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Annette
Signorini opens this issue with a Modern
Phenomenon. Annette was born in the North Queensland sugar cane
district of Innisfail, grew up in Brisbane and lives in Melbourne’s
western suburbs. Attended Victoria University of Technology as a mature-age
student, studying literature, professional writing and media. Articles
published in university women’s magazines, poetry in Motherlode
and various small press magazines. Has also made documentary videos:
Cloudbusting about women and tertiary education; In the Shadow of Angels
profiles four women artists from various fields and All In It Together
is about waterside workers on the Melbourne waterfront. Recent postgraduate
research focussed on women and working class writing. 
Susanne Rasser, 1965 in Rauris (Österreich)
geboren. Lebt in Rauris. Freie Autorin. Buchveröffentlichungen:
“Auf Grund” (1988), “Halbierung” (1992). Zahlreiche
Stipendien, Geschichtenschreiberin von Linz (1996/97), Stadtschreiberin
von Ratstadt (1997). Theaterstück “Nacht”, Text über/für
Obadachlose, Uraufführung: Salzburger Landestheater (1999). Beiträge
für Literaturzeitschriften, Antholgien, Tageszeitungen und für
den Hörfunk. Drehbuchauftrag vom ORF (2001). Nichts
Ingeborg Bachmann, geboren am 25.Juni
1926 in Klagenfurt, verstorben am 17.Oktober 1973 in Rom an den Folgen
schwerer Brandverletzungen. Sie war beim Rauchen eingeschlafen. 1956
Veröffentlichung des Gedichtbandes “Anrufung des Großen
Bären”, hier in einer Übersetzung von Angelika Fremd:
Anrufung / Invocation. 1978 erschien
eine vierbändige Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Ingeborg Bachmann
bei Piper, München. 
B. R. Dionysius was born in Dalby,
Western Queensland in 1969. He was the Chairperson of Fringe Arts Collective
Inc. from 1994-2001 and directed the ‘Subverse: Queensland Poetry
Festival’ – the major, annual, poetry event in Queensland
from 1997-2001. He recently won the ‘Best Poetry Collection by
a Queensland Author’ section of the inaugural ‘IP Picks 2002
Award’ for his collection ‘Bacchanalia’, which will be
published in September 2002. He is currently enrolled in a Masters of
Philosophy (Creative Writing) at the University of Queensland. He lives
in Annerley, Brisbane and is married to the writer Melissa Ashley and
has a daughter, Rhiannon, aged seven. The new poems in this issue are
from the Samsara section of Universal Andalusia,
a discontinuous verse novel. 
Marjana Gaponenko, 20 Jahre alt.
Studentin der Germanistik an der Universität Odessa. Veröffentlichungen
in diversen Zeitschriften und Anthologien. Teilnahme am Literaturtreffen
POESIE INTERNATIONAL in Österreich Juni 2001, Stipendiatin im Künstlerdorf
Schöppingen 2001-2002. Buchveröffentlichungen: “wie tränenlose
Ritter”, 2000, Geest-verlag, “Tanz vor dem Gewitter”,
2001, Neue Münchener Edition. Bitte lesen Sie meine Texte: Nachts.
Rupprecht Mayer, geb. 1946 in Land-Schellenberg
(liegt zwischen Salzburg und Berchtesgaden). Studium der Sinologie in
München und Taiwan. Arbeitete als Buchhändler, Sinologe und
Übersetzer. Lebt seit 1990 in Peking, China. Veröffentlichte
Übersetzungen zeitgenössischer und vormoderner chinesischer
Literatur (Shen Congwen, Shu Ting, Gu Cheng, Mo Yan, Lao She, Hong Mai
und andere). Hier sind 4 frische Texte,
diesmal vom Chiemsee.
Stephen Oliver, born 1950, Wellington,
New Zealand. Lived in Paris, Vienna, London, San Francisco, Greece and
Israel. Signed on with the radio ship, ‘The Voice of Peace’
broadcasting in the Mediterranean out of Jaffa. Free lanced as production
voice, newsreader, announcer, journalist, copy and features writer.
Books published: Henwise (1975), & Interviews (1978), Autumn Songs (1978),
Letter To James. K. Baxter (1980), Earthbound Mirrors (1984), Guardians,
Not Angels (1993), Islands of Wilderness – A Romance (1996), Election
Year Blues (1999), Unmanned (1999, Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000,
HeadworX www.headworX.eyes.co.nz (2001), covers five collections of
poetry and spans two decades. Poems widely represented in New Zealand,
Australia, Ireland, USA, UK, South Africa, Canada, etc. This one is
titled Occupations. Recent prose work
in: Deep South www.otago.ac.nz/deepsouth [Contempt: A Survey]. Thylazine
www.thylazine.org [One Day In The Life of Vicki Viidikas]. Stephen Oliver
is a transtasman poet based in Sydney, Australia.“
I have the pleasure of communicating with you to offer my services as
an illustrator. You can see my work from
Buenos Aires and appreciate the styles that I manage. Thank you.
Diego Arandojo.”
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Dear Reader,
Liebe(r) Leser(in),