Beatriz Copello: 5 Poems from ‘No Salami Fairy Bread’

by Admin on November 5, 2023November 5, 2023

Dr Beatriz Copello, is an award-winning writer and a former member of NSW Writers Centre Management Committee. She writes poetry, reviews, fiction and plays. Her poetry books include Women Souls and Shadows, Meditations At the Edge of a Dream, Flowering Roots, Under the Gums Long Shade, Witches Women and Words and Lo Irrevocable del Halcon and Renacer en Azul (In Spanish). Other books include Copello are: A Call to the Stars, Forbidden Steps Under the Wisteria and Beyond the Moons of August (Her Doctoral Thesis). Her latest collection of poetry is No Salami Fairy Bread.

Beyond the realm of evocative descriptiveness: Ross Gillett launches ‘The Light Café’ by Diane Fahey

by Admin on November 4, 2023November 5, 2023

The Light Café is a book in four sections, each headed by a stunning Dickinson quote, and one of the sections is a rain sequence, while elsewhere in the book are cloud sequences together with marvellous imagery of atmospheric effects – all of this rendered, along with the sky, the moon and the sun and the movements of air, with transformative close attention.

Hold on to resilience: Colleen Keating launches ‘No Salami Fairy Bread’ by Beatriz Copello

by Admin on October 28, 2023October 28, 2023

This is not an ordinary collection of poetry . It is the story of a life in poetry, a funny and poignant story written in poetic form. It follows the poets migratory life as a young woman, without English, who had to carry the early resistance of family

A time of silence

by Admin on October 27, 2023October 27, 2023

As writers and publishers the concept of having a voice is front and centre, and the denial of a voice is an attack on human rights.

A rendering of threats: Stephanie Green reviews ‘Critical State’ by B. R. Dionysius

by Admin on October 4, 2023October 4, 2023

The poetry of B. R. Dionysius in Critical State holds continuity and rupture in tension as he explores the encroachments of the Anthropocene on distinctive Queensland regional environments

2023 Sonic Poetry Festival Supplement Contents.

by Admin on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

While the Sonic Poetry Festival may be over the on-line festival supplement will remain on-line as a reminder of a successful event. Congratulations to everyone who took place and, a big shout out to the organisers!

Mark Mahemoff: 3 Poems

by Admin on September 24, 2023September 24, 2023

Mark Mahemoff is an Australian poet, critic, and psychotherapist. His next book, Beautiful Flames (Flying Islands Press), will be published later this year.

The smell of a oily rag. Rochford Street Review needs a little help…

by Admin on September 23, 2023September 23, 2023

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The Significance of Rain: Margaret Bradstock reviews ‘Swimmer in the Dust’ by Ross Gillett

by Admin on September 20, 2023October 29, 2023

Gillett’s land and seascapes convey levels of meaning and receptivity far beyond the literal, and deepen our understanding of the forces that move us.