2019
December 22 - 2019
Highly Commended in the 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize judged by Cilla
~
'As finalists I chose four poems, all of which left me something to think about
further. They all give a sense of something waiting to be resolved, something
not quite sayable, at the limits of language.
~
Awe by Wes Lee... A poem barely under control after the shock and disorientation
of ‘a grave event’; the poet casting around feeling inadequate, trying to come
to terms — but far too early — with something disproportionate to previous
experience.' — Cilla McQueen
The 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize is offered by Takahē Magazine.
Founded in Christchurch in 1989, Takahē Magazine publishes short stories, poetry
and art, as well as essays, interviews, and book reviews.
December 14 - 2019
Best of the 20i9 Reading List: Banshee Magazine.
Banshee is an Irish literary magazine edited by Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy
and Eimear Ryan.
December 7 - 2019
Bar-bright appears in fourW thirty: Pearl, launched on Saturday December 7
at Gleebooks in Sydney, celebrating the anthology's pearl anniversary (thirty
years of publishing).
Edited by David Gilbey, fourW is the annual anthology published by the Booranga
Writers Centre at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales.
'Booranga Writers Centre celebrates three decades of publishing new writing that
links the Wagga Wagga region with the world – with panache and verve
– stretching the boundaries of writing in multi-layered, allusive writing that
engages, challenges, seduces … Meet and hear writers read from their work.'
December 4 - 2019
New Year's Day: Observation Unit appears in The Aesthetica Creative Writing
Annual 2020 in the UK.
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual is an international showcase of new
poetry and short fiction, featuring the finalists of the Aesthetica Creative
Writing Award.
The 2020 Annual can be ordered online at Aesthetica Magazine.
December 1 - 2019
Accepted for publication in The Beach Hut a new online literary journal.
'An online platform for coastal themed contemporary poetry, flash fiction and
short stories. Celebrating nature & writing and its therapeutic benefits.'
November 29 - 2019
Shortlisted for the 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize judged by Cilla
The 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize is offered by Takahē Magazine.
Founded in Christchurch in 1989, Takahē Magazine publishes short stories, poetry
and art, as well as essays, interviews, and book reviews.
November 16 - 2019
Shortlisted for The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in the UK.
'The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that
celebrates excellence in Poetry and Short Fiction. Hosted by the international
art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine.'
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award panel of judges are: Katy Guest, Professor
Oz Hardwick, Liz Jones, Martine Pierquin, Steve Toase, and Teresa Palmiero.
The winners will be announced in December.
November 16 - 2019
Two poems appear in The Perfect Weight of Blankets at Night: The New Zealand
Poetry Society Anthology 2019, edited by Raewyn Alexander, and launched at
the Garden Room, Grey Lynn Community Centre, Auckland, on November 16.
‘The New Zealand Poetry Society is dedicated to promoting, developing and
supporting poetry and poets in New Zealand. Its patrons are Dame Fiona Kidman
and Vincent O'Sullivan.’
November 6 - 2019
Accepted for publication in The Selkie Anthology: Volume 2, to be launched in
January 2020 by The Selkie, an online literary journal based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Founded by Huriyah T. Quadri, Lis Mesa, Chelsea Welsh & Sonali Misra, The
Selkie aims to support and nurture voices from diverse and often marginalised
backgrounds by welcoming submissions and promoting the work of underrepresented
authors and artists.
'Our own stories came together in a flurry of colour and culture – a British
novelist exploring her Pakistani roots through her craft, a nonfiction writer
born Cuban yet raised in America reflecting on immigration and identity, a
Scottish poet from Edinburgh using her country’s heritage as inspiration for her
work, and an Indian editor and writer navigating between her career in
publishing and writing fiction – we are united by our need to create.'
November 5 - 2019
Longlisted for the 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize judged by Cilla
The 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize is offered by Takahē Magazine.
Founded in Christchurch in 1989, Takahē Magazine publishes short stories, poetry
and art, as well as essays, interviews, and book reviews.
October 25 - 2019
Calling in, and The Girl and the Field #2 appear in Mayhem, Issue 7, edited by
Dr Tracey Slaughter at the University of Waikato. Launched on October 24 at The
Meteor in Hamilton.
