Grant Bellamy, Unalloyed, 2023, Oil on wood board.

We have archived Issue 39 of Rochford Street Review,  and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011, at  https://rochfordstreetreview.com/previous-issues/

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Featured Artist: Grant Bellamy

• Grant Bellamy: Artistic Statement

Reviews

• Presence & absence: Matt Hetherington reviews Seams of Repair by Stephanie Green
• The remembered territory of the past: Mark O’Flynn reviews Feldspar by Brendan Ryan
• The pains of many difficult situations. Leone Gabrielle Reviews Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
• Uncommon thinking for common people: Heather Taylor-Johnson reviews Hear the Art: Visual poetry as sculpture by Richard Tipping
• A Condition That Gives Mysterious Abilities: Devika Brendon reviews Oh My Rapture by Gemma White
• Unseen Stories of Women: Miriam Wei Wei Lo reviews If There is a Butterfly that Drinks Tears by Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon

Launches

• Grace and dexterity: Les Wicks Launches Ellen Shelley’s Out of the Blocks
• Making Sorties into the Unknown: Brook Emery launches Tide by Ivy Ireland
• Creatures, colours, textures and scents: Lucy Dougan launches the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness by Marcella Polain and coming to nothing by Morgan Yasbincek
• An exploration of deep connections: Magdalena Ball launches Tarp Green Light by Carl Walsh
• A book full of wisdom: Susan Hawthorne launches The Good-Hearted Gardeners by Suniti Namjoshi.
• An anthology of the textual & visual work of feminists: Anna Couani launches Portraits of Women by Dina Tourvas
• A deep appreciation for Joyce’s rebellious and seditious themes. Professor Michael Farrell introduces Gabrielle Carey’s James Joyce A Life
• The beauty and the strangeness: Russell Smith launches James Joyce: A Life by Gabrielle Carey
• A dynamic web: Alice Wanderer launches A Ghost Gum Leans Over by Myron Lysenko

Poetry/Prose

• Jeanna Ní Ríordáin: 5 Poems
• Noel Purdon: 7 Poems
• Margaret Bradstock: 3 Poems
• Chad Norman: 3 Poems 
• The Birth of the Universe’: A poem by Ivy Ireland
• Robbie Coburn 7 Poems
• Dorothy Lune: 3 Poems
• ‘Everything Is Inverse’: a poem by Devika Brendon (for Yasmine Gooneratne)
• Gayelene Carbis 8 Poems
• ‘Whipcord’: a poem by David Atkinson
• Denise O’Hagan: 3 Poems

Essays

• A Death by Any Other Name? David Gilbey on the crisis facing Booranga Writers’ Centre

Obituary

• ‘Bring Me The Firmness Of Her Hand’: Tribute to Yasmine Gooneratne by Devika Brendon

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