37th Issue, 12th October, 2005

Poems by

1. Tony Beyer / Europa, Winter Kingfisher, That Old Time Religion, Old China.
2. Linda Benninghoff / Hyannisport
3. Rebecca Lu Kiernan / Jepatio Three
4. Neil McCarthy / This is Not the Night, Your Shoes, Peaches in the Autumn
5. Michael Spring / Raven's Fog
6. Sam Silva / The Lives of Other Things
7. J. J. Steinfeld / Life Expectancy, The Word Monstrosity
8. Jennifer Crivlare / Forsaken Dawn
9. Tim Jones / At Lake Sylvan
10. Ramesh Doohan / Rhea's Court
11. Boyd Widger / A Chance to Suffer Grief Too Great
12. Betty Ann Matthews / Much More than we Do, Only Glue
13. Sarah Said / Visual Clarity
14. Jesse Ferguson / Halifax, December 1917; Goya's Witches Sabbath
15. Isha Wagner / Awareness

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Feature! Book Reviews, Launching.

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About the Authors

HRISTO BOEV lives in Bulgaria. He is a sworn translator and teacher of English as a foreign language; writer of short stories, poems and plays. A translated novel is due to be published in New York shortly. DAVID GOLDSTEIN lives and writes in Oregan, USA. RON RODGERS lives and writes in Australia. A pensioner, he has had work published in Overland, Readers World, FreeXpresSion and Heist. TONY BEYER now lives in New Plymouth, New Zealand, where he teaches at the local co-ed. His work has been widely published in many journals and he has published several books of poetry. LINDA BENNINGHOFF lives in New York, USA and has published two chapbooks The Street where I was a Child, and Departures. Linda has an MA in creative English with an emphasis on creative writing. REBECCA LU KIERNAN lives on the Gulf Coast in Australia. She has published in numerous magazines in Australia and the USA and, of course, NZ. NEIL McCARTHY lives in Galway, Ireland. His work has appeared in many magazines around the world including Te Dalhousie Review and The New York Quarterly. MICHAEL SPRING is a cob house builder and poetry editor living in rural Oregon, USA. His poems have previously appeared in Atlanta Review,The Dublin Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, NEO (Azores/Portugal), Octavo,The Pedestal Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, and others. He's recently won the 2004 Robert Graves Award (Imago Poetry/UK). He is the author of two books of poems: blue crow (Lit Pot Press, Inc., 2003), and Mudsong Pygmy Forest Press, 2005). SAM SILVA lives and writes in North Carolina, USA. J. J. STEINFELD lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He has published a novel and nine short story collections, the previous three collections by Gaspereau Press: Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized? (1999), Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown (2000), and Would You Hide Me? (2003). His stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals, and over thirty of his one-act and full-length plays have been performed in various forms, ranging from staged readings to full productions. JENNIFER CRIVLARE is a 29-year-old U.S. Air Force Veteran currently living in Iowa City, IA. Four years ago she was forced to drop out of college due to a severe medical condition. Since then, she has concentrated more on her "hobby" of creative writing. She mostly writes poetry, but does from time to time write essays and short stories. Her work has been published in the Salt Lake Tribune, American Legion Magazine, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Poems Niedergasse, Saucy Vox, Starry Night Review, and Prairie Poetry. She was also a featured poet in the Fall/Winter issue of the Muse Apprentice Guild. TIM JONES lives and works in Wellngton, New Zealand. He has published two books; of poetry and short fiction. His work has appeared widely. NIKHIL DOHAN an amateur poet and short fiction writer hailing from the city of Vancouver, Canada. His works have previously appearred in an amateur poet and short fiction writer hailing from the city of vancouver. His works have previously appeared in Southern Ocean Review, Taj Mahal Review,Word Salad, Hudson Review, Attic Magazine and Reflections,to name a few. BOYD WIDGER lives in USA and has contributed many poems and stories to Southern Ocean Review and other magazines. BETTY ANN MATTHEWS lives and writes in Nelson, New Zealand. Her work has been published widely in New Zealand. SARAH SAID is a native of the Chicago land area and is twenty two years old. A teacher at Richards High School in the Chicago suburbs, Sarah has a Bachelor's of Arts degree in English Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the Director of Educational Affairs at Spirit Magazine: A Magazine for the Diverse Woman. She is the writer of the Focus Poetry Collection. Along with poetry Sarah enjoys hiking, unplanned road trips, photography, cooking, and of course teaching. JESSE FERGUSON is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa, raised in Cornwall, Ontario. He is an associate member of The League of Canadian Poets. His work has appeared in the University of Ottawa’s magazines Nexus, Innuendo and Yawp. Some of his poems also appear in such Canadian, American and International publications as: Yalla, Redfez, Ygdrasil, Stridemagazine, High Altitude Poetry, Hammered Out, The Big Tex[t], Magazine Shiver, Word Riot, Spire, Zygote, Poems Niederngasse, Mosaic Minds, Spillway Review, Jones Av. Many more are appearing soon. 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. MARK PIRIE lives, works and writes in Wellington, New Zealand. Publisher of JAAM magazine and various books of poetry and stories, anthologies, etc. His work has been published in many magazines in NZ and overseas over the last 10 years. BARRY SOUTHAM lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has published a number of books of poetry and a book of short stories. He has had work published in many NZ and overseas magazines. His latest book is of poems and stories, called "Footprints on a Gravel Road", and is available now. TREVOR REEVES began writing in the late 1960's and has three collections, published in the 1970's, to his credit. Editor and publisher of Caveman Press and now Square One Press, he is a co-editor of Southern Ocean Review with Judith Wolfe. His writing has appeared throughout the world and includes fiction as well as poetry and critical writing and reviews. A collection of stories, "Breaker Breaker and other stories" appeared this in 2001. His poems, "A poetry book to cuddle up in bed with" appeared in 2003. JUDITH WOLFE lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is an artist, designer and sculptor and has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand. 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 the Columba College exhibition 1999. Exhibitions throughout Central Otago are planned. Her arts site is here