Issue 40 – 2024:2 has been archived
We have archived Issue 40 of Rochford Street Review, and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011 at our previous issues page.
Issue 40
Lea Cameron: 5 Poems
Lea Cameron grew up in and around Sydney and it’s suburbs at a time when car was king and it was possible that a city may need to ration it’s petrol, and she knew all the lyrics to Dianna Ross’s version of Love Child, by the time she was four years old.
Where meaning lies: ‘Small Epiphanies’ by David Terelinck reviewed by Kimberly K. Williams
David Terelinck’s first book of poetry, Small Epiphanies ( is exactly what the title promises to be: a collection of poems which observes and records daily life. These poems show readers that the examination of the daily is where meaning lies.
Tight, decisive, purposeful and deliberate: Emilie Zoey Baker launches ‘Tight Bindings’ by Sarah Temporal
Over the years, I have watched Sarah write, perform, slam and create beautiful work. I have watched her win multiple awards, and I have watched as she helped pave the way for many young people to do the same. I’m so proud of all she has done and achieved. And now she has this beautiful collection of poems to add to her growing list of achievements.
Insouciant, devil-may-care chutzpah: Jennifer Compton reviews ‘G-d, Sleep and Chaos’ by Alan Fyfe
There were three things that took my attention before I had even cracked this book, as I held it in my hand and turned it this way and that. Firstly, there was no author name or title on the frontispiece. Unusual. Even rare.
The ubiquitous becomes sublime: Adrienne Eberhard launches ‘undercurrents’ by Jane Williams
Undercurrents by Jane Williams’, Ginninderra Press 2023, was launched by Adrienne Eberhard at The Hobart Bookshop on Thursday 29 June 2023.
The Fifth Annual Rochford Street Review Keep Alive Appeal
As we come up to renewal dates for our web hosting and email at the beginning of 2025 Rochford Street Review is once again facing a shortfall in being able to pay our bills and stay on-line. It has been a busy year for us, we have published two large issues as well as launching Issue 9 of the occasional literary journal, P76, as part of the 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival, along with an online supplement. While this year has been exciting, the added costs associated with P76 and organising an interstate launch, has placed added pressure on our finances. It is worth noting that we received no government or institutionalised support yet again in 2024.
Strider Marcus Jones: 5 Poems
Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and former civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. He is the editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal . A member of The Poetry Society, and nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, his five published books of poetry reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms
Compelling honesty and stark precision: Sarah Temporal launches ‘The Pentridge Trilogy’ by Rosemary Nissen-Wade
This extraordinary trilogy comprises: the memoir of her life-changing experiences there, ‘Breaking Into Pentridge Prison: Memories of Darkness and Light’; the re-released anthology of prisoners’ poetry created in those workshops, ‘Blood From Stone’; and a chapbook of Rosemary’s own poems and prose-poems, revealing for the first time the most personal aspect of that story, ‘Letters to a Dead Man’.
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