'Take the ladder to Mayhem — to work that’s autonomic, undefended, tender,
frontline, insubordinate, bruised. To work that breathes, risks, cuts, shines,
calls out, costs.' — Tracey Slaughter
With new writing from: Shivani Agrawal, Kate Mahoney, Sara Ali, Allan J. Manson,
Melanie Allison, Conor Maxwell, Ivy Alvarez, Jack McConnell, Aimee-Jane
Anderson-O'Connor, Nina McCullagh, Bill Bradford, Caoimhe McKeogh, Ellen Morgan
Butler, Olivia Mead, Tania Collins, Tori Mitchell, Maria-Teresa Corino, Layal
Moore, Ime Corkery, Josiah Morgan, Jeni Curtis, Terry Moyle, Semira Davis,
Nithya Narayanan, Makayla Dick, Bob Orr, Claire Duncan, Sarah Penwarden, Kirsty
Dunn, Meg Prasad, Annette Edwards-Hill, Mark Prisco, Racheal Elliott, Hayden
Pyke, Dara Flaws, Maggie Rainey-Smith, Jasmine Gallagher, essa may ranapiri,
Eliana Gray, Vaughan Rapatahana, Lynda Hall, Brittany Rose, Jordan Hamel, Dadon
Rowell, Matthew Harris, Caleb Shepherd, Paula Harris, Carin Smeaton, Jenna
Heller, Tycho Smith, Michelle Hickman, Rachel Smith, Liam Hinton, Ruby Solly,
Lily Holloway, Erica Stretton, Jessica Howatson, Loren Thomas, Ed Howell, Rhegan
Tu'akoi, Maeve Hughes, Kathryn van Beek, Lincoln Jacques, Trish Veltman, Briana
Jamieson, Heidi Lee Rogers, Ash Davida Jane, Kavesh Vythilingam, Eefa Yasir
Jauhary, Waikaremoana Waitoki, Wes Lee, Laura Williamson, Andrew T. Lyall, and
Tim Wilson.
Mayhem, Issue 7 can be purchased in independent bookstores or direct through
the Mayhem website.
October 24 - 2019
I've Let A Man appears in Silence: The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's
International Poetry Prize Anthology 2019.
Edited by Shane Strange, the anthology contains the winning and longlisted poems
from the annual $15,000 prize.
The winner was announced at the Poetry on the Move festival by the Vice-
Chancellor and President, Professor Deep Saini, on October 21.
October 6 - 2019
Two poems appear in Pink Cover Zine, Issue 5, guest edited by Kristen de
Kline, and launched at the Newcastle Young Writers Festival as part of The
Zine Fair on Sunday October 6 in New South Wales.
Issue 5, on the theme of 'Lawlessness', features new writing from: Sarah
St Vincent Welch, Linda Stevenson, Kit Kelen, Ian C Smith, Anne Walsh,
Kerry Shying, Rob Schackne, Anne Casey, Beth Spencer, Fernanda Tapia, Ali
Whitelock, Elsie Koraline, Richard Mudford, Nick Chlopicki, Wes Lee, and
Samantha Trayhurn.
'What does it mean to be lawless? To inhabit the spaces of lawlessness? A
number of concepts come to mind - exile, anarchy, revolution, criminality
- but how do we engage with such zones in our creative pursuits? Do they
come from a space of lawless passion? Or a space embodied by something
lethal - the nicking of flesh, the letting of blood?' - Pink Cover Zine
October 1 - 2019
Accepted for publication in Mayhem, Issue 7, edited by Dr Tracey Slaughter
at The University of Waikato.
Mayhem, Issue 7 will launch in October.
September 15 - 2019
Trapdoor appears in Heroines: an anthology of short fiction and poetry
Volume II, published by Neo Perennial Press in Australia, and edited by
Sarah Nicholson and Caitlin White.
