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Alison J Barton is widely published in Australian and international literary journals. Her poetry has been recognised in numerous prizes. In both 2022 and 2023, Alison’s work appeared in Best of Australian Poems. She was the inaugural winner of the 2023 University of Cambridge First Nations Writer-in-Residence Fellowship. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Not Telling, will be published this year with Puncher & Wattmann.
The theme of 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival ‘Poetry that sounds like all of us! welcomes poets to share, listen, and put diverse points of view. Similarly, Rochford Press invited submissions that responded to Poetries of place / displacement / diaspora/odyssey and we were bowled over by the submissions which came in from writers from a range of communities, both here and internationally.
Rochford Street Review Issue 40 will go on hold for a few weeks to allow for the publication of the on-line edition of P76 Issue 9 Poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora/ odyssey.
Over 45 years Les Wicks has performed widely across the globe. Published in over 450 different magazines, anthologies & newspapers across 36 countries in 15 languages. Les conducts workshops & runs Meuse Press which focuses on poetry outreach projects like poetry on buses & poetry published on the surface of a river. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken – New & Selected (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022).
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unpublished
visual poems
by Pete Spence
The Wisdom of Infants. A suite of 6 pictures (enamel on timber construction) by Tony Twigg
with poetry by Mike Ladd
P76 Issue 9 – poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora / odyssey – will be launched as part of the 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival on Tuesday 27 August at 6.30pm at the Bergy Bandroom, 64 Sydney Road, Brunswick, VIC, 3056.
Devotional is a difficult collection to read. It is dark and pessimistic. But many lines glint with beauty.
David Adès is the author of Mapping the World, Afloat in Light, and the chapbook Only the Questions Are Eternal. David won the Wirra Wirra Vineyards Short Story Prize 2005. Mapping the World was commended for the FAW Anne Elder Award 2008. David’s poems have been read on the Australian radio poetry program Poetica and on the U.S. radio poetry program Prosody. David’s poetry has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has won the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize and has been twice shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize.
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