Recommended Links

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AA Independent Press Guide
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dee.rimbaud/aaipg.html

A free online guide to 2000+ lit mags and publishers

Australian Humanities Review
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/

Australian Humanities Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal founded by Cassandra Pybus. It is published quarterly with regular updates every two weeks. Edited by Elizabeth McMahon with assistance from an Editorial Board. AHR also receives funding from the Australia Council and the Cultural Activities Committee of the University of Tasmania.

Big City Lit
http://www.nycbigcitylit.com/

Wide-spectrum art-focused e-Zine, beautifully illustrated, and based in New York but with a world focus.

Cordite
http://cordite.org.au/

Excellent poetry review webzine. Based in Australia, with a focus on local talent.

Jean-Michel Bartnicki
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean-michel.bartnicki/

Want to see a fine example of featuring one's own work for an international readership? An impressive site -- perhaps a little too ornate, but includes english translations from the french. (Useful for brushing up one's long gone french, too.) Some interesting verse, sometimes perhaps a little too much sentiment, but at its best, touching.

Janice Bostok
http://www.postpressed.com.au/janbos/

Author of the PostPressed titles Silver Path of Moon and Amongst the Graffiti.

The Engine
http://www.theengine.net/

Poetry web--magazine operated by Paul Murphy. Now accepting submissions of poems and pictures.

Please note that the site is banned in public places and that anyone surfing into it - either by pattern, design or just chance - will be reported to an alligatorian minion in a black silk cape and punched over Venetian mask (sinister or what!!!!) under the rule '011'. (also sinisterly inverting the codified 'room 101' of Orwellian legendre and Godonlyknows what punishments await that person for looking at the visage of the Medusa?)

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Eucalypt a Tanka journal
http://www.eucalypt.info/

Eucalypt is the first Australian journal devoted to this ancient Japanese poetry genre, a print magazine which will showcase contemporary tanka poetry, written in the English language and intends to publish only those poems its editors consider of the highest standard. Its objectives are to offer wider publication opportunities to tanka poets and to make more people aware of the delights of reading and writing tanka.

FILIGREE
http://communities.ninemsn.com.au/Filigree

This Australian poetry web site is a community oriented page. Poets and those interested in poetry are invited to participate in a number of different ways, including the Poetry Challenge (submit a poem on a featured theme and have a chance to have your work on the Featured Poem page) and the Favourites listing (submit your favourite poem and have it listed on the Favourites page, or printed in full if copyright allows).

Jeff Guess
http://www.cobweb.com.au/~jeffpoet/

The personal web page of a local, prolific and prestigious poet.

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Haiku NewZ
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikunews

A monthly newsletter for readers and writers of haiku. Based in New Zealand, they maintain listings for international competitions and publications, and run monthly articles.

IP eNews
http://www.interpr.com.au/news/enews.htm

The newsletter of Interactive Publications, Queensland’s innovative publisher and distributor of print and digital texts. This site gives you the latest news about what they do, what they publish, and in-depth features on their authors and their work.

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New Hope International and Gerald England
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/

Haiku Talk, reviews, poetry, travel photos and more.

OzPoet
http://www.ozpoet.asn.au

Explore all the flavours of contemporary Australian poetry. You will find the works of living Australians who write poetry in all forms, as diverse as the poets who write today, from high-art academic to earthy bush poets. They welcome the work of poets who are published in print as well as those who aren't.

As well as providing a showcase for contemporary writing, they aim to provide useful resources for poetry lovers, poets, students, teachers and anyone with an interest in poetry writing, reading or appreciation.

Paper Tiger
http://www.papertigermedia.com

Australia's first international CDRom Poetry Project now has it's own Website. Visit them today.

Paper Wasp
http://users.bigpond.net.au/ReportWright/PaperWasp/PaperWasp.html

This web site is associated with the Paper Wasp print magazine, devoted to the Japanese verse forms: haiku, senryu, renga and tanka.

•••Order Paper Wasp Online!

Poets Union
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~poetinc/

The Poets Union was formed in August 1977 in Melbourne, revitalising Australian poetry with a new attitude to one of the oldest of all artforms. Poetry was taken off the dusty bottom shelf and into the streets, being read in pubs, cafès and parks, and finding new shapes and sounds to reflect a changing world.

Qld Poetry Federation
http://www.fringearts.asn.au/

for details of the Qld Poetry Federation's Subverse Festival.

Retort Magazine
http://www.retortmagazine.com/

monthly journal of contemporary art + literature • also a forum for creative artists globally • based in brisbane queensland australia • also provide a monthly arts calendar for local cultural events

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Simply Haiku
http://www.simplyhaiku.com/

The world's most widely read contemporary literary magazine dealing with Japanese verse forms in the English language.

Stylus Poetry Journal
http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com/

An online poetry journal based in Brisbane Australia, accepting submissions from around the world.

Sydney Mosaic
http://www.ram.net.au/users/paula/

A platform for poets to show the best of their work to the rest of the world.

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Synaptic Graffiti Collective
http://www.synapticgraffiti.net/

Poetry in Motion: wordartnoisemotionvoice ...where Arts meet Activism...

3AM Magazine
http://www.3ammagazine.com/

Fascinating article&interview-based e-Zine with a focus on the independant and note-worthy:
"From 'cutting edge short fiction' to political satire and music reviews. 3 AM is a dream for the young, literary, and clued-up, and it counter balances nicely the London/New York publishing behemoth."

The Thylazine Foundation
http://www.thylazine.org/

The Thylazine Foundation publishes a free biannual online literary and arts magazine which includes a special supplement Australian Poetry Book Review.
The Thylazine Foundation also runs an information and resource website that includes a Poets Directory listing over 350 Australian poets.

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Timoshenko Aslanides
http://timoshenko.actewagl.net.au/

The website of an Australian poet of Greek descent whose originality and determination to celebrate Australia and Australians characterises his work, which has won national and international acclaim.

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The Upfront Club
http://www.upfrontclub.org/

Catch regular poetry at the Upfront Club. This Maleny Co-op Licensed Cafe has live music three nights weekly. Visit their home page for a gig guide, opening hours and links to musicians.

World Haiku Review
http://www.worldhaikureview.org

The essential first stop on the web for lovers of Haiku.

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