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John Cooper

John Cooper is 85 years old, living in Laurieton NSW, Australia.

Bio: For many years I have written poetry in one form or another. Finding poetry a very useful aid in proposing a toast to someone for a special birthday, or similar occasion. My poetry is traditional in style, my greatest inspiration the revered Australian poet, Henry Lawson.

I left school to work on a dairy farm at age 14. I have worked in various jobs and professions during my working life, the majority of time in a management role.

John@ozcamera.com

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Street Art of Lismore - Part Two

Rob Harle

by Robert Maddox_Harle (aka Rob Harle)

As promised here is Part Two of The Street Art of Lismore, I mentioned in Part One (Setu, Nov 2019 issue) the quality and variety of street art and graffiti in Lismore is literally awe inspiring. I have given the works simple titles myself for ease of identification and discussion only, these were not given by the artists.

Image 1 The Kid

Lismore is a regional country city in north-eastern NSW Australia, I recently moved from the hills of Nimbin into Lismore to live. We are close to the coast, the eastern most point in Australia, and to the (in)famous Byron Bay. Lismore is the health/medical centre of the northern rivers area, has a good university, (Southern Cross University), the Northern Rivers Conservatorium, a TAFE College (with excellent art courses) and a new Regional Art Gallery. Lismore is becoming famous for its avant-garde cafés, Eat The Street food festival, and also is a vibrant centre for the Tropical Fruits (a LGBTQ advocacy group). Little wonder it is home to a huge number of artists, craftspeople and musicians.

Many of the images shown here are in the so-called Back Alley Gallery of Lismore CBD. This amazing project started as a liaison between local artists and businesses.

The fantastic thing is that it is an ongoing project with new pieces added regularly.

Image 2 Black Vest

Image 3 Art Is Not A Crime

Image 4 Complex

Image 5 ID

Image 6 Forest Fun

Image 7 Purple Can

Image 8 Rain Hail Shine

Image 9 Too Relaxed

Image 10 Ramblers

Image 11 Towers

Image 12 Whiskers

Image 13 Two Heads

Image 14 Some Artist’s Names

Image 15 Eat The Street

Eat The Street is an annual event which showcases the region’s produce and huge number of different cuisines. Food from most countries around the world is represented and patrons can dine on these delicacies in the closed-off sreets.

Many of the artworks, especially those in the Back Alleys, carry a message, generally concerned with eradicating racism, building bridges instead of walls, equality for ALL people, and getting art off gallery walls and bringing it to the public as part of their daily experience. A few graffiti artists are bitter and hate most things about modern society, so have no respect for others nor public structures and deface these with their generally inferior ego-centric personal signature logos, none of these are shown here. It is a credit to local Council to encourage and support, the mainly young artists, in projects like the Back Alley Gallery.

Setu, December 2019

Street Art of Lismore - Part One

Rob Harle

by Robert Maddox_Harle (aka Rob Harle)

The quality and variety of street art and graffiti in Lismore is literally awe inspiring. There is so much art to share with you I’ve decided to present it in a two part article.

I have given the works simple titles myself for ease of identification and discussion only, these were not given by the artists.

Image 1 Where Everything Started. Back Alley

Image 2 Defiant. Back Alley

Image 3 Wolf-Snake. Back Alley

Many of the images shown here are in the so-called Back Alley Gallery of Lismore CBD. This amazing project started as a liaison between local artists and businesses and in the words of our Mayor Isaac Smith, “the back alley gallery grew organically from local artists and business collaboration. It has really encouraged other work in town which is great”. An example of that out-growth, Image 4, is a work painted on the wall of the local indigenous Bundjalung peoples’ newspaper office.

Image 4 Bundjalung

Another example is Image 5, this huge artwork adorns the north wall of the Lismore Library, looking out into the “Quad” towards the Regional Gallery. Image 6 is a small portion of the 60 metre long mural which leads to the gallery beside the car park.

Image 5 Seated Man

Image 6 Entrance Car Park to Lismore Regional Gallery

Image 7 John K. Back Alley

Image 8 Man Of Steel. Back Alley

Image 9 Beauty. Back Alley

Image 10 BNFS. Back Alley

Many of the artworks, especially those in the Back Alleys, carry a message, generally concerned with eradicating racism, building bridges instead of walls, equality for ALL people, and getting art off gallery walls and bringing it to the public as part of their daily experience. A few graffiti artists are bitter and hate most things about modern society, so have no respect for public structures or others and deface these with their generally inferior ego-centric personal signature logos, none of these are shown here. It is a credit to local Council to encourage and support, the mainly young artists in projects like the Back Alley Gallery. An example of young activism is in Image 11. Some of the artworks simply portray beauty and love Image 12 is an astonishingly beautiful work, and quite overwhelming with its size and emotional content. More amazing works in Part Two, next edition of Setu.

