Issue 38
A strong and engaging movement: Andrew Taylor reviews ‘Ghosts of Paradise’ by Stephen Edgar.
Stephen Edgar’s newest book is his thirteenth over thirty eight years, and follows from his much acclaimed The Strangest Place: New and Selected Poems 2020, which won The Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2021.
The Fourth Annual Rochford Street Review Keep Alive Appeal
As of today, Friday 22 December 2023, we have $246.14 available. We need $459.00 by 2 January 2024 if we are to stay on line for another 12 months – a shortfall of $212.86.
Drucilla Wall 5 Poems
Drucilla Wall was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, her M.A. from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She taught poetry and essay writing, and Native American literature, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis until 2020.
Eamonn Wall 5 Poems
Eamonn Wall is a native of Co. Wexford, Ireland, who has lived in the US since 1982: in Wisconsin, New York City, Nebraska, and for the past twenty years in St. Louis. His books of poetry and prose include My Aunts at Twilight Poker (2023) Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015 ; From the Sin-e Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish (University of Wisconsin Press. 2000); Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (Notre Dame, 2011).
Lauren O’Donovan 6 Poems
Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork, Ireland. In 2023, she won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award and the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry. Lauren’s work has been shortlisted for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award, Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, and the Fish Poetry Prize.
The trajectory of a life: Margaret Bradstock reviews ‘But Now’ by Phyllis Perlstone
Phyllis Perlstone’s most recent poetry collection, But Now, celebrates the trajectory of a life. The preface alerts us to the scenario we are about to enter, from the time of the second world war, through the Great Depression, to a life-style in modern-day Barangaroo.
Rich & Provocative: Alice Wanderer launches ‘The Routledge Global Haiku Reader’
While the essays are primarily discursive, The Routledge Global Haiku Reader can also be read as an informal anthology aimed at unsettling conventional and often highly defended notions of what haiku is.
Mal McKimmie: Poems from Green Sonnets
Mal McKimmie is the author of 3 poetry collections, the most recent being At the Foot of the Mountain (Puncher & Wattmann, 2021). His second book, The Brokenness Sonnets I-III & Other Poems (Five Islands Press, 2011), won the 2012 Age Poetry Book of the Year award.
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