20th Issue, 12th July, 2001

Poems by

1. Gary Langford / Snake History
2. Neroli Cottam / After the Rain, Flight Patterns,
3. Peter Olds / At Frankie's
4. Tasha / American Girl in Italy
5. James Gillard / The Stalker
6. Tony Beyer / Heirloom, Ancestry, Foothold
7. Graham Catt / Pornography, Maps
8. Ken Persons / By Reservation Only
9. Trina Stolec / Hand in Hand, Collections
10. Patricia Prime, Catherine Mair / Flowing
11. Phibby Venable / The Thieves, Star Faces
12. Barry Smith / A Young Man Heads for the Mountains, Scientist on the Verge of Extinction
13. Adrian Manning / Working the Bull, Watch Out for Little Dogs, They Still Have Teeth
14. Rangi Faith / Rites of Discovery
15. Paddy Bushe / Hopkins on Skellig Michael
16. Eric Mould / Touching and Tasting, By Association
17. A. D. Winans / Untitled
18. Ian Britton / Red Flowers, The Bed

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Feature! Book Reviews.

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About the Authors

JESSY RANDALL'S work last appeared in issue #10 of SOR. She lives in Colorado Springs, USA with her husband and a new baby boy, William Randall Gresham, born in February 2001. DIANE DEES TOBIASON is a psychotherapist and writer in south Louisiana. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Mississippi Magazine, The Dead Mule and Eclectica. She is also a columnist for Moondance. Diane and her husband publish www.princesscafe.com, a virtual rock and roll restaurant. 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. Edward Gay is a young Auckland writer presently living in Dunedin. His collection of short stories, A night of Commitment was published earlier this year and reviewed in SOR #19. DAVID KING British, based in Norfolk, England and his work has been published in the UK in World Wide Writers, BuzzWords, The New Writer, Cadenza, Peninsular and other small press magazines. It has also been broadcast on BBC radio. He also has had a fair amount of competition success, including the World Wide Writers 2000 award of £3,000 and a gold medal for the best short story of the year 'For a Yellow Jersey'. DOUG RENNIE'S stories have appeared most recently in the anthologies American Fiction 1999: Best Stories by Emerging Writers, Travelerıs Tales: Italy, Summerıs Love Winterıs Discontent and Secret Lives. His short fiction has also been published in several dozen literary journals and commercial magazines including The Quarterly, American Way, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Cream City Review, Leviathan, Buffalo Spree, Rosebud, Whetsone, Berkeley Fiction Review, Grain Literary Magazine (Canada), Green Hills Literary Lantern, Rain City Review and Indigenous Fiction #2. A collection of his short fiction, Badlands, will be published this summer by Creative Arts Books Company. He lives in Portland, Oregon. RYAN NIELSON graduated from the University of Canterbury in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Political Science. He is 25 years old, and currently looking to establish himself as a freelance writer in Wellington GARY LANGFORD originally hails from Christchurch, New Zealand where he was involved as an editor and writer in the 1970's. With a number of publications to his credit, he now lives and works in Australia. TASHA, AKA Petra Klein lives in the Chicago area. She is a receptionist for a retirement facility and a telecommunications business. She is inspired by the poetry of Anne Sexton, Jim Morrison & e.e. cummings. She has been published in numerous web eZines: Steel Point Quarterly, Unlikely Stories, Friction Magazine, Conspire, Eclectica, (this) poetry site, Duct Tape Press, Mi Poesias E-Zine, 3rd Muse Poetry Journal, 2River View, Gumball Poetry, MindKites, Snakeskin, Stirring and so on.. JAMES GILLARD is a New Zealand ex-patriate who lives in Sydney after periods in South East Asia. He has had poems published in New Zealand and Australian literary magazines. TONY BEYER teaches in Auckland, NZ, and is well know as a poet over along period. He has several collections published and his work has appeared in many magazines. GRAHAM CATT is a South Australian writer of poetry and short fiction. His work has been published in numerous magazines and journals around Australia, and has been broadcast on radio. He has also been widely published on the World Wide Web in such e-zines as The 2River View (US), Carve Magazine (US), Limestone Magazine (UK) and Snakeskin (UK). He is a member of Adelaide’s long established Friendly Street Poets, where he reads regularly. He has recently completed a series of short stories entitled "Naked", and is also looking to publish a first collection of poetry. KEN PERSONS spent his whole life in Mississippi. He realizes