Image 11 Fight For Your Right and Image 2 Defiant. Back Alley

Image 12 Holding Hands. Back Alley

Setu, November 2019

Ade Caparas Manilah (Philippine – Australia)

Exclusive: Poetry from Europe and other Western locations: Curated by Agron Shele

Ade Caparas Manilah (Philippine – Australia)

She is Publication Executive "Glmpse site"

Writers International-Australia…Vice-President

World Union of Poets-Australia… President

Unione Mondiale Dei Poeti_Australia… Vice-President

World Nation Writers Union-Australia… Representative

Administrators of over 100 Poetry Groups o Various Groups

She was born in Philippine. Currently Resides in Australia and continues to dedicate his time and efforts in publishing literary works with universal values.

“I am a no lukewarm, scorpio woman, born 04 november, divorce with 10 children... my life has always been an alternating rainbow and stormy weather! I am an intellectual, only witty… and to borrow Montaigne’s word, “and so I myself see better than anyone else that these are nothing but reveries of a man who has tasted only the outer crust of science in his childhood, and has retained only a vague general picture of them: a little of everything and nothing thoroughly”.

Rare

you… haughty wind

and I

a flimsy blossom

quiet in comfort

watching the silent streams

suddenly

you… in concert with

the surging flood

smash crush me!

exert forceful velocity

whip me carry me

and I, like a timid plum

willingly bend

in an idiotic surrender

seemingly

in total jouissance

unmindful of my

future yesterday!

Ahhhh…

darling I love you

don’t you forget that

your wind

your flood

will come and go

smashing crushing

other blooms

but… I am rare!

A wood nail mimics your life?

life is a challenge, difficult to live

yet challenges can be won

swaying trees, running brooks

pebbles nails fruits food

birds dogs books songs singing

anything under the sun

is identical to our life

they are models

mimics miniatures of our life

our challenges…

one day, i cooked ‘lengua estofada’

hmmmmmmm yam… 2.5 kilos

kaput in one sitting

preparation was tedious

whole raw lengua boiled to skin; off thick outer skin

then simmer with all the ingredients for hours

when tender in their natural thick sauce

it’s the shining glory… salivated by all

‘lengua estofada’ is life model!

hammered fired hammered

cut scraped cut

before fine gold appears

everything… our five senses can seize

are examples of life challenges

like now…now, a hora mismo

i am being challenged to write a poetry

without support of an image graphic artwork

the challenge

I paint my thoughts in words

so my readers won’t fall asleep… they are left challenged…

a wood nail mimics your life?

Setu, November 2018

Janie Conway-Herron

Novelist, poet, musician and songwriter, Janie Conway Herron, comes from a well-known Australian musical family and has played in numerous bands in inner-city Melbourne and Sydney as well as touring nationally. After Janie gained her doctorate in Creative Writing at the University of Western Sydney she coordinated the writing program at Southern Cross University in Lismore NSW for more than fifteen years.

Janie has appeared at conferences and writers’ festivals in Australia and overseas. Her essays, poems and short stories have been published in a range of journals and anthologies. Cockatoo Books published her first novel, Beneath the Grace of Clouds, in 2010. Since 2004 Janie has regularly conducted creative writing workshops with Burmese refugees for the NGO Altsean Burma. The resulting anthologies of refugee stories have been distributed internationally, and Janie’s work with refugees has been recognised in Europe and South East Asia.

