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