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♣ Contributors

• Paola Bilbrough lives in Wellington at present. She often feels restless, thinks it may only be
  the olive tree at the garden's edge that keeps her from moving. She has had work published in
  Sport 5 and 7.

• Jenny Bornholdt's third collection of poems is Waiting Shelter (VUP, 1991).

• James Brown lives in Wellington. His work has appeared in Sport 8.

• Geoff Cochrane's Aztec Noon: Poems 1976-1992, was published in March 1992 by Victoria
  University Press. He lives in Wellington.

• Lynn Davidson held a 1992 PEN Stout Research Centre Fellowship.

• Murray Edmond. Teaching drama at Auckland University. His latest book is From the Word
  Go (AUP, 1992).

• Bernadette Hall is on the final draft of 'Glad and the Angels', which won the 1991 Aoraki
  playwriting award and was workshopped in Canberra. 'The Girl Who Sings Waterfalls' was
  performed by drama students at the University of Canterbury, directed by Peter Falkenberg,
  in July 1992.

• Michael Hulse lives in Cologne. He is a critic, translator and poet, whose latest collection is
  Eating Strawberries in the Necropolis (Collins Harvill, 1991).

• Annamarie Jagose teaches in the English Department at the University of Melbourne. 'My
  Dearest Navaz' was written while holding the Todd New Writers' Bursary, jointly funded by
  the Todd Foundation and the QEII Arts Council.

• John Kinsella's second volume of poetry, Eschatologies, has just gone into a second edition, and
  has been nominated for both the Kenneth Slessor Award and the WA Premier's Poetry Award.
  His third, Full Fathom Five, will be published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1993.

• August Kleinzahler lives in San Francisco. His latest book of poems is Like Cities, Like Storms
  (Picador Australia, 1992). He visited New Zealand in September 1992.

• Michele Leggott's second book of poems, Swimmers Dancers, was published in 1991. She is
  presently working on Eileen Duggan, Robin Hyde, Mary Stanley and Susan Howe.

• Bill Manhire's latest book of poems, Milky Way Bar, won the 1992 NZ Book Award for poetry
  and was a Wattie Award finalist. 'My Sunshine' and 'Doctor Zhivago' are also published in the
  London Review of Books, 'Blade & Swing' in Verse.

• Johanna Mary [sic: Johanna Knox] is studying illusory desert phenomena at the Peripatetic University of Ar Rab'
  al Khali, and is currently working on a monograph entitled Some Reflections on Mirages.

• Chris Orsman: born in Wellington in 1955; currently at work fulltime as a landscape painter
  and poet.

• Joanna Margaret Paul is a painter/poet and recipient of the 1992 Rita Angus residency in
  Wellington.

• Elizabeth Smither's most recent books are A Pattern of Marching (poems, AUP, 1989) and
  Nights at the Embassy (stories, AUP, 1990). She has just been awarded a QEII Arts Council
  Scholarship in Letters.

• Olwyn Stewart was born in 1946. She lives in Auckland.

• Ronnie van Hout is a Wellington artist.

• Ian Wedde. 'Ballad for Worser Heberley' was written in response to a request from the
  Heberley family. It will be included in The Drummer (AUP).

• Virginia Were's Juliet Bravo Juliet (VUP, 1989) won the PEN Best First Book of Poetry Award.
  She presently lives in Sydney and is completing a novel titled Esperance.

• Mark Williams teaches at Canterbury University. He is the author of Leaving the Highway: Six
  Contemporary New Zealand Novelists and a forthcoming study of Patrick White.