39th issue, 12th April, 2006

Poems by

1. Rachelle Arlin Credo / Sea Blues
2. Donna Bamford / Obsession, My Brassiere
3. Neil McCarthy / Forget-me-not, For the summer, Replay
4. Ruth Arnison / After the Rain
5. Usha Kishore / Living in Exile
6. Oswald LeWinter / A Tale of our Time, Elegy, Lago Maggiore
7. Peter Austin / Bad Times Pass
8. John Murphy / Easter Island
9. Bill Cotter / Boy in Sand
10. Betty Ann Matthews / Finding Love
11. John O'Connor / Station, Time
12. Peter Olds / Letter to Hone Tuwhare

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Feature! Book Reviews.

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About the Authors

SALLY FRANICEVICH is a public servant living in Auckland, New Zealand. Her work has previously appeared in "Moondance" USA. BRIAN ROSS: Brian is twenty-nine and lives in Scotland. He has almost fifty publications to his name - from humour (Defenestration) to horror (Thirteen), mystery (Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine) to mainstream (Outercast). He appears in the anthology, Read By Dawn, alongside horror luminary Ramsey Campbell. He is married, both to his wife and his words. ALAN WARREN lives and writes in New Zealand. BOYD WIDGER lives and writes in Hamburg, NY, USA. His work has been published widely, including in past isues of Southern Ocean Review. ALEX KEEGAN is a prolific writer of stories and crime fiction. He lives in England. JOHN C ROSS lives in Palmerston North, New Zealand. RACHELLE ARLIN CREDO Lives and writes in the Phillipines. DONNA BAMFORD lives and writes in Canada. 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. RUTH ARNISON started life in Oamaru and has lived in various South Island and English towns since. She is now settled in Dunedin with Barry and their two teenage sons. Her work has previously appeared in Takahe, Southern Ocean Review, Current Accounts and Cadenza. PROF DR. OSWALD C WINTER is Senior editor - Botteghe Oscure, contributing editor, Ygdrasil and author a number of books of poems and essays. Nominated for many prizes including the International Rilke Prize, 1997. More than 100 poems published in many journals and translations into eight languages. JOHN MURPHY lives and writes in Victoria, Australia. WILLIAM COTTER lives and writes in Victoria, Australia. He has published thee books of poetry and his poems have been publshed in magazines in Australia. BETTY ANN MATTHEWS lives and writes in Nelson, New Zealand. Her work has been published widely in New Zealand. JOHN O'CONNOR is a Christchurch (NZ) poet and publisher. His work has been published extensively and he has had several collections of his poetry published. PETER OLDS lives and writes in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has published many books of poetry and his work has been published in many magazines since the 1960's. Presently publishing a Broadsheet series of poems by well known writers (The Broadsheet company). 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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