We have archived Issue 27 of Rochford Street Review and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011, at https://rochfordstreetreview.com/index/. Issue 28 will begin loading on Monday 30 March. We will be looking to include as much content as possible that has been impacted by the current COVID-19 crisis such as cancelled launches, artists talks etc. Please contact us if you are interested in contributing.
Issue 27
Featured Artist Suzanne Bellamy
- Suzanne Bellamy biographical note
- Artist statement Abstract Machines: Suzanne Bellamy
- Identity and habitat: Biff Ward Launches Time and Place an exhibition by Suzanne Bellamy
Reviews
- Shimmering with exuberance: Devika Brendon reviews Out of emptied cups by Anne Casey
- Soft skin, sharp edges: Genevieve Scanlan reviews Eager to Break by Eliana
- Inventive interplay: Mark Seton reviews The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen
- Cherish, wonder and the want to protect: Angela Costi reviews Green Dance by Jena Woodhouse
- Delicacy and precision: John Carey reviews Son Songs by Tug Dumbly
- Unique imagery – Suroopa Chatterjee reviews Karmic Chanting by Sonnet Mondal
- A novel of fragments, an imagined narrative: Mark Roberts reviews Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi
- Beyond the culturally scripted response: Beth Spencer reviews High Wire Step by Magdalena Ball
- Unsettling voices with texture and cheekiness: Linda Adair reviews the first Slow Loris chapbook series
Poetry
- Nathanael O’Reilly: 6 Poems
- Rodeo Days a video poem by Marie Craven
- Human Resources a video poem by Marie Craven, words by Dave Bonta
- Semi-Automatic Pantoum a video poem by Matt Mullins, in collaboration with the Poetic Justice League of Chicago
- Gordon Meade: 5 Poems
- Jenni Nixon: 6 Poems
- Breda Wall Ryan: 6 Poems
- Penelope Layland: 2 Poems
- Pete Spence: 3 Poems
- Sonnet Mondal : 4 poems
Visual Arts
- Gemes, Crispin & Pollak: Exhibition Preview
- Resilience in Times of Adversity: Contemporary Responses to WW2 in the Blue Mountains 1939-1950
- Resilience in Times of Adversity Curator’s Statement – Vivienne Dadour
- Resilience in times of adversity – Exhibition essay by Anthony Bond
- Haunting and luminous ‘Juno Gemes: The Quiet Activist – A Survey Exhibition 1979-2019’ a response by Linda Adair
- The Now-Present and the Future Presencing of Absence: Moya Costello reviews Fiona Fell & Kellie O’Dempsey Dirt & Ash & Marion Conrow Museum of My Friends #1
- Anna Hayes 4 photographs
Launches
- Uplifting and quietly triumphant: Debra Adelaide launches Portrait of the Artist’s Mother by Fiona Place
- Metaphor and other devices: Alex Skovron launches Libation by Earl Livings
- Power and Necessity: Maria Takolander launches The Arms of Men by John Bartlett
- Delightfully eclectic: Alex Skovron launches Poems Far and Wide by John Jenkins
- Diverse and Colourful: Liana Christensen on the 2019 Creative Connections Poetry Award
- Independence and intimacy: Emma Neale launches Eager to Break by Eliana Gray
- Words like X-rays: Amelia Walker Launches The White Line of Language by Deb Stewart
- An important work: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson launches The Bruise of Knowing by Phyllis Perlstone
- A meditation on time: Melinda Smith launches The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen
- With a political edge: Sandy Jeffs launches The Dialectics of Rain by Karen Throssell
- Notes from a launch: Rules of Engagement by Michael J. Whelan
- A landscape of possibility, positive action and community: Alison Lyssa launches Sculpting a Landscape by Colleen Z Burke
- Condensed lyricism: Ann Vickery launches Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn
- The concept of conscience: Paul Genoni launches A Thousand Tongues by Ian Reid
- The shock of recognition: Jennifer Compton launches The Sacking of the Muses by Susan Hawthorne
Essays
Obituary
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