Beatriz Copello: 3 Poems from ‘The Book of Jeremiah’
Dr Beatriz Copello is a well-known reviewer, writer and poet, she is also known for her sense of humour.
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Launch of ‘Life Itself’ by Kevin Higgins – Galway, Ireland April 27 2025
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!
A patient reverence for the continuity of time: Lyn Chatham reviews ‘The Seal Woman’ by Beverley Farmer
The Seal Woman is a novel with a clear narrative arc, albeit a slow-moving one, but overwhelmingly it is a patient reverence for the continuity of time, rhythm of the seasons, the oceans and, of course, its living creatures.
Carol Archer: Biographical Statement
Carol Archer lives on Worimi land near Bulahdelah in the Myall Lakes region of NSW. Her work spans drawing, painting and printmaking and explores her relationship with trees and forests. Such places are especially precious for an artist who spent many years based in the hyper-urban city of Hong Kong.
Breaking rules: Beatriz Copello reviews ‘Breaking Plates’ directed by Karen Pearlman
Breaking Plates is a dramatic silent film embellished by stunning dances which takes the observer to the past through old films of revolutionary women, films made between 1896 and 1926. These women from the old films converse with filmmakers of the present day.
Bronwyn Rodden: 5 Poems
Bronwyn Rodden’s writing is published in literary journals and anthologies in Australia, the UK and the USA. She holds an MA Writing (UTS), was awarded an Emerging Writer Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and a residency at the Writers Cottage, Bundanon. Her most recent collection, Stranded, was published by Flying Islands Press 2024.
Justin Lowe’s ‘San Luis’ launches in Katoomba tonight
Celebrate the launch of Justin Lowe’s poetry collection San Luis on Thursday, April 3rd 7pm, at On The Soul Side Cafe
Celebrating poetry: Carmel Macdonald-Grahame introduces Robyn Rowland
Thanks to the much-appreciated revival of 5 Islands Press, led by poets Mark Tredinnick and Steve Meyrick, we now have Steep Curve. Robyn is meticulous not only about the writing itself, but she is scrupulous about the publication of her poetry. She takes the work of publication seriously and insists on it being perfectly presented on the page. So her books are also beautiful objects.
Extraordinary skill, intimacy, generosity, and beauty: Maria Takolander launches ‘Steep Curve’ by Robyn Rowland
Her assuredness shines through in the extraordinary craft of the poetry—the handling of line, image, enjambment, phrasing, not to mention her voice. But it’s also there in the book’s subject matter, which might be regarded as somewhat remarkable in today’s landscape for its indifference towards the faddish. What I mean to say is that Robyn’s poetry delves, in its assured way, into universal phenomena like aging, family, love, grief, which are explored, of course, from her own deeply personal perspective.
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