Texas Fontanella – Erasure 3
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
Issue 33
A remarkable feat of poetic ability: Rachael Mead and Alison Flett launch Rhymes With Hyenas by Heather Taylor Johnson
Rhymes with Hyenas fills me with joy. For so many reasons. I can guarantee it will be unlike anything you have read before. It’s more than a poetry collection. More than an epistolary novel. More than a feminist reclamation of literary history. More than an ode to sisterhood. Yes, it is all these things. But it is so much more.
Pete Spence: 2 Postcards
The first two postcards in a an ongoing series by Pete Spence
Texas Fontanella – Erasure 2
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
Vicky Tsaconas: Six Poems
Vicky Tsaconas lives in Melbourne. Her poetry and prose have been published in the anthologies Southern Sun, Aegean Light and Mothers from the Edge, in Stylus Lit, the Australian Multicultural Writing Project,Transnational Literature, Australian Poetry Journal, Azuria, Hobo Poetry Magazine, & (ampersand) and Unusual Work. Her articles have been published in Australia, Greece and online. Vicky was one of the founding members of Διφωνιες (Difonies) Journal of Greek Australian Thought.
Moving, visceral and beautiful: Leila Lois reviews ‘Disassembling A Dancer’ by Kyeren Regehr.
Disassembling A Dancer is a moving, visceral and beautiful chapbook collection from Canadian Australian writer Kyeren Regehr. It paints the tragic landscape of a dancer’s body, the pain, torment and passion and draws us into the sublime drama of ballet. The artwork by Monica Piloni and Lindsay Beal, as well as the woven ballet ribbon for binding, make this book an exquisite visual as well as literary work of art.
Figurative in Forms: Dr. Rebecca K Law reviews ‘The Fickle Pendulum’ by Paul Scully
A Fickle Pendulum has five parts to its labyrinth of sites and the movement is a progressive shift from the ancient word to the future perfect. Beginning with Part 1, ‘A Tensile Faith’, I find myself unavoidably wrapped up in an image of a stretched out architectural form that is temporary and unimposing
Texas Fontanella – Erasure 1
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
Congratulations Adam Aitken on winning the 2021 Patrick White Award
Rochford Street Review congratulates Dr Adam Aitken who was awarded the 2021 Patrick White Award on 6 December 2021. Adam is a great friend and supporter of the Review and, as co-editor of the first few issues of P76 journal in the early 1980s, was present at the very beginning of Rochford Street Press.
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