'With poetry and short fiction by award winning and emerging writers
including: Julie Watts, Anna Jacobson, Therese Doherty, Jan Napier, Alicia
Gilmore, Anne Walsh, Barbara Taylor, Jena Woodhouse, Louise Pieper, Hannah
Wheeler, Clio Davidson-Lynch, Rita Togini, Pamela Hart, Kim Waters, Julie
Bozza, Toni Brisland, Deanne Leber, Louise Hopewell, Jayne Fenton Keane,
Linda Godfry, Toni Brisland, Wes Lee, Margaret Bradstock, Kate O'Neill,
Freddy Iryss & Jane Frank.'
The anthology will be launched at the Heroines Festival, September 15, in
Thirroul, Wollongong, Australia.
September 8 - 2019
Accepted for publication in fourW, the annual anthology published by
the Booranga Writers Centre at Charles Sturt University in New South
Wales, Australia.
Edited by David Gilbey, fourW thirty will be launched in November.
September 4 - 2019
Mrs Goforth! appears in the Australian Poetry Journal 9.1 - 'resist!',
guest edited by John Kinsella.
With new writing from: Evelyn Araluen, Magdalena Ball, Javant Biarujia,
Judith Bishop, Susan Bradley-Smith, Renea ‘Rocket’ Bretherton, David
Brookes, Jarad Bruinstroop, Michelle Cahill, aj Carruthers, Bonny Cassidy,
Eileen Chong, Claire G. Coleman, Alison Croggon, Sarah Day, Shastra Deo,
Dan Disney, Jonathan Dunk, Quinn Eades, Anne Elvey, Michael Farrell, Liam
Ferney, Sophie Finlay, Toby Fitch, Lionel George Fogarty, Angela Gardner,
Jane Gibian, Lisa Gorton, Patrick Gunaskera, John Hawke, Matthew Hall,
Siobhan Hodge, Jill Jones, S.K. Kelen, Paul Kelly, Wes Lee, Bella Li, Kate
Lilley, Jennifer Maiden, Caitlin Maling, David McCooey, Peter Minter,
Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Marjon Mossammaparast, Philip Neilson, Vanessa
Page, Charmaine Papertalk Green, J. P. Quinton, Tara Rostron, Jaya Savige,
Barnaby Smith, Laurie Smith, Alicia Sometimes, Maria Takolander, Anne-
Marie Te Whiu, Richard Kelly Tipping, Ellen van Neerven, Ann Vickery,
Corey Wakeling, Ania Walwicz, Kaitlen Wellington, Rae White, Alison
Whittaker, Les Wicks, Jessica L. Wilkinson, Misbah Wolf, and Ouyang Yu.
APJ 9.1 is available in independent bookstores in Australia and can be
purchased directly from Australian Poetry.
August 29 - 2019
I've Let A Man longlisted for the University of Canberra Prize.
‘The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize
(AUD $15,000) has been offered annually since 2014.'
The winner will be announced in October and published alongside the
longlist in the prize anthology as part of the Poetry on the Move
festival.
August 29 - 2019
I Never Forgot, commended in the New Zealand Poetry Society 2019
International Poetry Competition, judged by Kiri Piahana-Wong.
The winning and commended entries will appear in the annual anthology,
alongside a number of poems selected by this year's editor Raewyn
Alexander.
‘The New Zealand Poetry Society is dedicated to promoting, developing and
supporting poetry and poets in New Zealand. Its patrons are Dame Fiona
Kidman and Vincent O'Sullivan.’
'The Perfect Weight of Blankets at Night: The 2019 New Zealand Poetry
Society Anthology' will be launched by the New Zealand Poetry Society in
November.
August 26 - 2019
Two poems appear in Issue 15 of Noon: journal of the Short Poem, published
in Tokyo, and selected by the editor Philip Rowland.
‘Published in hand-sewn, limited editions between 2004 and 2009, the
journal aims to put some of the most interesting English-language haiku in
conversation with other innovative short poetry. The new series appears
online, with the journal’s style of presentation being retained as far as
possible. A selection of poems from the online issues are published in
printed book form every other year.’
August 22 - 2019
Dolls appears in Fast Fibres Poetry 6, launched on August 22 as part
of Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day at ONEONESIX, Whangarei.
Fast Fibres Poetry Collective's sixth collection is edited by Piet
Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey.
The collection is available to purchase through the Fast Fibres Poetry
Collective.
