Quaver: Music and Text – Loom Literary Journal Launch

Manisha Anjali is the author of Naag Mountain (Giramondo, 2024). She is one half of Whelk, an ambient music and poetry collaboration with Genevieve Fry.

Ender Başkan is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, small-press publisher and bookseller. The the winner of the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, his poems have been published in HEAT, Meanjin, Cordite, Unusual Work and Best of Australian Poems. He has also published a novel, A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man. He is the co-founder of Vre Books press, Agog poetry readings and Study, an experimental space. His forthcoming poetry collection Two Hundred Million Musketeers will be published by Giramondo.

Greer Clemens is a writer, library technician and musician from Melbourne.

Genevieve Fry is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Naarm. Interested in exploratory music drawing inspiration from the natural world, their soundscapes encourage an inward journey touching on deep time, memory and sense of place. In both solo and collaborative contexts across the experimental, contemporary, and improvisation scenes, Genevieve layers textures of harp, recorder, synthesizer and voice. Genevieve is the co-founder of Eastmint artist run studios, label and performance space which focuses on presenting and supporting music that promotes deep listening from a diverse range of artists across all genres.

Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐) is a Chinese-Aotearoa writer and composer based in Naarm. Their work features in Auckland University Press’s New Poets 11. They are the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellow, and the winner of the 2023 Kill Your Darlings Non-Fiction Prize. They are also the recipient of a 2025 Creative New Zealand Fellowship, a 2025 Red Room Poetry Varuna Fellowship and the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship. Their name in Chinese means ‘Little Happy’, but can also be read as ‘Little Music’.