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Like all truly satisfying works of art, Al is in possession of an auteur vision. He’s managed to pull all the disparate and quirky aspects of his reading and dreaming life (dreams are very important in this book) – he’s managed to pull all that into a persuasive whole, into poems that are small journeys, atmospheres or theatres through which a reader can roam.
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death recently of Jan Dean. With permission we republish the tribute to Jan by Clark Gormley which first appeared in Hunter Living Histories.
Luke Morgan is a poet from Galway, Ireland. His third collection Blood Atlas is new from Arlen House in 2025. He is the recipient of the 29th Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award.
John Jenkins is a widely travelled writer living on Melbourne’s semi-rural fringe, near the Yarra Valley. His most recent books are Poems Far and Wide, Puncher and Wattmann, 2019; a collection of self-illustrated nonsense poems, Busybird Publishing, 2021; A Double Act, poems co-written with Ken Bolton, Puncher and Wattmann, 2022; The Sky Inside Us, Ginninderra Press, 2022.
This is a collection brimming with life, love and humour. These poems assert their independence while acknowledging their cohesion. They are parts of a greater whole.
Tim Loveday is a poet, writer, educator and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation, rurality and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize and the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Bronwyn’s poems are alive, they talk to us. Often as quiet presences that draw us into a life from childhood on. She left home early. Her poems can be fierce and poignant regarding family dynamics.
Dr Beatriz Copello is a well-known reviewer, writer and poet, she is also known for her sense of humour.
Kevin Higgins was a great friend of Rochford Street Review. We would love to be able to make this launch but will need to content ourselves with reading the book once launched. If you are anywhere near Galway make sure you are there!
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