August 15 - 2019
New Age commended in The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize
2019, chosen by the judge Brian Turner.
'The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize is one of Ireland’s
most prestigious open poetry prizes and attracts thousands of entries from
around the world.'
The prize is administered by the Munster Literature Centre and is named in
honour of the late Irish poet, long associated with the Centre.
The winner is invited to read at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival each
year.
August 15 - 2019
Surfers appears in Another North an online literary magazine based in
Liverpool, United Kingdom.
'Another North was founded in 2019. Our aim is to showcase both creative
and non-fiction writing by Northern writers, people who live in the North
and people who write about the North.'
August 7 - 2019
Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems (Isobar Press, Tokyo & London, 2019)
is reviewed by Tony Beyer.
'New Zealand is well represented by some typically acute haiku from Sandra
Simpson, Wes Lee’s hard-edged stanzas and, via the Tasman, the
indefatigable Mark Young.'
Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems is published by Isobar Press in Tokyo &
London and can be purchased here
August 6 - 2019
Body, Remember is reviewed in The North - The Alive & Kicking Issue.
The North is the flagship magazine of The Poetry Business in the UK.
'Each issue includes: a lively range of international contemporary poetry
by new and established writers, book reviews from mainstream publishers to
smaller presses; critical articles; conversations with writers.'
The North 62 - The Alive and Kicking Issue is available in independent
bookshops around the UK, or direct from the Poetry Business.
July 26 - 2019
Nub appears in Geometry, Issue 5, edited by Sophie van Waardenburg &
Harley Hern.
'A literary journal publishing diverse fiction, non fiction, graphic
narrative, art and poetry from New Zealand and around the world.'
Featuring the work of Elizabeth Smither, Jane Arthur, Tony Beyer, Alexis
Avlamis, Kyler Marzano, Anna Livesey, Susanna Gendall, Anna Priluka, Jac
Jenkins, David Merritt, Linette Marie Allen, Ojo Taiye, Damian Wampler,
Jen Hickman, Josh Bettinger, Elizabeth Morton, Anna Woods, Diane Joy
Schmidt, Jackie Davis, Violetta Leigh, Eli Karren, and Wes Lee.
Issue 5 can be purchased in independent bookstores around New Zealand or
direct from Geometry.
July 23 - 2019
Accepted for publication in the Australian Poetry Journal, Issue 9.1
- 'resist!', guest edited by John Kinsella.
"Resist! is intended to be an act of advocacy for the marginalised against
the often silent (and sometime aggressively loud) majority’s desire for
the ‘Australian’ status quo of nationalistic, Eurocentric, colonial (in
its many derivations), officially empowered, consumer-orientated, language
control, to be preserved. Resist! won’t have this. Resist! is a non-
violent act of shifting and refusing language-controls. It is not one
cause, but many causes, but all passionately and determinedly resist the
power structures of oppression with the peaceful act of the poem-making
and utterance. This is a collective of individual voices with resolve.
These are poems of different ‘opinions’, but poems sharing a platform to
speak out and be heard.” — John Kinsella
APJ 9.1 will be launched in August.
July 21 - 2019
I'd Take the Spade appears in Strix, Issue #7, launched on July 20.
Edited by Ian Harker, Andrew Lambeth, and SJ Bradley, Strix is available
in independant bookshops in the UK, and online here.
‘Handsome, streamlined and sharp-eyed.’ – Carol Rumens (The Guardian)
July 14 - 2019
Accepted for publication in Heroines: an anthology of short fiction and
poetry.
Edited by Sarah Nicholson and Caitlin White, the second in the series of
anthologies will be published by Neo Perennial Press in Australia.
The anthology will be launched at the Heroines Festival on the 15th of
September in Thirroul, Wollongong, New South Wales.
June 27 - 2019
Shortlisted alongside an esteemed group of poets for the Live Canon Poetry Pamphlet
Prize in London.
Four pamphlets will be selected for publication by Live Canon Poetry
Press.
'Live Canon are an ensemble, performing poetry at theatres, festivals and
events throughout the UK, recording poetry for radio and CDs, creating
poetry installations and digital projects, publishing poetry.'
