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Jo McInerney

Jo McInerney is an English and Literature teacher working in Gippsland. She has been writing haiku and tanka since 2007 and has been published in Australia and overseas. Work by this poet                  

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Hemat Malak

Hemat Malak is a Sydney author whose love of poetry began in childhood.  Her self-published books, Make Mine Divine and Your Angels Called and Left a Message have earned finalist positions in the 2013 International Book Awards and the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards.             …

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Earl Livings

Earl Livings has published poetry and fiction in Australia and overseas. His writing focuses on science, history, nature, mythology and the sacred. He has published two poetry collections, Further than Night and Libation, and a fantasy verse novel, The Silence Inside the World. Earl…

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Keitha Keyes

Keitha Keyes lives in a tiny house in Sydney, filled with antique irons and model ships. She writes haiku, senryu, gembun, tanka, kyoka, cherita and tanka prose. Her work is published widely in print and online, in Australia and overseas.…

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Michelle Kanevsky

Michelle Kanevsky is a writer, both in her (shadow) career as a copywriter and in her spare time where she ventures into poetry and longer form territory. Work by this poet                  

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Ross Jackson

Ross Jackson is a retired teacher resident in Perth who has had poetry published in Westerly, Cordite, Poetry Australia Anthology, Rabbit Poetry, Poetry New Zealand and in many other literary journals and websites. His collection, Time alone on a quiet…

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Samantha Sirimanne

Samantha Sirimanne Hyde was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Australia. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing, co-authored a selection of poetry, published a collection of short fiction and recently a novel, The Lyrebird’s Cry. Her Japanese genre poetic…

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Marilyn Humbert

Marilyn Humbert lives on Darug and GuriNgai land in Berowra, NSW. Her tanka and haiku appear in many international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions, also being published in anthologies, journals and online.…

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Kris Hemensley

Kris Hemensley was the co-ordinator of Collected Works Bookshop (now Book Treehouse). His last book was Your Scratch Entourage (Cordite, 2016); plus a chapbook From the Blue Notebook (Now Orries Press, 2022). These Topographies are part of a larger ongoing…

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