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Gloria B. Yates, poet, performance poet, writer & editor of MICROPRESS OZ, a mini-mag for new and re-cycled poems/poets. Associate Editors are Rob Riel and Judy Johnson. Micropress, now in its ninth year, is posted out ten times per year all over Oz and to many other countries. Micropress has cloned itself several times so it now works in association with Valley Micropress in New Zealand. Subscriptions to Gloria B. Yates at the above address. Author of A Daughter of Leeds published in the UK, her childhood has become part of the social history of Yorkshire and won her a Readers' Award for Woman of Achievement in her native city. She published and edited The Best of Micropress, an anthology of forty poets from Micropress with a foreword by Bruce Dawe. Her book of poems Getting There with each poem illustrated by a hilarious design from Kate O'Neil is obtainable from the writer for ten dollars including postage. As a performance poet and story-teller Gloria has had numerous engagements including appearances at the Montsalvat National Poetry Festival, the Melbourne Poetry Festival and Brisbane's Poetry Festival. Poems, stories, book reviews and articles published nationally and internationally. Gloria's most recent book (short stories) is The Illawarra Flame Tree And Other Worries, Micropress, New Zealand. |