'What an extraordinary art form poetry is, and what justice Live Canon
does to it...' - Extra Extra
June 26 - 2019
Selected as a contributor to The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss,
edited by Dr Gina Mercer and Dr Terry Whitebeach, and published
by Ginninderra Press in Port Adelaide, South Australia.
The anthology will be launched in Hobart on Wednesday 26 June at 5.30pm
at Fullers Bookshop.
'In this compelling collection, eighty-nine writers traverse their
particular territory of loss and bring back travellers' tales. Their
skillfully crafted accounts are insightful, inspiring, amusing, heart-
breaking, resilient, and, above all, damn good reading.'
The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss is available in independent
bookstores across Australia and can be purchased directly from Ginninderra Press.
June 20 - 2019
Between Skyscrapers appears in Story Cities: A City Guide for the
Imagination, launched on June 20 at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery in
London, and at Blackwell's Bookshop in Manchester on June 27.
Story Cities is part of a collaborative research project at the University
of Greenwich in London. Published by Arachne Press and edited by Ram
Kehal, Rosamund Davies and Cherry Potts, the anthology includes work from
writers in Australia, Eire, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal,
USA, and right across the UK.
'Story Cities explores ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-
imagine the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any
city: its markets, squares, cafés, hotels, parks, stations and ports; the
main streets, side streets, back alleys, dead ends and the crossroads.
Never identified, the city has a voice of its own.'
The anthology can be purchased in bookstores around the UK, or direct from
Arachne Press.
'This brilliant collection of flash fiction sparkles with originality.'
June 14 - 2019
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 is reviewed by Emma Shi on The Reader: The
Booksellers New Zealand Blog.
'The winners of the Poetry Prize for 2019 are especially enthralling. Wes
Lee’s first prize poem The Things She Remembers #1 is a swoon of images
that shout and burst.'
The review can be read here
June 10 - 2019
Body, You let Me Down appears in Oscen, an online literary journal based
in Auckland.
'Oscen creates and curates thought-provoking content that opens up
conversation in a time of noise, fakeness and antagonism.'
Demolish, the second phase of Issue 2: the Power issue, can be read here.
June 6 - 2019
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 is reviewed by Harry Ricketts on Nine
to Noon, June 4, hosted by Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand National.
'If I had to pick a standout poem, I would point to The Things She
Remembers #1 by Wes Lee. I will read an excerpt which will give you
something of the sense of the energy of the poem... Organised with slashes
in the text which keep you moving. It's a terrific poem, that's certainly
one I'm going to remember.'
The podcast can be downloaded here
June 2 - 2019
Trajectory and Night Shift appear in NOON: An Anthology of Short
Poems edited by Philip Rowland, and published by Isobar Press in Tokyo.
NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems presents a carefully arranged and
strikingly diverse selection of poems from the issues of NOON: journal of
the short poem that appeared between 2004 and 2017. Focusing on poems of
less than fourteen lines, Philip Rowland has assembled a richly
suggestive, renga-like chain of over two hundred poems by almost half as
many poets, at the same time showcasing some of the most interesting
minimalist poetry being written in English today.
'It cheers me up that there are still people on the planet who think
poetry is worth such care and attention.' – Geraldine Monk
'So full of splintered richness.' – Jane Hirshfield
'Evidences the wealth of the minimalist tradition, resolutely
international.' – Alistair Noon
NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems will be launched at Flying Books in
Shibuya, Tokyo, on Sunday 2 June at 7pm.
May 29 - 2019
New Year's Day: Observation Unit appears in Mimicry Journal, Issue 5,
edited by Holly Hunter & Ollie Hutton.
Mimicry, Issue 5 will be launched on Wednesday 29 May, as part of
Mouthfull Productions 'Magnitude series'.
'Partnering with Wellington creative media collective Mouthfull
Productions, Mimicry presents a high-octane issue of electric art,
poetry, prose, photography and music.'
