Curtis Brown
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Curtis Brown
is a poet, filmmaker, and multi-disciplinary artist. His work has published in journals and anthologies, and shown at international film festivals. He finds it easy to speak in the third person, thinking of life as unmerited poetry.
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‘Under the bare trees’ vault, the town, cut out in black paper, invisibly lit from behind, wakes.
Imogen Forster
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Imogen Forster
lives and works in Edinburgh. Her pamphlet, The Grass Boat, is published by Mariscat Press. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University.’ives and works in Edinburgh. Her pamphlet, The Grass Boat, is published by Mariscat Press. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University.
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Karen Pierce Gonzalez
is an award-winning writer and artist. Her prose and poetry appear in numerous online and print publications. Recent chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books) and the forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Her artwork, featured in the National Arts Program (USA), has appeared in numerous galleries and literary journals, including as cover art for Chestnut Review and other select magazines. linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
And when the water lies still
Waiting for the day to begin –
When a tree
with branches bare
Stands silent against the frozen sky –
In these moments I hear your voice
Crisp as early morning grass underfoot
Your laugh whips as January winds around me
And I reach out towards you:
Silent
Bare
Waiting
Still.
Tamiko Dooley
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Tamiko Dooley
read Latin and French at New College, Oxford. She was the winner of the BBC Radio 3 carol competition 2021.
Twitter @Tamiko_dooley
Instagram @dooleytamiko
Matthew da Silva
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Born in Brighton, Victoria, Matthew da Silva grew up in a rapidly changing Sydney. He has BA (Hons) and Master of Media Practice degrees from the University of Sydney and lived for just under a decade in Tokyo. He has two adult children and one grandchild. He lives in Sydney.
He started writing poetry in 2007 but wanted to be an artist as a teenager. A timetable clash at school meant following his father’s advice and going to university. After graduation in 1985 he worked at a series of organisations, started a family, and moved to Japan to further his career and find a niche. While there he learned to write for corporate communications and upon returning to Australia in 2001 – a day before the Twin Towers – returned after a few years to do a media degree. In 2022 he started the Eastern Suburbs Art Group with Simon Kahn, and began making paramontages in the same year. “Paramontage” is a coinage attributable to Canberra poet Andrew Adair, a school friend, and refers to a synthetic combination of poetry and photographs.
Matthew had his first solo art show in November 2023, ‘Media of mass psychology’, at Laerk Space. In February 2024 he will have a solo show at Tiliqua Tiliqua in Sydney, ‘Dark alphabet’, and has acceptance for a solo show in Goulburn, NSW, ‘Gold 4WD’ to take place in March 2024. Matthew was also privileged to have had two paramontages selected for inclusion in a show, ‘Under the rainbow, together.’ timed to coincide with the ‘24 Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Also included in group shows in London and New York in 1H ’24, Matthew was an editor of Neos: Young Writers magazine in the early 80s and has written literary reviews for Mascara and Fevers of the Mind. Nowadays he routinely reads poetry at Sydney open mics.
The Wombwell Rainbow 