Issue 33 has been archived
We have archived Issue 33 of Rochford Street Review and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011, at https://rochfordstreetreview.com/ index/.
Issue 33
Texas Fontanella – Erasure 8
Texas Fontanella lives in the broader Sydney area and erases texts to make new poems from them. Along with Brandstifter he published Black Shores (Text collage on photography) with Redfox Press in 2018
Shh-Shh – a poem by Susie Walsh
Susie Walsh is a poet, writer, and filmmaker based in Braidwood, NSW. She has written scripts for short films screened at film festivals, and for AV installations exhibited in galleries. She is currently working on Palimpsest — a collection of poems, hybrid texts, and reflective essayistic interchapters in response to the lived and multi-layered experiences of drought, the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires, several floods, and existential distress about COVID19. Her poem “Discordant” was in the Solastalgia exhibition (Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 2020); “How I Hold You” is in the What We Carry anthology (Recent Works Press, 2021); and “Rewind Erase Record” will be in the Admissions anthology (Upswell, Oct 2022).
The messiness of desire and freedom: Leila Lois reviews ‘The Pink Book’ by Henry Von Doussa
Simplicity and dedication are two apt words to sum up The Pink Book, a collection of images and memoirs from Henry Von Doussa. The book is a series of personal essays and collages bound in an exquisite coffee-table book; it bursts with colour and nuance yet simplicity and dedication to the characters and stories that lie within.
Pete Spence: 2 Postcards (7 & 8)
Postcards 7 & 8 in a an ongoing series by Pete Spence
Revelling in the possibilities of language: Jackson reviews ‘Listening to Frost’ by Jan Napier
For many years, Jan Napier worked in travelling carnivals, but nowadays she belongs to Perth’s community of poets. To date, she has three full-length books with WA publishers. Listening to Frost complements her haiku book Day Moon (Mulla Mulla Press 2020) and inherits the concerns of her debut collection Thylacine (Regime Books 2015).
Texas Fontanella – Erasure 7
Texas Fontanella lives in the broader Sydney area and erases texts to make new poems from them. Along with Brandstifter he published Black Shores (Text collage on photography) with Redfox Press in 2018
Pete Spence: 2 Postcards (5 & 6)
Postcards 5 & 6 in a an ongoing series by Pete Spence
An exquisite subtlety: Annee Lawrence reviews ‘What the river told me’ by Jane Skelton
In Jane Skelton’s What the river told me there is a strong connection to place, landscape, the natural environment, and the human trace on it.
Many of the poems were written during a 2018 writing residency in Northumberland, England; on travels to Scotland where Jane was conducting research on the early life of the colonial entrepreneur Ben Boyd; and then at Boydtown near Eden on the south coast of New South Wales where a tower is testimony to a man’s ambition to build a town.
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