We have archived Issue 28 of Rochford Street Review and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011, at https://rochfordstreetreview.com/index/. Issue 29 will begin loading in the near future. Once again we will be looking to include as much content as possible that has been impacted by the continuing COVID-19 crisis such as cancelled launches, artists talks etc. Please contact us if you are interested in contributing.
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Featured Artists Issue 28:
…..Fiona Davies
…..Richard Tipping
- Richard Kelly Tipping: Biographical note
- Richard Kelly Tipping: Notes on several of the Lovepoem prints
Reviews
- Reclaiming women’s position in film making history: Sarah St Vincent Welch reviews three films by Karen Pearlman
- Memory as dream, dream as memory: Shirley Lu reviews South in the World by Lisa Jacobson
- The power of words: Henry Briffa reviews Unspeakable by Petr Malapanis
- Words, perception, memory and poetry: John Jenkins reviews Ashbery Mode edited by Michael Farrell
- The Mirrors That We Drape: Deirdre Hines reviews Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital by Kevin Higgins
- Coupling intellect and passion: Dominique Hecq reviews First Blood by Natalie D-Napoleon
- A deep archive: the docupoetry of Jeanine Leane & Natalie Harkin: Mark Prendergast reviews Walk Back Over by Jeanine Leane and Archival-Poetics by Natalie Harkin
Poetry
- Angela Costi: Seven poems
- Nathanael O’Reilly: Four poems from (Un)Belonging
- Justin Lowe: Three Poems
- Sanjeev Sethi: 3 Poems
- Jenny Blackford: Two poems from The Alpaca Cantos
- Behind Closed Doors: A poem by Linda Adair to mark seven years since the Rana Plaza factory collapse
- Irina Frolova: 3 poems
- Victoria Brookman: 2 Poems
- Rozanna Lilley: 2 Poems
- in the silence of the custard a poem by Ali Whitelock
- Robert Adamson reading at the The inaugural ‘Reading the River’ poetry reading, 17 January 2020
- Laurie Duggan reading at the The inaugural ‘Reading the River’ poetry reading, 17 January 2020.
- Anne Casey reading at the the inaugural ‘Reading the River’ poetry reading, 17 January 2020.
- Reading the River March Reading cancelled
Reading the River Virtual readings
- The virtual launch of the second Reading the River reading
- Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Martin Langford
- Three poems with introductions for Reading the River: Martin Langford
- Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Irina Frolova
- Irina Frolova: 3 poems
- Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Richard Kelly Tipping
- Richard Kelly Tipping: Notes on several of the Lovepoem prints
- Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Tricia Dearborn
- Tricia Dearborn: Six poems from Autobiochemistry
- Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Chris Mansell
- Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Les Wicks
Video Poems
- Self-Evacuation, poem by Mark Roberts, film by Lori H. Ersolmaz
- Collectively Counting: A video poem by Stephen James Smith, film by Craig Kenny
- No Words, A video poem by Margaret Clifford, film by Lori H. Ersolmaz
- Chris Mansell Quad #33
- the lactic acid in the calves of your despair: a video poem by Ali Whitelock
- this is coal don’t be afraid: a video poem by Ali Whitelock
Visual Arts
- Michael Glasheen Drawing on the Land: Garigal Country — benefit exhibition
- Behind Closed Doors: A poem by Linda Adair to mark seven years since the Rana Plaza factory collapse
Launches
- A tapestry of exquisite threads: Matthew Stephens launches Sky Swimming by Sylvia Martin
- The Virtual Launch of (Un)belonging by Nathanael O’Reilly featuring Anne Casey: Index
- Gliding between worlds: Anne Casey virtually launches (Un)belonging by Nathanael O’Reilly
- Nathanael O’Reilly: Four poems from (Un)Belonging
- Adeptly aware of gender, class, race and age: Molly Twomey launches Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital by Kevin Higgins
- Eavesdropping on the slipstream of culture: Liana Joy Christensen launches Backyard Listening by Coral Carter
- A generosity of vision: Judy Johnson launches The Alpaca Cantos by Jenny Blackford
- LAUNCHING AIDAN COLEMAN—AIDAN COLEMAN, HIS LAUNCH – Ken Bolton
- Fluid and shifts: Gail Hennessy launches Knitting Mangrove Roots by Kerri Shying
- A celebration of a life lived: Alison Hackett launches Proposition by Arnie Yasinski
- Tricia Dearborn virtually launches the lactic acid in the calves of your despair by Ali Whitelock
- A potent brew of words, rhythm, imagination and truth: Tricia Dearborn launches the lactic acid in the calves of your despair by Ali Whitelock
- Ali Whitelock speaking at the virtual launch of the lactic acid in the calves of your despair
Obituary
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