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Ioana Petrescu

Dr Ioana Petrescu

Senior Lecturer: English and Creative Writing
School of CIL
University of South Australia

Poetry Volumes: “I Say…” (Wakefield Press); “Fumigated” and “Persuading Plato” (Ginninderra Press)
For complete publications record see: ORCID 0000-0001-9380-6326

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हरिहर झा

जन्म: 7 अक्टूम्बर 1946; बाँसवाड़ा (राजस्थान)

संप्रति: 27 वर्षों से मेलबोर्न (आस्ट्रेलिया) में

प्रकाशित कृतियाँ:
भीग गया मन (हिन्द-युग्म प्रकाशन)
“Agony churns my heart” (OnlineGatha)

संकलन:
“Hidden Treasure” (मेलबर्न पोयेट्स एसोसियेशन ),
“Boundaries of the Heart” (गेलेक्सी पब्लिकेशन ),
देशान्तर ( हिन्दी अकादमी दिल्ली ),
गुलदस्ता ( भारतीय विद्या भवन ऑस्ट्रेलिया ),
बूमरैंग ( किताबघर प्रकाशन ),
अंग अंग में अनंग व मृत्युंजय (सहयोगी प्रकाशन ),
नवगीत-2013 (एस. कुमार एंड कं., दिल्ली 2),
VerbalArts (GJPP Author Press)

सम्मान:
अँगरेजी कविताओं पर boloji द्वारा सम्मान
’इंटरनेशनल सोसाइटी ऑफ़ पोयट्स’ (लास वेगास) तथा ’इंटरनेशनल लाइब्रेरी इन पोयट्री’ द्वारा पुरस्कृत
हिन्दी व अँगरेजी कविताओं के लिये भारतीय प्रौढ़ संघ (NRISA) का कम्युनिटी सर्विस अवार्ड
परिकल्पना हिन्दी भूषण सम्मान (2013)
2015 में अनहद कृति द्वारा काव्य-प्रतिष्ठा सम्मान
दो कविताएँ ’इंटरनेशनल लाइब्रेरी इन पोयट्री’ की “Sound of Poetry” कविता की एलबम में शामिल
हिन्दी कविताओं पर दो स्वयंपोषित संगीतबद्ध एलबम

लेखकवृंद

Kerry Petherbridge

Kerry Petherbridge is an Australian poet, an active member of the Dangerous Poets of Northern New South Wales and lives on Moreton Bay in Queensland. Poetry, music and craft run deep in her family and she has an anthrolologist’s eye on the world. She spends time learning the pathways to transformation and heart-centred meditation. Her work has been published in regional anthologies.

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Tonia Haynes

Tonia Haynes is a Bowen Therapist/Pranic Healer, who works as an alternative health therapist within the field of spinal and muscular issues in humans and animals. Originally from New Zealand, Tonia came to Australia at age twenty eight and has lived and worked in many parts of this great continent. She presently resides in Nimbin and is entranced by the spirit of community, still alive and well within the mountainous beauty of the Caldera of The Northern Rivers. In her spare time she is a part time journalist for a well received local newspaper and is endeavoring to write a substantial children's book, aimed at lifting their understanding of themselves and the planet they live upon, through a story of fantasy and adventure.

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Rikki Fisher

Rikki Fisher (MSA) – Scratchboard artist

International Award winning artist Rikki Fisher, lives in the beautiful Nimbin Valley in northern New South Wales Australia, with an arts practice influenced by her passion for wildlife.
Working with a variety of media, much of Rikki's work has focused on the richness of Australian bird life. In 2011 after a trip to East Africa, Rikki's focus changed to African animals and works in the medium of 'scratchboard' to striking effect.

Rikki has won National and International awards for her work, she conducts scratchboard workshops interstate and overseas. Rikki is recognised as a Master Scratchboard Artist (MSA) with the International Society of Scratchboard Artists, one of only 16 Masters worldwide.

www.rikkifisher.com

Facebook @rikkifisherscratchboard

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Jay Stephens

Jay was born in Lerwick on the edge of the arctic circle, and read Italian at UCL London and Bologna University. He emigrated to Australia for some sunshine (via Iran and New Zealand) at the turn of the century. No one had told him it rains more in Nimbin than it does in England. Software technical writing earns a crust, when he's not blogging, dabbling in hard SciFi with the local writers group, or composing the crossword for the local paper. He lives on a hobby farm with his wife, two kids, native beehives, a lazy dog, a decreasing number of chickens, and an increasingly large python. He tweets (frequently) at @jaystephens

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Visual Art: Selwyn Rodda

Selwyn Rodda is an Australian based painter, draftsman and digital artist (stills and abstract animation). He has been exhibiting for over two decades and works in a vaguely symbolist and metaphysical vein, with enigmatic 'biomorphic' lifeforms in unpopulated landscapes and human and animal interaction, interrelatedness and hybridization being recurrent themes. His work is found in major private and corporate collections in Australia and will be showcased in the upcoming issue of FULCRUM, an international poetry and aesthetics annual published in Boston, U.S.A.
selwynrodda.com

