38th issue, 12th January, 2006

Poems by

1. Rebecca Lu Kiernan / Rummy Park, 2, 1.
2. Isha Wagner / Violets in London, The Temporary Athiest
3. Dan Moran / The Kingdom
4. Chris Harlow / Elterwater
5. Robert James Berry / The Jewish cemetery, South
6. Patrick Walsh / Balancing Acts
7. Betty Ann Matthews / Matriarch
8. Gill McEvoy / Cemetery for the War Dead, N.Holland, Closing the Kitchen
9. T. S. Kerrigan / Mt Dark People, Elegy for an Actress
10. Will Fraser / Avoiding the Bends, 21st Century World Foreign Policy
11. Tony Beyer / The Secret Drinker, Domestics

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Feature! Book Reviews.

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About the Authors

GARY BECK'S recent fiction has appeared in 3AM Magazine, Fullosia Press, EWG Presents, Nuvein Magazine, Vincent Brothers Review, The Journal, Short Stories Monthly, L'Intrigue Magazine, Babel Magazine and Bibliophilos. His poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. He is a writer/director of award-winning social issue video documentaries. DAVID KING lives in Norfolk, England. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio and has appeared in many print and online magazines, including Carve Magazine, Eclectica, Cadenza, Southern Ocean Review, The New Writer, 7th Quark, and World Wide Writers, where he won the $5,000 award for best short story of the year.He is Fiction Editor of BuzzWords (www.buzzwordsmagazine.co.uk ) a UK literary magazine. RON RODGERS is an author, pensioner and his work has been previously published in Southern Ocean Review, Overland, Readers World, Free Expression and Heist. He lives in Australia ROBERT JAMES BERRY lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand. His first volume, 'Smoke' was published by UPM Press in 2000. BOYD WIDGER lives and writes in USA and has contributed many poems and astories to magazines including Southern Ocean Review. DAVID GOLDSTEIN lives and writes in Oregan, USA. His work has appeared perviously in SOR. VICKI THORNTON lives and writes in the scenic Dandenong Ranges. She is the author of four children’s books and her poetry, articles and short stories has appeared in various publications including Pendulum, Tamba, Divan, The Mozzie, Blue’s Country Magazine, Woorilla and mod-piece. 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. 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. 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. DAN MORAN is Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York, the county where Whitman was born. His 6th collection will be published by The University of Salzburg in 2006. More if you wish about him: www.danielthomasmoran.net CHRIS HARLOW is Head of Visual & Performing Arts at Safety Bay Senior High School in Western Australia. His oetry has been broadcast on the radio and opublished in na variety of newspapers and journals including Weekend Australin Review, Orbis, Freemantle Arts Review, LINQ, and Mattoid. He received his PhD in Ethics and Literary Theory from Murdoch University in 2002. PATRICK WALSH was born in Cork, Ireland. He is a graduate ofgraduate of UCC. Published in local Cork & Mallow Journals. Has read on radio. In 2004, work in Facets,Antipatico,Moonwort Review,The Surface-on-line, Aught, PW-Review and Dead MuleWork due in Carillon Magazine . GILL McEVOY lives in Chester, UK and runs a poetry society, a monthly poetry workshop and is a tutor in creative writing. Gill's work has been widely published in small press magazines in the UK and on line. T S KERRIGAN lives in Los Angeles, California, USA. His work has been published in many magazines and anthologies in America and Europe. WILL FRASER lives and writes in Blackheath, NSW, Australia. TONY BEYER: Austhor and poet with a number of collections of his poetry published, also poetry published in many magazines in NZ and worldwide, Lives in New Plymouth NZ. TONY O'BRIEN grew up in Dunedin and has lived in Auckland since 1978, where he works as a mental health nurse. He has stories in the anthologies ‘At Home’ (Random House) and ‘best New Zealand Fiction Volume 2’ (Random House), 2005. Other stories have been broadcast on National Radio, and published in Glottis, JAAM, and Takahe. 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". Due out May 2006, "Nazi Holocaust for Beginners" with Judith Wolfe. 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. Three 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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