27 countries with stacks of material published under others' names. Married ten years. Lives in USA.
CHARLES ORDINE is an attorney with the US Environmental Protection Agency in the city of Seattle, Washington State, USA. Has 25 stories accepted for publication including the Chattahoochee Review, Confrontation, Folio, Writers Forum and Rosebud.
FIONA TUNNICLIFF is an expat New Zealander now living in Central Victoria, Australia.
KAY McKENZIE COOKE lives and writes in Dunedin, New Zealand and has had many of her poems published in a variety of publications. A book of her poetry, 'Feeding the Dogs', was published by University of Otago Press recently.
IAIN BRITTON is Director of Maori studies, Kings School, Remuera, Auckland. His work has been published widely in New Zealand. His poetry can be easily accessed online via the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre. Overseas literary publications include Links, Manifold, Iota and Orbis (UK) and Slope 16, The Drunken Boat, Conspire, Stirring, Front Street Review, nyc Big City (USA) and Jacket 22 (Aust), Tinfish, Free Verse, Snow Monkey (USA) and Carillon, Fire (UK) and Masthead (Aust).
JANET BUCK is a three-time Pushcart Nominee and the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has recently appeared in Three Candles, PoetryBay, Red River Review, Runes, Stirring, The Concrete Wolf, Branches, The Carriage House Review, Facets, The Circle, Sand to Glass, The American Muse, and hundreds of journals world-wide. In 2002, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in Artemis, The Montserrat Review, Recursive Angel, Apples & Oranges, Pig Iron Malt, Gertrude, The Pedestal Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Recent awards include Sol Magazine's 2001 Poem of the Year, The 2001 Kota Press Anthology Prize, and The Thunder Rain Award. Janet's newest e-book Ash Tattoos, a collection of poetry on the terrorist attacks and the aftermath of war, is now available from The ZeBook Company:
DARYL BREDENKAMP lives and writes in South Africa where he says 'there are no literary magazines'. Internet publication included Mobius and some anthologies of poetry.com. After a break in writing has recommenced in 2004.
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.
HEATHER DIPROSE has completed a BA in English at Otago University. Heather plans to apply for the masters of creative writing at Victoria Unuiversity, Wellington, NZ.
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. He has a number of collections of poetry to his credit.
ROB ALLAN: Rob lives and writes in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, New Zealand. Poetry is his art, writing about the 'here and now'. Published widely.
MARK FORMAN lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand.
CATHERINE OWEN has published widely in Canadian periodicals. Her books include Somatic: The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Ed. TO 98) and The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak and Wynn TO 02). Cusp/detritus will be published by Beach Holme (BC) in 05. These lyrics are from MISC, an MS in progress.
GARY LANGFORD presently lives in Sydney asa lecturer but intends to return to full time writing, returning to to Christchurch, NZ where he was born. He has a recent collection of poetry from Hazard Press, Lunch in the Storyteller's Restaurant. In the 1970's, Gary Langford was a prolific writer and editor in Christchurch. He is the author of 24 books including 9 novels, 3 collections of stories and 9 of poetry - mostly in Australia.
MICHAEL SPRING has published poems in Atlanta Review, Midwest Quarterly, Octavo, NEO (Azores, Portugal), ThePedestal, Poems Niederngasse (SW), Saber (UK), Southern Ocean Review (NZ), Verse Libre Quarterly, and others. His first book, BLUE CROW (Lit Pot Press), has recently been translated into Portuguese, for a bilingual edition, by the University of the Azores.
BETTY ANN MATTHEWS lives and writes in Nelson, New Zealand. Her work has been published widely in New Zealand.
HEATHER TALBOTT lives and writes in Timaru, New Zealand
JULES LEIGH KOCH was born in Sydney in 1958 and raised in Adelaide. Presently a part time School Service Officer at Ashfield Special School and a parent. Has lived and worked as a gardener, house parent, farmhand and in childcare and also lived and worked on the North Island of New Zealand. Founding member of the Kensington / Norwood writing group in 1986 and along time member of the SA Writers Centre. he has been published in Redoubt, Matoid, Southerly, Hermes and Going Down Swinging.
C. L. WALKER lives and writes in Hamilton, New Zealand.
TOMMY FRANK O'CONNOR is a native of Co. Kerry, Ireland. His books is print are an adult novel, The Poacher's Apprentice (Marino), a children's novel, Kee Kee Cup and Tok (Wynkin De Worde) a short story collection, Loose Head (Doghouse) and a poetry collection, Attic Warpipes (Bradshaw Books). His works for the stage have been performed at Siamsa tire, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland.
TREVOR REEVES: Editor and Publisher of Southern Ocean Review and poet - writer of short stories that have appeared in print and electronic magazines widely.
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 and 2001 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: www.arts.org.nz



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