that there are likely millions of people who feel pity at that statement, but his hope is that this poem might change that. Each place he has mentioned is there, to be found by the curious, the adventurous, the romantic, or even the bored. Ken has been writing his whole life but nonetheless the craft escapes him, and perhaps that is why he loves it still. If anyone would ever like to contact him, feel free to do so at TRINA STOLEC started studying writing and poetry at The Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts at the age of 12. Now, she is a happily married mother of two girls living in Northwest Ohio who works for a physician's network. Her poetry has appeared in about 43 print/web zines, and she has performed at several places around Toledo over the last several years. She is a member of the rock/spoken word band Logic Alley, who's first CD was released in January 2000, and co-operator of Minstrel Soup Artist's Coalition. CATHERINE MAIR and PATRICIA PRIME: are poets living in Auckland, and are well known collaborators in many forms of poetry - their work appearing in individual collections and anthologies. PHIBBY VENABLE'S poems have appeared in Afternoon, Kota Press, Layman, Apples and Oranges International Magazine and the Appalachian Journal. Various other places too. She had a chapbook published called Indian Wind Song. It was published by the non profit organization she worked for.The proceeds went to charity. (helping area elderly have water put in and wells dug). Phibby enjoys poetry, social work, animals and watching the honeysuckle and morning glory vines overtake the fence outside her backdoor. BARRY SMITH is a New Zealand scientist who has had poems published in SPIN, Poetry NZ Takahe, Southern Ocean Review and other magazines. He lives in Auckland New Zealand. ADRIAN MANNING: Lives and writes, and teaches in Norfolk, UK. Has had poetry published in a number of magazines, in print and on-line. His first collection of poems is due out from Square One Press, NZ, later this year. RANGI FAITH (Ngai Tahu) Born Timaru, New Zealand. Books, "Unfinished Crossword", Hazard Press. Edited 'Dangerous Landscapes' Longman Paul 1994, printed in Homeland (Manoa magazine, University of Hawaii, 1997). Appeared in Poetry New Zealand, Te Ao Marama 5, etc. PADDY BUSHE was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in C. Kerry, Ireland. He has published four volumes of poetry since 1989, including To Make the Stone Sing (Sceilg Press 1996). Two collections, one in English and one in the Irish language are forthcoming in 2001. ERIC MOULD lives and writes in New Zealand. A. D. WINANS is based in San Francisco and is a poet and writer with an international reputation. He has had many collections published and has appeared in many anthologies. IAIN BRITTON is a teacher at King's School, Auckland, New Zealand. His work has been recently published in Poetry New Zealand and in a number of magazines in England - Poetry Monthly, the Forward Press and by Agenda (London). Also Jaam 14 has just published a number of his poems. NEROLI COTTAM lives and writes in Cromwell, Central Otago, where she runs a craft and arts gallery. She is an organiser of poetry readings and workshops in the Otago area and her work has appeared in a number of magazines, including earlier issues of Southern Ocean Review. PETER OLDS is a former Burns Fellow at Otago University, New Zealand and prolific poet of the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. He was born in Milton, Otago, in 1946. He has a large body of recent work and a collection is forthcoming soon, to be published by Mike O'Leary, Wellington. He has a number of collections to his credit and his work is widely known overseas. BERNARD GADD is a retired teacher living in Auckland, New Zealand. An accomplished teacher, editor, poet and reviewer, he is the editor of the forthcoming anthology of 1960's and 1970's, poetry "Real Fire" -the "alternative' anthology. TREVOR REEVES began writing in the late 1960's and has three collections, published in the 1970's, to his credit. Editor and publisher of Caveman Press and now Square One Press, he is a co-editor of Southern Ocean Review with Judith Wolfe. His writing has appeared throughout the world and includes fiction as well as poetry and critical writing and reviews. A collection of stories, "Breaker Breaker and other stories" is to appear this year. JUDITH WOLFE lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is an artist, designer and sculptor and has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand. 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 Columba College exhibition 1999. Exhibitions throughout Central Otago are planned. Her arts site is here