Contributors include: Eliana Gray, Sean Hartery, Alisdair Armstrong, Molly
Robson, Rhys Feeney, Erik Kennedy, Tyler Barrow, Carolyn DeCarlo, George
Turner, Joy Holley, fleshy.disguise, Georgie Johnson, Sara Cowdell, Ursula
Le Sin, Malibu Stacy, BIGSWEAT, O & the Mo, Gangster Phanny, H4LF CĀST,
Vanessa Crofskey, Madshrew, Rebecca Hawkes, Jessica Lim, Robbie Motion,
Briana Jamieson, Wes Lee, Jordan Hamel, Carter Imrie-Milne, Adam Price,
Liv Gallagher, Michaela Keeble, Rose Peoples, Flynn Gough, Catriona
Britton, Caroline Shepherd, Curtis Mills, Jane Arthur.
Mimicry, Issue 5, is available in independent bookstores and direct from
May 25 - 2019
Recovery Room appears in The Selkie, an online literary journal based in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Founded by Huriyah T. Quadri, Lis Mesa, Chelsea Welsh & Sonali Misra, The
Selkie aims to support and nurture voices from diverse and often
marginalised backgrounds by welcoming submissions and promoting the work
of underrepresented authors and artists.
'Our own stories came together in a flurry of colour and culture – a
British novelist exploring her Pakistani roots through her craft, a
nonfiction writer born Cuban yet raised in America reflecting on
immigration and identity, a Scottish poet from Edinburgh using her
country’s heritage as inspiration for her work, and an Indian editor and
writer navigating between her career in publishing and writing fiction
– we are united by our need to create.'
May 5 - 2019
New Age appears in Landfall 237, edited by Emma Neale and published by
Otago University Press.
With new writing from: John Adams, Peter Bland, Laura Borrowdale, Bill
Bradford, Iain Britton, Medb Charleton, Stephen Coates, Carolyn DeCarlo,
John Dennison, Lynley Edmeades, David Eggleton, Joan Fleming, Jasmine
Gallagher, John Gallas, Brett Gartrell, John Geraets, Tim Grgec, Michael
Hall, Rebecca Hawkes, Joy Holley, Aaron Horrell, Gail Ingram, Claudia
Jardine, Sam Keenan, Erik Kennedy, Arihia Latham, Jessica Le Bas, Wes Lee,
Tina Makereti, Ria Masae, Cilla McQueen, Zoë Meager, Robynanne Milford,
Sean Monaghan, Art Nahill, Kavita Nandan, Rachel O’Neill, Maris O’Rourke,
Claire Orchard, Joanna Preston, essa may ranapiri, Anna Rankin, Jeremy
Roberts, Leanne Radojkovich, Carrie Rudzinski, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Sarah
Shirley, Rachel Smith, Elizabeth Smither, Catherine Trundle, Kirsteen Ure,
Tam Vosper, Tom Weston, Anna Woods, Kirby Wright.
'Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest running arts and literary
journal. Published by Otago University Press, it showcases new fiction,
poetry, essays and cultural commentary.'
Issue 237 is available throughout New Zealand bookstores and direct
from Otago University Press.
May 5 - 2019
The Gateway to Dark & InterCity Bus - Dunedin appear in Pink Cover Zine
Issue #4, edited by Samantha Trayhurn and launched at the Museum of
Contemporary Art Zine Fair in Sydney on May 5th.
Issue 4 on the theme of 'South' was produced in New South Wales and
Begota, Columbia.
Featuring new writing from Rose Hunter, Allan Lake, Linda
Stevenson, Richard James Allen, Em König, Dr. Laura Roriguez Castro,
Denise O’Hagan, Wes Lee, Melda Copran, lou verga, Jane Downing, Dennis
Garvey, Linda Kohler, Kristen de Kline, Stuart Barnes, Brianna Bullen,
Jake Goetz, leónidas marechal.
'To be anywhere is always to be south of somewhere else. We move south in
hope of different horizons. Sometimes things go south and end up worse
than they were before. From southern migrations to the Great Southern
Land, what happens when we orientate our words against a northern gaze?'
May 1 - 2019
Three Poems appear in Otoliths, Issue fifty-three. A quarterly literary
magazine edited by Mark Young, in Queensland, Australia.
'Otolith: Any of the granules of calcium carbonate in the inner ear of
vertebrates. Movement of otoliths, caused by a change in position of the
animal, stimulates sensory hair cells, which convey the information to the
brain. An ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and
otoconite.'
