Flight Calls
by Bastian Fox Phelan
Bastian Fox Phelan is a writer from Mulubinba (Newcastle), Australia. Their work is grounded in attentiveness to place, exploring relationships between self, environment, and the more-than-human world. They are the author of the memoir How to Be Between, and their essays have appeared in On This Ground: Best Australian Nature Writing, Sydney Review of Books, Landfall, and Island. Bastian holds a PhD in English from the University of Newcastle. Their research explores eco-memoir, ecological apprenticeship, and the role of the amateur. Bastian has been making zines for over twenty years, and they are a passionate citizen scientist and birdwatcher.
Summertime
by Amanda Anastasi
Amanda Anastasi is a Melbourne poet published both locally and internationally, including in Best of Australian Poems, Best Australian Science Writing, Australian Poetry Journal, Griffith Review, Cordite Poetry Review, and The Massachusetts Review. Amanda is the author of ‘Taking Apart the Bird Trap’ (Recent Work Press, 2024) and ‘The Inheritors’ (Black Pepper, 2021). Amanda was Poet in Residence for three years at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, where she used poetry to communicate the climate crisis. She was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and received a Nielma Sidney Literary Travel Grant from Writer’s Victoria to write at the Great Barrier Reef. Amanda was recently commissioned by DFAT’s Climate Change Diplomacy Branch to write a poem for COP30 Brazil.
I don't need to tell you that rain is poetry (the earth is an open mouth)
by Pascalle Burton
Pascalle Burton is an experimental poet and performer based in Meanjin/Magan-djin. She also plays in the band The Stress of Leisure. Her collection About the Author is Dead is available through Cordite Books.
The Bleed
by Dakota Feirer
*Tune into Poetry Month this August for a special Poem Forest poem by Dakota Feirer
Dakota Feirer is a Goori storyteller, with his work featured in Kill Your Darlings, Red Room Poetry, Australian Poetry, and more. Dakota was awarded the 2023 blak&write! fellowship for his recently released Arsenic Flower (2025), a collection of poems engaging with Indigenous resurgence, manhood, Country and cultural repair in the 21st century.