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Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell is from Bombala NSW, now living in Melbourne. His recent books are I Love Poetry and Cocky’s Joy (both Giramondo), and Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Palgrave…
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Karla Whitmore
Karla Whitmore has worked in book publishing and conference, professional association and tertiary administration. She researches, photographs and writes about nineteenth and early twentieth century stained glass in Australia
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Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge lives in Sydney. She has published six volumes of poetry which have won major prizes. She has also been a recipient of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal and the Christopher…
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Eugen Bacon reflects on Issue Six.
What is so special about Other Terrain? The diversity it offers. Together with an enthusiastic team of editors, we came across distinct pieces in fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews, each with…
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Anne Casey reflects on Issue Six.
In considering poems for publication in Other Terrain, we seek to be moved in some way. Beyond cleverness and adept use of devices, we want to be challenged or changed – shake…
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Strand
By Felicity Plunkett Every poem has a secret addressee. Every secret a shoreline. Mine loosens like a tooth. I wake to three knocks. Three times no one there. Knocks echo through an empty…
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Marked
By Kathryn Lamont Prologue: It became apparent in the year 2700 that collective memories and artefacts would not be enough to remember the events of the past. If left unattended, a…
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Clear Shelter
By Avi Leibovitch The benches were too wet to sit on, so I stood like everyone else on the platform. The rain tapped a furious rhythm on the concrete ground. I…
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Pseudopangea
By Jeremy C. North The land was once one. It stood as a lone entity, encompassing every continental body so rigorously defined by mappers in present day. There were no arguments about…
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Jane Clarke
Jane Clarke’s first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015 to both public and critical acclaim. Her second collection, When the Tree Falls will be published by Bloodaxe in 2019. She…
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Begging Another Draft
By Lyn Zelen Call yourself a writer? The thoughts spit back at me, mocking my fingers as they hover over the keyboard. No, I can’t. I’m not ready. Self-deprecating comments spin around my…
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AU S T R A L I A N A I R
By Solli Raphael Air it’s the invisible goodness, that links our brain with full gain, so we can think without a strain, and without it, we would probably go insane. And…
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Anne Elvey
Anne Elvey’s publications include White on White (Cordite 2018), Kin(FIP 2014), and five chapbooks, most recently Il ricordo: six days in Val Taleggio(Rosslyn Avenue, 2018) and This Flesh That You Know(Leaf Press, 2015).…
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BANDIT
(1999-2016)By Judith Beveridge Published in Sun Music: New and Selected Poems, Giramondo Publishing, 2018. Read Judith’s interview here.
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Jayant Kashyap
Jayant Kashyap’s poetry appears in The Ekphrastic Review, Barren and StepAway magazines, among others; one of his poems was featured in the Healing Words Awards Ceremony (September 2017), and has a Pushcart Prize nomination. His collaborative poems with Lisa Sticenow appear in zines,…
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Who owns the field?
by Jane Clarke Published in The River (Bloodaxe Books 2015).
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Kangaroo Moon
By Michael Farrell Published in I Love Poetry (Giramondo 2017). Translated by Iris Fan.
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The hawk in your thoughts
by Michael Aiken.
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It’s all grist for the mill.
By Jessica Murdoch. Stephen King, Dr. Roxane Gay, Phillip Pullman, Joanne Harris, J.K. Rowling, John Marsden, Oodgeroo Noonuccal. The list of writers who teach (or used to) is a long and illustrious…
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A Ghazal: in Europe
By Jayant Kashyap After our ship took to air, through the skies, the first prayers we swore in Europe. Reaching the clouds weather took dramatic turns, but omens much we forbore in…