Issue fifty-three is available in print and online.
April 16 - 2019
Sequelae appears in Meniscus Vol 7: Issue 1, edited by Jen Webb at the
University of Canberra.
‘Meniscus is an online literary journal published by the Australasian
Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Its aim is to provide a showcase
for the best in contemporary international writing.’
The editors and advisory board are based in Australia, New Zealand and the
UK, and welcome submissions from writers anywhere in the world.
‘Meniscus publishes high quality, innovative poetry, short fiction, and
creative essays in English, or in other languages with a good parallel
translation.’
The journal can be read here.
April 6 - 2019
Accepted for publication in Mimicry, Issue 5, edited by Holly Hunter &
Ollie Hutton.
Mimicry is an arts and literature journal from Wellington, Aotearoa New
Zealand.
April 2 - 2019
Before the Glittering Sea of California appears in Issue 8 of the Irish
literary journal Banshee, edited by Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy and Eimear Ryan.
Banshee will launch in Cork on April 3rd (Roundy Pub), and in Dublin on
April 11th (Winding Stair Bookshop).
The Spring/Summer issue contains new writing from: Louise Kennedy, Cassia
Gaden Gilmartin, Patrick Freyne, Rose Keating, Armel Dagorn, Chris Newlove
Horton, Dominique Cleary, Stevie Heaven, Niamh Boyce, Nuala O’Connor,
Valerie O’Riordan, Adam Trodd, Jill Crawford, Christopher Cusack, E.R.
Murray, Stephanie Roberts, Ingrid Casey, Ian Dudley, Aria Eipe, Amy
Kotthaus, Mary O’Donnell, Mary Ellen Talley, Ojo Taiye, John Kelly, Wes
Lee, David Toms, Eva Isherwood-Wallace, M.T. Samuel, Cliona O’Connell,
Micheál McCann, and Natalie Crick.
Issue 8 is available in independent bookstores in Ireland and can be
purchased online here.
March 26 - 2019
Paula Green reviews the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 on the NZ Poetry
Shelf.
'I was hooked by Wes Lee‘s winning tour-de-force of a poem, 'The Things
She Remembers #1’. Phrases accumulate like a rollercoaster memory pulling
you along in a blaze of sharpness and surprise.' - Paula Green
March 21 - 2019
Sand appears in More of Us published by Landing Press in Wellington. The
collection was launched by Michael Wood, Under-Secretary to the Minister
for Ethnic Communities, on Thursday 21 March, 5.30pm, at the National
Library, Wellington.
'A unique collection of poems by 46 writers, from 29 countries, who have
come to New Zealand as migrants or refugees.'
'Families, language, fear, loss, food, and the victories that can come
slowly. These are at the heart of this collection. More of Us provides a
glimpse into the experiences of this diverse group of people, which
includes those who made New Zealand their home decades ago, and newcomers
still finding their feet.'
More of Us is edited by Adrienne Jansen, and can be purchased in
independent bookstores around New Zealand or direct from Landing Press.
March 19 - 2019
Accepted for publication in Meniscus Vol 7: Issue 1, in Canberra.
‘Meniscus is an online literary journal published by the Australasian
Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Its aim is to provide a showcase
for the best in contemporary international writing.’
The editors and advisory board are based in Australia, New Zealand and the
UK, and welcome submissions from writers anywhere in the world.
‘Meniscus publishes high quality, innovative poetry, short fiction, and
creative essays in English, or in other languages with a good parallel
translation.’
Vol 7: Issue 1 will launch in April.
March 15 - 2019
A girl dies each night on TV appears in Not Very Quiet, Issue 4, edited by
Moya Pacey, Sandra Renew, and guest editor K A Nelson.
Issue 4, on the theme of 'Performing gender', will be officially launched
in Canberra on March 18 at Smith's Alternative.
Not Very Quiet is an online journal for women’s poetry from Australia and
overseas. Publishing two issues per year, in Spring and Autumn.
March 15 - 2019
Body, Remember is reviewed by Callan Waldron-Hall in Sphinx, in the UK
'In this powerful pamphlet, Wes Lee investigates how the body can play the
role of both subject and object... It is this lack of being that Lee
captures so well, this idea that everything’s present but something’s
still missing.'– Callan Waldron-Hall
Sphinx: Poetry Pamphlet Reviews and Features is published by HappenStance
Press in Glenrothes, Scotland.
