Five Bells is a significant quarterly journal published by the Poets Union to stimulate poetry discussion and debate through articles and essays on poetry issues and developments. Regular features include 'How Poets Work' by invited poets, news on poetry’s place around Australia and reviews of new releases. Five Bells showcases new poetry from around the country, selected by a different guest editor each issue.

Members of the Poets Union receive Five Bells free along with the quarterly newsletter twoandahalfbells. Libraries and schools are encouraged to subscribe. Individual copies of current and past issues of Five Bells may be purchased at any time. For more information, please contact the Poets Union.

Submissions
Articles are welcomed from members and non-members on the current theme or on other related areas of interest. Five Bells only publishes poetry by Poets Union members and reviews of members’ work. Please note the deadlines below, especially for poetry and themed articles.

Become a member and submit your poems!
If you are a member of the Poets Union you are invited to submit new, unpublished poetry for publication in Five Bells. Please send one poem only per issue, maximum 50 lines.

Poems should be anonymous with title, name and contact details on a separate sheet. Remember to preserve the original as submissions will not be returned. Poems should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
NB poems are not held over issue to issue.

Payment
The Poets Union supports payment of poets at appropriate rates. To this end the Poets Union successfully obtains funding to pay poets reasonable fees for Poets Union monthly readings, presentations in the Australian Poetry Festival, and Poets On Wheels tours. We look forward to gaining additional support to pay poets for publication of poetry and articles in Five Bells but regret that at this stage this is not yet possible.

The current Editors of Five Bells are:
John S Batts, Margaret Bradstock, John Sheppard and Thomas Thorpe.

Where to send
Poetry submissions should be sent in a separate envelope marked 'Attention Guest Editor'.
All submissions should be sent to:

Deadlines
Autumn issue - March 15
Winter issue - June 15
Spring issue - September 15
Summer issue - December 15

Themes
2008
Autumn - Travel Poetry
Winter -
Spring -
Summer - Seasonal Poetry

2007
Autumn -
Winter -
Spring - Political Poetry
Summer -

2006
Autumn - Environment
Winter - 5th Australian Poetry Festival: Between!
Spring - Migration
Summer - HSC Poetry