Issue 36 – 2023:1 has been archived
We have archived Issue 36 of Rochford Street Review and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011, at https://rochfordstreetreview.com/previous-issues/
Issue 36
Making it clear: Mark Mahemoff reviews ‘Our Ways On Earth’ by Peter Bakowski
As it says on the back of his latest book, Our Ways on Earth, “His key aims as a poet remain—to write as clearly as possible and to make his next poem different from the last.”
Creative Collaboration: Margaret O’Brien launches ‘Some Days the Bird’ by Anne Casey and Heather Bourbeau
The collection, Some Days the Bird, is the result of Anne and Heather’s pandemic collaboration across the globe. Anne and Heather wrote poems to each other weekly during 2021, the second year of the pandemic, to and from opposite hemispheres and seasons. When I say wrote, I mean handwritten, posted, by snail mail.
Linda Adair talks poetry, colonisation and uncovering hidden histories with Tina Giannoukos.
A poet, publisher of Rochford Press and co-editor of Rochford Street Review, as well as an emerging artist, Linda Adair grew up on Dharug country without knowing whose land she stood on. She now lives and works on Dharug and Gundungarra lands in the Blue Mountains, Australia, and pays her respect to the Traditional Custodians of the unceded Country which always was, and always will, be Aboriginal land. Her debut poetry collection, The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering, was published in 2020 by Melbourne Poets Union.
Margaret O’Brien: 3 Poems
Margaret O’Brien co-founded The Story House Ireland (2014 – 2018) and formerly lectured in English and Creative Writing at Waterford Institute of Technology (now SETU). Her book, Weather Report: a 90-day journal for reflection and well-being, with the aid of the Beaufort Wind Scale was published in 2022. She is an affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists and is the Ireland editor for the US based literary magazine, Trasna. She curates the annual Brewery Lane Writers’ W/E and the monthly open mic, Poetry Plus, in Brewery Lane Theatre, Carrick-on-Suir and runs her own workshops, Writing Changes Lives, both in person and online.
Iain Britton: from theatre of the surreal
Iain Britton is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet and author of several poetry collections. Poems have been published in such magazines as Southerly, Landfall, Cordite, Heat, Harvard Review, Poetry, The New York Times, Stand, Agenda, New Statesman, Prototype, New Humanist. THE INTAGLIO POEMS was published in the UK by Hesterglock Press 2017. A new chapbook – Project Constellation – has just been launched by the London publisher Sampson Low.
Imagery and music: Maurice Devitt launches ‘Riptide’ by Amanda Bell
While thematically very consistent with her previous collections, I think the poetry in Riptide is bolder and asks more questions of the reader. Amanda has something of a magpie-mind. Interested in and inquisitive about everything, she seeks to better understand every aspect of our world, no matter how small, and our pivotal role in it
Aspects of a conflicted past: Margaret Bradstock reviews ‘Spirit Level’ by Marcelle Freiman
Spirit Level: the balance between two worlds, two lives, between memory and the lived past. In this, her third collection of poetry, Marcelle Freiman continues to explore, in greater depth, themes arising from her earlier books, White Lines (Vertical) and Monkey’s Wedding.
Vale Ron Pretty
It is with sadness that Rochford Street Review learnt of the death of Poet, Publisher and Editor Ron Pretty on 30 June 2023.
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