47th issue, 12th April, 2008

Poems by

1. Ram Mehta / The Nature, Riding Two Horses
2. Betty Ann Matthews/ One Last Time, The Shock
3. Jan Hutchison / Lingering After Summer, Depressed by your Absence
4. Arun Gaur / Holding a Tress
5. Patricia Prime / Garden of the Happy Dead, Harvesting Wheat in the Alpilles Plain
6. Mark Pirie / Joan of Arc
7. Ian C. Smith / Black Cloud
8. Michael Johnson / Jesus Walks
9. C. A. Morrow / The East Wind
10. Mike Collins / Haiku
11. Peter Roberts / Jericho
12. Will Fraser / Plan C
13. Jules Leigh Koch / Transition
14. John O'Connor / Piano Music, A Bridge of Sparrows
15. Chris Parsons / Rite of Passage
16. Sam Silva / What Began with a Snowy Mountain
17. Richard Dingles / Last Official Day of Summer
18. Barry Southam / Haikus

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Feature! Book Reviews.

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About the Authors

D. J. O'CALLAGHAN lives and writes in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and is an emerging writer who writes stories which are different. DAVID GOLDSTEIN is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and the University of Michigan Law School. In the 1970's, he was the Deputy Defender for the State of Michigan, and argued more than 50 Constitutional cases before the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. His short fiction has appeared widely in publications such as Confrontation, Prague Review, South Carolina Review, Paris Transcontinental, Takahe, Catalyst, and Southern Ocean Review. YVETA SHANFELDOVA is a New Jersey based Czech journalist and writer. My credits include a poetry book, Night Jugular Shaft (Host 2006, Brno, Czech Republic), stories (Rattappalax, Conte), and newspaper articles. She was an English Major at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music. RYNAE BUTLER is an artist living in Tauranga with poetry previously published in Takahe, Spin and Bravado. SUZANNE NIELSON teaches creative writing at Metropolitan State University and The Loft Literary Center.? She writes a quarterly column, ?Cool Dead People,? for Doubledarepress, an online literary journal, which also appears in print through Whistling Shade Literary Journal.? Her book of short fiction titled The Moon Behind the 8-Ball & Other Stories was released in October, 2007. RUPERT MERKIN left the USA a lifetime ago and has now settled in London with a quill, two dogs and a monkey, but no ink. THOMAS BOULAN assists the homeless in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and belongs to a writing group that meets in a pathology library at a local hospital. His work has or will appear in a number of print and online journals, including Carriage House Review, Natural Bridge, jerseyworks, Pindeldyboz, The MacGuffin, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, keepgoing and Taj Mahal Review. Thomas also likes to mess around with digital photography, and enjoys finding a great looking mannequin in a store window. Dr. RAM MEHTA splits his time between India and North America. He visited France on a cultural mission in 1989. He also visited UK, Scotland and Ireland. He is a life member of the World Academy of Arts & Culture and attended its convention at IASI, Romania in October, 2002 and 25th World of Congress at Los Angeles in August, 2005. He also attended 4th Encuentro Intemacional Literario at Montevideo, Uruguay in April, 2003. His poems are published in Algeria, Australia, Argentina, Canada, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Romania, USA, UK, Uruguay and Zambia. BETTY ANN MATTHEWS lives and writes in Nelson, New Zealand. Her work has appeared often in small NZ magazines. JAN HUTCHISIN'S poems are in a variety of publications. A recent poem is in Kaupapa edited by Hinemoana Baker and Maria McMillan. A new poem will soon appear in Southerly, Melbourne. Her most recent collection of poems is Days among Trees published by Steele Roberts. ARUN GAUR was the Senior Reader, Department of English, Mizoram Central University, Aizawl. He now lives in Panchkula (Haryana, India) and recently, his poems have appeared in Stellar Showcase Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, Brittle Star, Tipton, Lamport, and The Ugly Tree. PATRICIA PRIME is an Auckland editor, poet and anthologist, widely published in New Zealand and overseas. MARK PIRIE lives, works and writes in Wellington, New Zealand. Former publisher of JAAM magazine and publisher of 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. IAN C. SMITH lives in Australia with his wife and their four sons. His work has appeared in Best Australian Poetry, The Dalhousie Review, Descant, Magma, The Malahat Review, and Westerly. His latest book, Memory Like Hunger, is published by Ginninderra (Canberra) MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON lives in Itasca, IL, USA. He spent 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Vietnam War era. He is a freelance writer, and poet. He has been published in USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Turkey, Fuji, Nigeria Africa, India, United Kingdom. Michael Lee Johnson is a member of Poets & Writers, Inc and Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers. He has published 145 poems in 2007 to date. He is the author of: The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom. He is now the publisher, editor of Poetic Legacy: CYRIL A. MORROW was born and raised in the British Isles. College educated with a degree in English lit with a focus on the Victorian period. However, his love of poetry is firmly rooted in the romantic era. He presently works and lives in Miami, Florida. Indeed, He is fortunate that he returns there yearly. MIKE COLLINS, lives in Albany Auckland, New Zealand, where he is studying for a BA in English at Massey University. This year he did a Creative Writing paper and that is where these poems originated. These Haiku poems are about the images he can remember. PETER ROBERTS lives and writes in Australia and works as a CEO of a community-based learning and development organisation in Melbourne. He is married and has two children. WILL FRASER lives and writes in NSW, Australia. 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, Southerm Ocean Review and Going Down Swinging. JOHN O'CONNOR is a Christchurch poet and publisher. His work has been published extensively and he has had several collections of his poetry published. CHRIS PARSONS lives and writes in New Zealand and whose work has appeared in Blackmail Press, JAAM, Snorkel, Southern Ocean Review and the Otago Daily Times. RICHARD DINGLES has an MA in literary studies from University of Iowa and manages business systems at an insurance company. Homestead Review, Nebo, Mainchannel Voices, Free Verse, and Icon have most recently accepted his poems for their publications. BARRY SOUTHAM is a well established poet living in Christchurch, New Zealand, and a short story writer and playwright with a large body of published work behind him and several published books of his work. 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", nd recently, with Judith Wolfe, "Hand in Hand". Also several books of non-fiction. 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. 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. Four exhibitions, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2006 at the Community Art Gallery, Dunedin NZ. Prolific book illustrator including 'An Abuse of Power (Story of the Clyde Dam), "In the Grip of Evil" Reeves/Wolfe, History of Cobb and co and Dear Pal (stories of the Maniototo). Recent non-fiction, drawings for 'Nazi Holocaust for Beginners', with Trevor Reeves.Home Page

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