Bios

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). His ‘Topography’ work is part of a larger ongoing project dating back to…

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Kevin Gillam

Kevin Gillam: is a West Australian poet with 4 books of poetry published. He works as a ‘cello teacher in schools and with private students. Work by this poet      

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Keitha Keyes

Keitha Keyes lives in a tiny house in Sydney, filled with her husband’s model ships and her many antique irons and trivets. She enjoys writing haiku, senryu, gembun, cherita, sequences and tanka prose. Her work is published widely in print…

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Kate King

Kate King writes on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country in the ACT. The birds, animals, waterways and forest inspire her poetry. She is a member of Lyrebird Tanka Circle and has been published in Australian and international journals and collections, including…

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Julie Tawse

Julie Tawse lives in the Neerim District foothills. She is a poet and artist, and a retired educator. She has had writings published in anthologies and shortlisted for prizes. Close observation, place and identity are at the heart of Julie’s…

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Julie Constable

Julie Constable lives in South Gippsland. Her writing has appeared in Verandah, Hecate, Hobo, Inkshed, Silverfish, Muse,  Poetrix, Gargouille, Antithesis, Wanderlust, Eucalypt, Science Write Now, The Pan Haiku Review, Autumn Moon, Earth and Industry: Stories from Gippsland and the Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction Anthology. Work by this poet      

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Jo McInerney

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

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Jeremy Gadd

Jeremy Gadd is an Australian poet whose most recent publication was ‘Driving Into the Dark’, a selection of 60 previously published poems (Ginninderra Press, Adelaide, 2022). He has Master of Arts and PhD degrees from the University of New England.…

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Jane Downing

Jane Downing lives in Albury, NSW on Wiradjuri land. Her poetry has appeared in journals around Australia and overseas, and her collection, ‘When Figs Fly’ (Close-Up Books) was published in 2019. She can be found at janedowning.wordpress.com Work by this…

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Jan O’Loughlin

Jan O’Loughlin is a poet and teacher living on Wangal land in Sydney. She taught English in Japan from 1985 to 2010, sometimes utilising poetry. Her haiku and tanka have appeared in many Australian, American and Japanese publications. Jan enjoys…

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