A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
As a political refugee, Garrido-Salgado is essentially a travelling poet, and his suitcase of words creates and reimagines home through the act of writing a poem. The dilemma of writing a poem is considered from many angles, including the key concern that the dual tools of his trade, Spanish and English, are the language of the coloniser.
Lo reminds us that “Without the woman at the kitchen sink, / nothing is possible”, and exhorts us, “(For goodness sake, pick up a teatowel, start drying!)”
Kate Lumley is a Sydney-based writer. Kate’s poetry and prose has been published in journals including Studio, Not very Quiet, Rochford Street Review and anthologies including Australian Love Poems 2013; Prayers of a Secular World; To end all wars; Avant la lettre; Messages from the Embers; Australian Poetry Collection and a chapbook View from the Bridge.
David Nash was born in County Cork and lives between Ireland and Chile. He completed his MA in Writing in Goldsmiths, University of London in 2010, where he won the Pat Kavanagh award for Best Portfolio, the first poet to do so. Since then he has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Stinging Fly, Modern Queer Poets, The White Review, Propel, and the Dedalus anthology Local Wonders.
This interview with Mark Roberts by Tina Giannoukos was broadcast on 3CR on Thursday, 21 September 2023 as part of Spoken Word: a program dedicated to the eclectic world of poetry and performance
Jane’s poems are the paintings and portraits of a person watching the difficult moments of their life happening. There is always a part of every poet that remains an observer, even at the worst extremity, that stands apart to watch what is happening.
Alison Flett, 1965-2023.
A tribute by Heather Taylor Johnson.
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We have archived Issue 37 of Rochford Street Review, which included the 2023 Sonic Poetry Festival Supplement, and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011, at our previous issues page.
Robyn Rowland, an Irish-Australian citizen, has been living between Ireland and Victoria for over 30 years, and working in Turkey since 2009. In December 2019 she returned to NSW, caring for her father who died 2 years later at 102. She has 14 books, 11 of poetry, most recently Under This Saffron Sun – Safran Güneşin ltında, (Knocknarone Press, Ireland 2019) and This Intimate War Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 – İçli Dışlı Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/Çanakkale 1915 (FIP, 2015; repub. Spinifex Press, Australia, 2018), bilingual with Turkish translations by Mehmet Ali Çelikel. Mosaics from the Map came out in 2018 (Doire Press, Ireland).
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