From
Australian :-
All poets I have selected have their own voices: a means to
express, being the voice of the revealer or speaker, not others.
I lectured to many poets, storytellers and song lyricists at a
Sydney university, as well as being a guest at other venues in
both Australia and New Zealand until I recently decided to
return to my own writing, including one of the two most
consistent areas I write in - poetry. The other one is fiction.
Both can tell stories in different forms, as is also evidenced
in much of the poetry I have selected. One of the great asserts
is the variation in form, whereby you can also mix the two
together as I do in a couple books of my poetry, while another
five books of poetry use a cyclical structure like the chapters
of novels where I use poetry such as the start of chapters or
within the novels themselves.
Most of the Australian poets here have been in anthologies of
poetry I have edited, along with my role in magazines of poetry
produced by the Writer's Co-Op, SRC, Bankstown, Sydney, of which
I was the honary director. I have selected the outstanding ones,
whose work well represents the width of poetry down under, both
in form and cultural variations, such as Nicholas Grapsias, one
of the most successful, whose poetry has often been on the Greek
community, including his first book of poetry, Bohemian Rose,
and published in numerous literary magazines, both in Australia
and other countries.
The New Zealand poets reflect a stronger pedigree of published
books, partly due to being older more experienced poets in the
sense of how long they have been writing, not so much physical
age, such as Bill Manhire and Don Long who are both based in
Wellington. Bill is one of his country’s foremost poets while
Don has also been responsible for a lot of Polynesian
publications in both journal and book form. Vernice Wineera was
born in New Zealand but is now an academic at a university in
Hawaii.
Credit is acknowledged to the publishers where the examples come
from one of the poet’s books or a magazine.
Together, all the poets reflect a strong vein of variation, both
in culture and styles of poetry. The selection of Australasian
poetry also reflects the fact I regularly move between the two
countries and know many of the writers of both places and have
never been bothered by what others might call 'borders' since as
I say in a poem I wrote on migrants, 'We are all migrants from
the classroom of birth.' The selected writers for the next
section are in alphabetic order where the NZ poets have their
country in brackets of their last names as follows. The other
poets are Australian.
Australasia:
Julia Allen (NZ), Bonita Cartwright, Rangi Faith (NZ), Nicholas
Grapsias (He is the Selected Poet in Part 3), Jeffrey Paparoa
Holman (NZ), Gary Langford, Don Long (NZ. Don is the selected
poet for the Masters Poet Section, Part 5), Bill Manhire (NZ),
Michelle Mateer, Sean McCarthy, Carol-Anne Stewart, Karen
O'Brien, Roger Vickery, Vernice Wineera (NZ).
Gary Langford
Melbourne
Paintings in this issue by Stefano Oliva,
who was born on the 4th of august in the year 1977 in Mirandola
( Modena). He graduated at the “ Institute of Art A. Venturi” in
the year 1996 in the branch of advertising, graphics and
photography. "
Since secondary school, a certain capacity in drawing and in the
use of the colour has been claimed to him;he took part and won
competitions of painting for “ Genova’s Eurof. He also engaged
in printing and a study of computer graphics He has also staged
photos in photographic shows and as taken care of the
illustration of different books for infancy. He is now dedicated
to canvas painting of Honduras and Africa
Rati Saxena
The poems, articles and reviews
published in Kritya are received by e-mail. The views, themes
etc. expressed therein are solely those of the respective
writers, and not of the publishers or editors of Kritya. The
credentials of the writers are those that they provide via
e-mails and most of the writers are not personally known to the
publishers and editors.
