Tenth Issue, 12th January, 1999

Southern Ocean Review



Notes on Contributors

Stories by


  1. Steven Zellers / 1406
  2. John Gardiner / Once Upon a Time
  3. Oliver Shalala / Potholes Helped Me to Escape
  4. Joseph Levens / Another Morning
  5. Amanda Auchter /Leaving
  6. Anne Marie Emerson / Masks
  7. Alfred Niessen / Coming Home


Poems by

  1. Dancing Bear / Dream the White Skin of your Arm, Dad Alone in Texas.
  2. Peter Munro / A Fisheries Scientist Catches a Whiff
  3. Jessy Randall / The Dragonfly, List.
  4. Marcus Slease / King Billies.
  5. Barry Southam / Departure Time
  6. Patricia Prime / Out of Silence, Still Life with Onions (van Gogh)
  7. Adrian Manning / Older
  8. Johnathan Marinus / "My Sweetness"
  9. Harry Johnson / The Man who Ate NZ, From Denbigh to Macclesfield
  10. Trevor Landers / Les Fleurs, In the Maori Studies Professor's Garden, Inter Alia
  11. Jules Leigh Koch / Betrayed and Separated, On Seeing Lisa Again in Adelaide
  12. Neroli Cottam / Harmony, Making Magic
  13. Robert James Berry / House, Resting Place
  14. Trina Stolec / Diseased, Eyes of Medusa
  15. C. E. Chaffin / To the Author, Autumn Vision
  16. Michael Rothenberg / The Responsibility of Flowers, Goodbye Narcissus
  17. Lee Tracy / 4am Forever, Flying over California at Night

Reviews / Reviews of recent poetry and prose.


About the Authors

JOHN GARDINER: lives in Canada. His stories are appearing widely in New Zealand, USA, Canada and the UK, including The Richmond Review. He has also broadcast on Canadian radio.
NEROLI COTTAM: Lives in Cromwell, Otago, New Zealand. Organised a writers' group in Cromwell in 1997, and published an anthology of their work.
JULES LEIGH KOCH was born in Sydney in 1958 and raised in Adelaide. He is presently a part time School Service Officer at Ashfield Special School and a parent. He has lived and worked as agardener, 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 and Going Down Swinging.
STEVEN ZELLERS: Lives and writes in New Carolina, USA. 1406 appears in Starkey's book, "Darktakes" which has got good reviews in USA. Under consideration for making as a screenplay.
OLIVER SHALALA: A 22-year old Zambian male pursuing and Bachelor's degree in Engineering at the niversity of Zambia. Enjoys writing and travelling.
JOSEPH LEVENS: Lives in Smithtown, NY, USA. Has several stories appearing during 1998 in small publications. Semi-finalist in the annual contest held by Lynx Eye.
AMANDA AUCHTER: A student at the University of North Texas, where she is majoring in English. Has been writing for many years and has won numerous awards in oration, literature and journalism. She also created and runs an independent literary magazine.
ANNE-MARIE EMERSON: Lives and writes in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
ALFRED NIESSEN: An expatriot New Zealander who has been living in Europe for the last ten years. After graduating in English Literature and Art History from Albertus Magnus University he now lives, writes, translates and consumes, in Cologne.
DANCING BEAR: Of Chippewa and Swedish ancestry, living in the San Jose, California, USA. His poems have been published in many journals, including the New York Quarterly, Zuzu's Petals, Slipstream, Poetry Motel, the Rio Grande and a previous contributor to Eclectica. More poems to appear in a variety of magazines. Has published two chapbooks, A Reconstructed Dream and Disjointed Constellations.
PETER MUNRO: A fisheries scientist who works in Seattle, USA as well as the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. He has had poems published here and there.
JESSY RANDALL: Wrote her first poem at the age of nine. It was about her dead hamster which was buried in a tin box in the weeds behind her apartment building. Since then she has written poems about lettuce, bathrooms, Dr. Who, sex, the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, chicken mcnuggets, grapefruit spoons, true love, and rain.
MARCUS SLEASE: A native of Portadown, Northern Ireland. Attending university in Utah, USA. Currently a senior at Weber State University aiming for a MFA programme next year. Has published poetry online at such places as the Dublin writer's workshop journal The Electronic Acorn and Poetry Cafe.has also been published in print journals.
BARRY SOUTHAM: Lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand. Has had many poems and stories published internationally, three plays produced, two collections of poetry and a collection of stories. A former gambling addiction counsellor and real estate agent, in Christchurch and Auckland New Zealand.
ADRIAN Manning: Lives and writes in Norfolk, UK. Has had poetry published in a number of magazines, in print and on-line.
PATRICIA PRIME: A kindergarten teacher in Auckland, New Zealand. Her articles, reviews, poetry and haiku have been published in the small press and in anthologies. New Zealand editor of the American magazine, Slugfest. Currently writing on contemporary Indian / Emglish poets and has a book of haiku with two other poets forthcoming from Bahri Publications, India.
JONATHAN MARINUS: A 20-year-old student at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand completing his final paper for a BA in history and geography. Writes poetry as a hobby.
HARRY JOHNSON: Lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand. has had poetry published recently in Takahe and Jaam, Ulikarea and Quadrant, in the UK and USA. Also in Other Poetry, Rialto and Sun.
TREVOR LANDERS: A Masters student, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Desipiently based in Dunedin since January 1988. He is an Irish New Zealander and an irregular writer and has been published in a range of assorted journals.
JAMES LEIGH KOCH: Lives and writes in South Plympton, South Australia. Has been published in a number of journals.
ROBERT JAMES BERRY: A Londoner living is Penang Island, in West Malaysia where he lectures in English, Literature and Language at the University of Science there. Has had poems published in England, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Sweden, Trinidad and Canada. Married to Ahila, they love music, poetry and Siamese cats.
TRINA STOLEC: Lives in Ohio, USA. Has has many poems published on-line including Black Cross, Eclectica, EWG Presents, Free Cuisenart, Recursive Angel, Spilled Ink and Tome Of Literati.
C. E. CHAFFIN: Lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife and three daughters. He is a family physician. Contributing editor for Melic Review. Mellen Press recently released his first book of poems, Elementary.
MICHAEL ROTHENBERG: Resides in Pacifica and has poems published in Sycamore Review, Exquisite Corpse, Berkeley Poetry Review, Lungfull!, Mudlark, Pearl, Pyrowords, Rockhurst Review, Zuzu's Petals and many other publications. Is editor and publisher of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else. Is most recently editor of Overtime, selected poems of Philip Whalen due out from Viking Penguin in 1999.
LEE TRACY: Lived in Te Atatu, NZ between the ages of 8 and 12, and later, Auckland. . Currently residing in California. Work recently published in Agnieszka's Dowry, ElDorado Poetry Review and Avocet.
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.



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