Collaboration: Pete Spence and Cornelis Vleeskens

We have archived Issue 40 of Rochford Street Review,  and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011, at   https://rochfordstreetreview.com/previous-issues/

Featured Artist: Pete Spence

• Pete Spence: 4 Visual Poems

Reviews

• Where meaning lies: Small Epiphanies by David Terelinck reviewed by Kimberly K. Williams
• Insouciant, devil-may-care chutzpah: Jennifer Compton reviews G-d, Sleep and Chaos by Alan Fyfe
• A sense of arrival: Claire Gaskin reviews Coming to nothing by Morgan Yasbincek
• Marvelous, resonant and surreal moments: Mark Mahemoff reviews Devotional Poems by Graham Henderson
• Unearthing what has been buried: Angela Costi reviews Earlier by Rosanna E. Licari

Launches

• Tight, decisive, purposeful and deliberate: Emilie Zoey Baker launches Tight Bindings by Sarah Temporal
• The ubiquitous becomes sublime: Adrienne Eberhard launches undercurrents by Jane Williams
• Compelling honesty and stark precision: Sarah Temporal launches The Pentridge Trilogy
• A gentle, subtly joyful collection: Amanda Anastasi launches Rural Ecologies by Michael Leach
• Following her own breath: Jennifer Harrison launches Remarkable as Breathing by Rose Lucas
• Words of wonder, curiosity and awe: Angela Costi launches Stars Like Salt by Cathy Altmann
• Alchemy of the Sun by Margaret Bradstock book launch
  • A significant voice in Australian poetry: Louise Wakeling on Margaret Bradstock’s new poetry collection Alchemy of the Sun
  • Observations of everything: Marcelle Freiman launches Margaret Bradstock’s Alchemy of the Sun
• The Heart of the Human Quest for Enlightenment: Judith Beveridge launches The Diwan of Nawid by Mal McKimmie
• A delight in language: Jean Kent launches nibs & nubs by Josh Stenberg.
• Moments of true contact: Peter Minter launches Undercoat: Poems about Paintings by Mark O’Flynn

Poetry/Prose

• Lea Cameron: 5 Poems
• Strider Marcus Jones: 5 Poems
• Colleen Keating: Two Canticles
• Matt Creighton: 5 Poems
• Audrey Molloy: 3 Poems
• Les Wicks: 5 Poems
• David Ades: 3 Poems
• Andrew Taylor: 3 Poems

Visual Arts

• Tony Twigg – ‘The Wisdom of Infants’ with poetry by Mike Ladd

Essays

• Michael Witts on The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: A Personal Revision

Obituary

• Vale Eric Beach
• Vale Breda Wall Ryan
• Vale Gina Ghioni

P76 Issue 9

• P76 Issue 9 – poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora / odyssey. On-line Edition
• P76 Issue 9 – poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora / odyssey – Melbourne launch

Bloomsday 2024

• Bloomsday at the Gaelic Club, Sydney.
• Bloomsday Feature: ‘Dublin You Are’ by Stephen James Smith
• Bloomsday Feature: ‘Penelope’: A poem by Nathanael O’Reilly
• Bloomsday Feature: ‘The Citizen’s Wife’ a Poetry Film by Molly Twomey, for Ulysses 2.2
• Bloomsday Feature. ‘Cities that are not Dublin’ by Mark Roberts
• Bloomsday Feature. ‘The Light Far From the Hill’. A poem by Linda Adair
• Bloomsday Feature: A deep appreciation for Joyce’s rebellious and seditious themes. Professor Michael Farrell introduces Gabrielle Carey’s James Joyce A Life
• Bloomsday Feature: The beauty and the strangeness: Russell Smith launches James Joyce: A Life by Gabrielle Carey