Carol Archer -Take a breath (Garigal National Park Walk II) 2020, charcoal and watercolour. 

We have archived Issue 41 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: Carol Archer

• Carol Archer: Biographical Statement

Reviews

• A common humanity: Michael Witts reviews Steep Curve by Robyn Rowland
• A patient reverence for the continuity of time: Lyn Chatham reviews The Seal Woman by Beverley Farmer
• Breaking rules: Beatriz Copello reviews Breaking Plates directed by Karen Pearlman
• Capturing the human condition: Colleen Keating reviews Natural Light by David Atkinson
• Vivid word pictures: Rosemary Nissen-Wade reviews My Animal Life by Elspeth Findlay
• A wild ride: Mike Ladd reviews Tadpoems 400 Shorts by Tug Dumbly
• In the paddock of your own dreams: Ali Whitelock reviews Snail Mail Cursive by James Walton

Launches

• Documenting poetic reactions: D. G. Lloyd launches Filmworks by Brian Purcell
• Mining for the ineffable in the most ordinary of spaces: Lucy Dougan launches G-d, Sleep and Chaos by Alan Fyfe
• Fierce and poignant: John Bennett launches Stranded by Bronwyn Rodden
  The Geelong launch of Steep Curve by Robyn Rowlands
  • Celebrating poetry: Carmel Macdonald-Grahame introduces Robyn Rowlands
  • Extraordinary skill, intimacy, generosity, and beauty: Maria Takolander launches Steep Curve by Robyn Rowlands
• The recreation of memory: Mark Roberts launches Some Dualities and 28 Sonnets by Michael Witts
• Vivid world building: Richard James Allen launches The Book of Jeremiah by Beatriz Copello
• Lithe eloquence & lyric originality: Anne Carson launches The Flowering Dark by Sue Lockwood
• Peering through portholes: Rose van Son launches A Gentle Outward Breath by Fran Graham
• A slow reassembling of pieces: Adrienne Eberhard launches Afterlife by Kathryn Lomer
• Highly polished, subtle and filmic : Anne Casey launches Separation Blues: Poems 1994-2024 by Nathanael O’Reilly
• Love of the small, beautiful details: Jane Frank launches Small Epiphanies by David Terelinck
• A rich, hybrid environment. Judith Beveridge talks to Jean Kent and Martin Kent about Paris Light
• The necessity for resisting complacency: Gina Mercer launches Calibrating Home by Helen Swain

Poetry/Prose

• Luke Morgan: 5 Poems
• John Jenkins: Windy, Moonlit Night
• Timothy Loveday: Holiday
• Beatriz Copello: 3 Poems from The Book of Jeremiah
• Bronwyn Rodden: 5 Poems
• Rose van Son: 4 Poems
• Ma Yongbo: 6 Poems
• Ciarán O’Rourke: 5 Poems
• Helen Swain: 5 Poems from Calibrating Home
• Jennifer Harrison: 6 Poems

Visual Arts

• Hope & Beauty: Bronwyn Rodden previews Yurruun.ga Wetlands – an album

Obituary

• Vale Jan Dean

Interviews

• A bucket list of things: Richard James Allen interviews David Adès
• A rich, hybrid environment. Judith Beveridge talks to Jean Kent and Martin Kent about Paris Light

Essays

Francis Webb Centenary – 8 February 2025

• • Something Absolutely Splendid – Robert Adamson on Francis Webb
  • Colleen Keating: Two Canticles