27th issue, 12th April, 2003

Southern Ocean Review



Notes on Contributors

Stories by


  1. Kellie Barker / When Opportunity Knocks
  2. Damon Falke / The Belgian
  3. D. G. Harris / Warm Beer
  4. Elizabeth Stamford / Free to Go


Poems by


  1. Richard K. Jordan / Why'd You Lick my Ear, Spoons,
  2. Marc Swan / Fault Line,Small Movements
  3. Barry Southam / Stopover
  4. Joel Hayward / Terrace End Cemetery
  5. Betty Matthews / Lester and the Golden Elm
  6. Janet Buck / Cold Votives, Galland Feet
  7. Maurice Keady / Exit, Rain Spell
  8. Mary Cresswell / The Track to Angel Falls, The Late Late Late Show, Last Post
  9. Michael Spring / Basalt, Like this Dead, Defining Jazz
  10. David Beach / Bolton Street Cemetery, Moon (3), Moon (4), Victoria Lookout
  11. Juliete Sandall / Waipori Falls, In the Garden by Moonlight
  12. Isha Wagner / Genes of the Borgeois art, clown's Moon

Feature! Book Reviews.more to come.



About the Authors


KELLIE BARKER lives and writes in Australia
DAMON FALKE Writes and lives in Texas, USA.
D. G. HARRIS describes himself as a 'bar writer at death's door, and known at nearly every tavern in the South California land.
ELIZABETH LOWRY recently quit high school eaching to pursue a MFA in creative writing at New York University. Her work has been published in QBR, the Pittsburgh Quarterly, Art Times, Dakota House Journal, The Nieve Roja Review and is soon to appear in Moxie Mag.
RICHARD K> JORDAN is a PhD Mathematician who lives and works in the Washington DC area. By day he develops and analyzes mathematical models for the spread of infectious diseases, and by night he does his best to avoid contracting any such diseases. He started writing approximately 18 months ago, and poems and flash fiction have appeared in over 40 print and on-line magazines in the past year, most recently, Melic Review, 3rd Muse Poetry Journal, The Pedestal, Adirondack Review, Steel Point Quarterly, NetAuthor E2K, Maelstrom, Poems Niederngasse, Kimera and Red River Review. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and is Coeditor of the new e-zine, Slipknot. He has also served as Guest Editor for Stirring and Facets.
MARC SWAN Lives and writes in the USA.
BARRY SOUTHAM lives and writes in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has collections of both poetry and stories to his credit and has published much work in magazines over the years.
DR JOEL HAYWARD is the author of internationally praised books and peer-reviewed articles (non-fiction), as well as encyclopedia and dictionary entries, and has won prizes for his short-stories and other work.
MAURICE KEADY lives and writes in Sandycove, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
MARY CRESSWELL lives and writes in the North Island of New Zealand. She has had her work published widely.
MICHAEL SPRING says about himself: My poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in: Atlanta Review, Black Bear Review, Chiron Review, Literary Potpourri, Main Street Rag, Midwest Quarterly, Paris/Atlantic, Pierian Springs, Poems Niederngasse, psychopoetica, Pulsar Poetry Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, and others. My first book of poems, Blue Crow, is forthcoming from Lit Pot Press. I live in Corvallis, OR, where I work in a group home for adults with mental and physical disabilities. My partner and I are currently looking for rural property to build a cob house, and other natural building structures.
DAVID BEACH lives and writes in Wellington, New Zealand.
JULIETTE SANDALL ives and writes in Dunedin, New Zealand.
ISHA WAGNER moved to Dunedin from Auckland, New Zealand where her ancestors arrived in 1880. she alos writes short stories and novels and has had work published in NZ.
BETTY ANN MATTHEWS lives and writes in Nelson, New Zealand.
JANET BUCK is a three-time Pushcart Nominee and the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has recently appeared in Three Candles, PoetryBay, Red River Review, Runes, Stirring, The Concrete Wolf, Branches, The Carriage House Review, Facets, The Circle, Sand to Glass, The American Muse, and hundreds of journals world-wide. In 2002, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in Artemis, The Montserrat Review, Recursive Angel, Apples & Oranges, Pig Iron Malt, Gertrude, The Pedestal Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Recent awards include Sol Magazine's 2001 Poem of the Year, The 2001 Kota Press Anthology Prize, and The Thunder Rain Award. Janet's newest e-book Ash Tattoos, a collection of poetry on the terrorist attacks and the aftermath of war, is now available from The ZeBook Company:
TREVOR REEVES: Editor and Publisher of Southern Ocean Review and poet - writer of short stories that have appeared in print and electronic magazines widely.
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 2001 Also the Columba College exhibition 1999. Two exhibitions, 2000 and 2001 at the Community Art Gallery, Dunedin NZ. She is presently preparing an art book on the Bain Murders (Dunedin 1994), "In the Grip of Evil" illustrating the sequence of murders and the background to them. Home Page



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