Debasish Lahiri has nine collections of poetry to his credit, the latest being A Certain Penance of Light (2025). Lahiri is the recipient of the Prix-du Merite, Naji Naaman Literary Prize 2019.           Ketone The still-life of “A Sky through Leaves” painted by stone is a moving one. – Better this than a […]

Pam Brown lives in Sydney on Gadigal land. She has been active in the Australian poetry scene in diverse modes for five decades & has published many books, pamphlets & chapbooks. A new collection of poems, Guess the Experience, is out from Hunter Publishers in October 2025.       Blueprint   on the murray’s […]

Ben Hession is a disabled writer, living on Dharawal country (Wollongong), south of Sydney, Australia. His poetry has been published in Eureka Street, the International Chinese Language Forum, Cordite Poetry Review, Mascara Literary Review, Bluepepper,  Marrickville Pause, The Blue Nib, Live Encounters: Poetry and Writing, Antipodes and Don Bank Live Poets anthology Can I Tell You A Secret? […]

Aditya Tiwari is one of modern India’s leading gay poets. His first collection of poems, April is Lush, was published in 2019 and garnered international recognition, followed by the anthology Over the Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes in 2023, released during India’s historic marriage equality hearings to critical acclaim. The book was named one of The […]

Diane Fahey is the author of sixteen poetry collections, most recently The Light Café (Liquid Amber Press, 2023) and Sanctuaries (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024). She has received various awards and fellowships for her poetry, including the ACT Government’s Judith Wright Prize, and been short-listed for six other major book awards. Her poetry has been published widely in Australia and […]

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. He won the 2018 Castello di Duino Poesia Prize, Italy, and the 2022 Special ANMIG poetry prize, organized by the Centro Giovanni e Poesia di Truiggio, Italy. In 2023, he was a runner-up in the Sparks Poetry Competition, Memorial University, Canada and in the African and African-American Studies Program […]

Šime Knežević was born in 1985 and lives in Sydney. His debut poetry chapbook, The Hostage, was published by Subbed In. His poetry has appeared in Ambit (UK), Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Magma (UK), SAND (Germany), Signal House Edition, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and elsewhere. Šime was a recipient […]

Reha Mohammad was born in Afghanistan and grew up in Ghor, where he finished his schooling. He graduated as Bachelor of Arts in Dari/Farsi Literature and Humanities at Herat University. In Kabul, he taught Farsi literature in private schools and contributed essays to Hasht e Subh and other national print media. He came to Australia […]