Statement

I deal in unstable and uncertain symbolic imagery tapped or plundered from my unconscious and imbued with as much individual psychology and consciousness as I can muster. The figures or scenes I draw or paint arise as I work. No one and none of it is conceptually predetermined. If any, the intention is to invest my characters, bi or quadrupedal , with as much mysterious life as possible. Our systems are broken, our ecologies collapsing, grand narratives are magnificent but treacherous ruins and historical symbols and allegorical figures are bereft of stabilizing meaning and communicative heft. Amongst the rubble and the dust that has not settled, what truly inspires me are biomorphic, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic or therianthromorphic beings invested with an irreducible inner life, capable of reflection and meditation or at least the striving and presence of the living. In groupings these figures can evoke wisps of intrigue, ghostly rags of sense and story and suggest, rather than embody, meaning and connection, hint at 'truths' elliptical, elusive or oneiric. I create images haunted by meaning, questions rather than answers.

Art is a product of consciousness and, in a sense, imaginatively and sympathetically, it looks back at us. It is a proxy for communication between minds and at its best it transcends difference, time and historical context and touches on the deepest aspects of existence that are shared by all conscious beings. One-liners and propaganda simply scream slogans at us, precluding being-with and being-for, the abiding with others that is the source of what is best in us. There are primal mysteries that science, nor war, nor cultural myopia, nor stupidity, nor voluntary amnesia, can quite dispel, and art that is too preoccupied with being relevant and contemporary neglects to draw from the deeper well that subsumes all recorded time, all thought , all action. The artist's 'trick' is to try and keep one foot, one hand, one eye in the here and now, adding local and individual condiments and spices, and the others in the slipstream of spacetime, in the waters of eternity and oblivion. From the perspective of the workaday, the world of statistics, ledgers, data sets and the banality of reasonableness, art should be news from wilder shores, from cities and forests of indifference, transcendent madness and beauty, alternately icy and fiery dispatches of things that matter more than oiling the machine.

And finally, I want my work to be beguiling and engaging, like a series of strange, unforgettable encounters. So the element of surprise in the creation of them is a large part of what I hope they communicate to a viewer.

All works in black and white are charcoal and chalk. "Ceremony of Unknown purpose" is charcoal, chalk and pastel.

All other colour works are ink, charcoal and graphite.

Table of Contents, December 2016

Visual Art: Selwyn Rodda

Selwyn Rodda is an Australian based painter, draftsman and digital artist (stills and abstract animation). He has been exhibiting for over two decades and works in a vaguely symbolist and metaphysical vein, with enigmatic 'biomorphic' lifeforms in unpopulated landscapes and human and animal interaction, interrelatedness and hybridization being recurrent themes. His work is found in major private and corporate collections in Australia and will be showcased in the upcoming issue of FULCRUM, an international poetry and aesthetics annual published in Boston, U.S.A.
selwynrodda.com

Statement

All works in black and white are charcoal and chalk. "Ceremony of Unknown purpose" is charcoal, chalk and pastel.

All other colour works are ink, charcoal and graphite.

Table of Contents, November 2016

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Adrian Rogers

Adrian Cedric Rogers—born September 1940, in Lincoln, England, UK

I was brought up in England, but trained as a teacher in Ireland, teaching music and English in Ireland (North and South), Scotland, England, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. I am an Australian citizen, resident in South Australia where, since retirement in 2005 I have concentrated on writing, with four fantasy novels published by Double Dragon, Ontario, Canada, and two more novels published by Mountain Mist, Queensland, Australia. I now have six poetry collections published by Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, South Australia, and contributions—both poetry and articles to numerous journals and anthologies, both in Australia and elsewhere, including ‘Homeward Bound, Searching for the Sublime, an Indo/Australian Anthology of Short Stories’, and in Australia contributing regularly to Beyond the Rainbow, The Write Angle, The Colonial Athens’, Episteme—Bharat College, and many others.

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Marlene Lee (K'iali)

Marlene Lee (K'iali) is a representational oil painter. In her paintings, she seeks a meditative and tranquil quality in the midst of a busy daily life. Simple in composition, Marlene tries to capture the moment in strong calligraphic brushstrokes.

Her website is: https://marleneleeart.com

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