16th Issue, 12th July, 2000

Southern Ocean Review



Notes on Contributors

Stories by


  1. Ed Hamilton / Bakery
  2. Lad Moore / When It Was We Almost Got Croaked
  3. Greg Chandler / Pond Story
  4. Prakash Gangdev / Faces of Solitude
  5. Victor Lana / Henry's Home
  6. John Holton / Mowing
  7. Rhonda Bartle / Armistice


Poems by

  1. Dean van der Lee / Idea, Civilisation
  2. Alison Daniel / 2am Confessions, Toppling
  3. Tom Kretz / Balsam Baby, A Survivor
  4. Christina Farinus / Seeking Solitude. Love and Desire
  5. Pete Tomlinson / Black and White War
  6. Nancy Groth / Airdance, Three Quarter Moon
  7. John Allison / Journeys, Boat People
  8. Rangi Faith / Matters of Land, Not My Kind of Painting
  9. Betty Ann Matthews / The Pendulum,
  10. Nick Ascroft / The Anatomy of Economics, A Cock of the Head.
  11. Rob Allan / A Letter from Tom Arnold's Sister as the John Wickcliffe Waits in the Otago Harbour, An Attempt to Describe His Character, To Disregard the Obvious, Briefly, On the Way to Heaven Know's Where,
  12. Kay Cooke / The Triangle Shop Idea Might Even Work

Feature! Review of "Big Smoke" poetry anthology, Auckland University Press - by Bernard Gadd.


About the Authors

RHONDA BARTLE is a New Zealand writer whose work has been broadcast on Radio NZ, published in Takahe, NZ Listener and other places. Won third prize in the Star Sunday Times short story competition, 1998.
JOHN ALLISON: The featured poet in Poetry NZ #14. A collection of recent poems, Both Roads Taken recently published. John is a teacher in Lyttleton, NZ. His poems have appeared in NZ, Australia, the UK and USA.
NANCY FLYNN GROTH: lives in New York, USA. She began writing poems in 1993 and her first book is due later this year.
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 the Colunma College exhibition 1999. A major retrospective exhibition is planned for August 2000 in Dunedin.
ED HAMILTON lives in New York, USA. His short stories have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, 256 shades of Gray, Gazebo, Southern Ocean Review and The Lumpen, as well as on-line in TimeOut:Netbooks, Pif, Pink Cadillac, Eclectica, Assorted Realities, Zorn, Roar and Anthem. The story that appeared in Eclectica was selected by the fiction editor at About.com as one of the best pieces of fiction on the net.
LAD MOORE lives in Jefferson, Texas, USA. He has had a 30-year career in the printing and publishing industry, retiring in 1997 from his position as Senior Vice President of a Fortune 500 company. Now he farms near Jefferson, with his wife and Australian Shephers names Quigley. GREG CHANDLER is a writer living in Los Angeles, USA.
PRAKASH S GANGDEV has published a few stories in Bombay, India, (Mumbai), and has written a few in English of which Faces of Solitude is his first published.
VICTOR LANA has published a chapbook of his short stories, In a Dark Time with Alpha Beat Press in July of 1995. His short stories, poems and articles have appeared in Easy Writers, The Fiction Primer, Grasslands Review, Hawaii Review, Innisfree, Kings Review, New Writers Magazine and other literary magazines.
JOHN HOLTON is a writer of fiction living is Australia who has been published in Australia and the US. He has won several literary awards, the most recent of which being the Henry Lawson Prize. He is co-editor of the literary e-zine The Animist and lives with his wife and three children at Lake Eppalock in central Victoria.
SEAN van der LEE is 16 year old poet living in Calgary, Canada.
ALLISON DANIEL lives in Tasmania, Australia, and as a result of climate,isolation, and even genetics (she is closely related to the Borgias) she finds the writing of poetry keeps her out of the gutter, albiet, not for long.
TOM KRETZ has just returned to the USA after working as an accountant in Europe, mostly in Rome.
CHRISTINA FARINAS lives in Mami, Florida, USA. Her experience ranges from training horses, living on a sailboat, being a university student and working for a construction company.
PETER TOMLINSON lives and writes in Ludlow, Shropshire, UK.
RANGI FAITH lives and writes in Rangiora, New Zealand. He was awarded a Creative Arts New Zealand Grant and is presently working on a new book of poetry entitled Rivers Without Eels.
BETTY ANN MATTHEWS lives and writes in Wanganui, New Zealand.
NICK ASCROFT is presently editor of both Glottis and Otago Literary Review in Dunedin New Zealand. His collection of poems: From The Author Of has recently appeared from Victoria University Press.
BERNARD GADD: has been a prolific contributor to New Zealand literature in a number of forms over the years. Educationalist, poet, fiction writer, essayist, reviewer, political commentator (he is co-editor of a political ezine, INCITE - www.freespeech.org/incite ) and editor. He has published several books of poetry, verse and other writing.
KAY COOKE "I live in Dunedin. I am a tutor at a PTI. Have had poetry published in various places over the years". ROB ALLAN lives and writes in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, New Zealand.



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