This anthology, Here Not There, follows the successful 2010 volume, Wording the World, which published student writers from Avondale College alongside established Australian poets. Again, the result is a fresh and innovative book which gives the student poets the opportunity to see their work within a broader context and to feel included within a wider family of poets. Whether a poet is new or established, they will surely have a common goal: to give voice to human feelings and experiences.

This anthology provides a forum for a sharing and exchange of ideas and approaches, for the new poets to test their own poems against the work of obvious masters, and for the established poets to hear young voices.

Any reader coming to this volume will be struck by its cohesion and diversity - the common experiences that our humanity provides for us, and the varieties of expression that our imaginations and language enable us to explore.

- Judith Beveridge