Welcome Literary Lounge Lizards! to the inaugural issue of Divan, your brand-new comfortably-contoured all-Australian, all poetry e-zine. No prose. No reviews. No articles. Just poetry!  Divan is the first electronic journal focusing purely on poetry to come out of Australia. This journal is edited and produced at Box Hill Institute, Melbourne.

Writer, teacher, journalist and academic Carolyne Lee is Editor, Alastair Rosie is Production Editor, and poet and academic Dr Jordie Albiston is Poetry Editor.

We cordially invite you to browse through the works and words of some of the best contemporary poets in Australia. Take a break from the fast-spinning light-flashing tyre-screaming chaos of the superhighway, and put your feet up with Divan, Australia's first national online poetry journal.

Carolyne Lee, Alastair Rosie, Jordie Albiston

Did you know that apart from its 'lounge-y' connotation, Divan also signifies an anthology of poetry? (from Turkish, originally from Persian)

Divan is a publication produced at the Box Hill Institute by teachers and students for the purpose of promoting Australian talent. All poems remain the property of the writers and no part shall be reproduced without the express written permission of the respective authors. International copyright laws apply to all material on this page. Divan is the property of Box Hill Institute and international copyright laws apply forthwith.