Lady of the Murals

Stephen Oliver-Australasian poet of sixteen poetry collections, seven chapbooks, and one memoir. Poems translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. He has travelled extensively. Signed on with the radio ship The Voice of Peace 1540 kHz broadcasting in the Mediterranean out of Jaffa, Israel in the late 70s. Free-lanced in Australia/New Zealand as production voice, narrator, newsreader, radio producer, columnist, copy and feature writer, etc. Lived in Australia for 20 years. Currently living in NZ. Represented in the following: Writing To The Wire Anthology, edited by Dan Disney and Kit Kelen, University of Western Australia Publishing, 2016; The Australian Prose Poem Anthology, edited by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington, Melbourne University Press (2020); Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, edited by Tracy Slaughter, Massey University Press 2021. Recent poetry collection: Poems In Retrospect/A Selection, Greywacke Press, Canberra, 2025