March 12 - 2019
Shortlisted for The Overton Poetry Prize 2018 at Loughborough University
in the UK.
'Wes Lee's Autobiography... This is very powerful writing that doesn’t
flinch from difficult, sometimes painful subjects. Dense with visual
imagery. Haunted by a sense of enclosure in so many different locations.
‘The wildness I carried away with me’ seems to be the right phrase for the
narrator and the reader after this collection. We admired and enjoyed this
work enormously.' – Kerry Featherstone and Carol Rowntree-Jones.
The Overton Poetry Prize for a sequence of poems was established in memory
of Professor Bill Overton, a world-respected English scholar and a former
head of department at Loughborough University. Each year the winner
is published by Loughborough University in chapbook form.
This year’s prize is judged by Kerry Featherstone and Carol Rowntree-
Jones. The winner will be announced in March.
March 11 - 2019
Accepted for publication in Landfall 237, edited by Emma Neale.
'Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest running arts and literary
journal. Published by Otago University Press, it showcases new fiction,
poetry, essays and cultural commentary.'
Landfall 237 will launch in May.
March 11 - 2019
Accepted for publication in NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems edited by
Philip Rowland and published in Tokyo & London by Isobar Press.
'The anthology brings together a selection of the best poems published in
the literary journal NOON between 2004 and 2017, offering a distinctive
and wide-ranging selection of contemporary short poems.'
NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems will be launched in May 2019.
March 5 - 2019
The Things She Remembers #1 and By the Lapels appear in the Poetry New
Zealand Yearbook 2019, launched by Massey University Press at Devonport
library in Auckland.
The Things She Remembers #1 was awarded the Poetry New Zealand Prize 2019
by Dr. Jack Ross for the most outstanding poem accepted for publication in
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook.
‘The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is this country's oldest, most
established poetry magazine. It is interested not only in the work of
established poets and experimental writing but also in that of new writers
trying to have their work recognised. It also contains reviews and
articles concerning poetry in New Zealand and elsewhere.’
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 can be purchased in independent
bookstores around New Zealand, or direct from Massey University Press.
February 13 - 2019
Accepted for publication in the Canberra literary journal Not Very Quiet.
Issue 4 will be edited by Moya Pacey, Sandra Renew, K A Nelson, and
launched in Canberra on March 18 at Smith's Alternative.
January 26 - 2019
Accepted for publication in Banshee, an Irish literary journal published
twice a year in spring and autumn.
Banshee is edited by Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy, and Eimear Ryan, and
features short stories, flash fiction, poetry, personal essays and
interviews.
Issue 8 will be launched in the Irish spring.
January 25 - 2019
Awarded the Poetry New Zealand Prize 2019 by Dr. Jack Ross at Poetry New
Zealand.
The prize is offered annually by Poetry New Zealand for the most
outstanding poem accepted for publication in The Poetry New Zealand
Yearbook.
The prize-winning poem will appear in The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
scheduled to be launched in March by Massey University Press.
‘The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is this country's oldest, most
established poetry magazine. It is interested not only in the work of
established poets and experimental writing but also in that of new writers
trying to have their work recognised. It also contains reviews and
articles concerning poetry in New Zealand and elsewhere.’
January 24 - 2019
A Dream I Had appears in Skylight 47, Issue 11, launched at an Over the
Edge literary event in Galway City Library by poet/artist/journalist/film-
Skylight 47 was established in 2013 and appears in a newspaper format
twice a year.
Issue 11 is edited by Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, and Ruth Quinlan.
January 12 - 2019
Accepted for publication in the Sydney-based journal Pink Cover Zine,
edited by Samantha Trayhurn.
Issue 4 will focus on the theme 'South':
'To be anywhere is always to be south of somewhere else. We move south in
hope of different horizons. Sometimes things go south and end up worse
than they were before. From southern migrations to the Great Southern
Land, what happens when we orientate our words against a northern gaze?'
Issue 4 will be launched March/April.