A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
The overall impact of reading Bradstock’s deft, mature work is of a poetic finesse and clarity in poems engaging with the overriding importance of time – as different manifestations of time – and of place and exploration.
As Audrey Lorde writes, ‘Poetry is not a Luxury’, for Morgan Yasbincek poetry is a tool for survival of living agency and a means of deep enquiry into the foundational.
With P76 published and with different versions out in both the physical and virtual world, we can now return to the backlog of work waiting for Rochford Street Review. Issue 40 will continue through to the end of the year and Issue 41 will commence in January 2025.
P76 issue 9: Poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora/ odyssey was launched as part of the 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival on Tuesday evening 27 August 2024 at Bergy Bandroom, Brunswick, Victoria.
Mark Roberts is a writer, critic and publisher living on unceded Darug and Gundungurra land. He is co-editor, along with Linda Adair, of Rochford Street Review. His last poetry collection, Concrete Flamingos, was published by Island Press in 2016. His next collection, The Office of Literary Endeavours, will be published by 5 Islands Press in 2025.
Linda Adair is a poet and a publisher of Rochford Press, and co-editor of Rochford Street Review and a (re)emerging artist.
Angela Costi is known as Αγγελικη Κωστη among the Cypriot diaspora, which is her heritage and ancestry. She lives on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung unceded land. She is the author of five poetry collections. Her most recent chapbook is Adversarial Practice, Cordite Poetry Review, 2024.
Brent Cantwell is a New Zealand-born poet who writes, teaches and lives with his family in the hinterland of Queensland’s Gold Coast. He has recently been published in Jacaranda Journal, Westerly Magazine and Takahe. His first collection of poetry ether was published by Recent Work Press in October 2023.