45th issue, 12th October, 2007

Poems by

1. Owen Bullock / The Mall, Votes
2. Peter Olds / A Piece of Buttered Bread, Butcher Shop
3. M. Butterflies Katz / Metamorphosis
4. Betty Ann Matthews / A Bunch of Cherries
5. Tolu Ogunlesi / Men
6. Dolores Guglielmo / The Gardener
7. Gemma Rowsell / Decency on Albert Street
8. Giorgina Angela / Love and Hate you between it all
9. Sam Silva / A Draught Between the Harvest
10. Will Fraser / In an Oriental Vein, The Big Picture
11. Christy Gibb / Lucy Rose
12. Faith de Savigne / High and Dry

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Feature! Book Reviews.

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About the Authors

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 collections subsequently. TERRY SANVILLE lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife, Marguerite Costigan (his in-house editor) and two cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time and is also an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist. Since 2005, Terry’s short stories have appeared in more than 35 literary and commercial journals and anthologies including, R-kv-ry Journal, The Arabesques Review, La Fenetre Journal, Falling Star Magazine, and Storyteller. MARTIN JONES - born in Zambia, bred in New Zealand, now lives in Christchurch. Has had stories published in magazines in New Zealand and Japan. Likes skydiving. MATTHEW SMITH is a 25-yearold writer from South Australia who has mainly had poetry published and is looking to build on his prose skills. MOLLY SMITH lives in Elizabethtown, Indiana where she is attending college to obtain a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English. She has enjoyed reading and writing her entire life, but has just recently began writing seriously. This past year she has had several short stories published in various online magazines including: Bewildering Stories, Events Quarterly and Burst. LAURA SOLOMON was born in New Zealand in 1974, and has lived in London since 1999. She has an honours degree in English Literature (Victoria University, NZ, 1997) and a Masters degree in Computer Science (University of London, 2003) and currently works as an IT consultant. She has published two novels in New Zealand with Tandem Press: 'Black Light' (1996) and 'Nothing Lasting' (1997). Her first play, 'The Dummy Bride', was produced as part of the Wellington Fringe Festival, and her second, based on her short story, 'Sprout', was part of the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her short story 'Sprout' won a prize in the 2004 Bridport International Short Story competition and her short story 'The Most Ordinary Man in the World' won a prize in the same competition in 2005. Another story is to be included in the next Pretend Genius anthology 'New Short Stories 1' after entering the Willesden Herald Competition which was judged by Zadie Smith. Other short stories and poems appear in New Zealand magazines. JAMES STARK recently completed a writing program at the University of Washington, USA, where he lives in Seattle with his wife and children. His work has appeared in Pulse magazine, SNReview, spoiledink, and wordriot. He is delighted to join SOR. STEVE ADAMS lives and writes in Auckland New Zealand. COLIN FLEMING'S work has appeared in MOJO, The Villiage Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle and Sight and Sound among other publications. He has completed his first novel, He lives in USA. LEE REYNOLDSON is anew writer based in the UK whos does most of his writitng at Alex Keegan's Boot Camp, a hard-working online community of writers. OWEN BULLOCK is a New Zealand writer living in NZ. He is also involved in editing (Kokako) and publishing other writers. M.BUTTERFLIES KATZ is a native of the USA now living and writing in New Zealand. BETTY ANN MATTHEWS lives and writes in Nelson, New Zealand. Her work has been published widely in New Zealand, including in Southern Ocean Review. TOLU OGUNLESI was born in 1982. He is the author of a collection of poetry Listen to the Geckos Singing From a Balcony (Bewrite Books, UK, 2004). His fiction and poetry have appeared in Wasafiri, The Obituary Tango (Caine Prize Anthology 2006), Sable, Orbis, Eclectica, and elsewhere, and are forthcoming in Tipton Poetry Journal and Jelly Paint. In 2007 he won a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize. He currently lives in Lagos, Nigeria. GEMMA ROWSELL lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand. GIORGINA ANGELA lives and writes in Australia and her work has been published in magazines across Australia and on line. SAM SILVA lives and writes in North Carolina, USA. WILL FRASER lives and writes in NSW, Australia. CHRISTY GIBBS was born in Auckland but is now living in Hamilton where she is pursuing a degree in English and Religious Studies at the University of Waikato. This is the first publication of her poetry and she intends to start writing novels once she finishes writing essays for university. Her interests besides reading and writing include swimming, Paganism and Japanese animation. 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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