Vale Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Chris Wallace-Crabbe on 16 December 2025. Chris was born in Melbourne in 1934 and spent most of his life in that city.
Issue 43
Looking Out From Chris Wallace-Crabbe. A poem by T.A.R. Wallace
T.A.R. Wallace (he/his) is a yoga therapist and table tennis coach living on Dja Dja Wurrung country, Australia. His poems have been published in The Brussels Review, Conduit, Big Score Lit, The Poetry Lighthouse, Meanjin, Heat, Australian Poetry Journal, and others. He won the Lane Cove Literary Awards Poetry Prize 2023.
Susan Hawthorne: Three Poems in Epic Style
Susan Hawthorne is a poet, novelist and publisher who lives and works on Djiru Country in Far North Queensland. Her most recent books are the novel Dark Matters and the poetry collection The Sacking of the Muses. Her book Cow was shortlisted for the Audre Lorde Poetry Prize and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize.
The crunch, the rhyme, the echo: Kate Ennals launches ‘Tidal’ by Karen J McDonnell
I can feel Karen’s notions swirl about in all her poems. Each stanza is like a stork landing a bag of words to shape and make a coherent form from a dream or a thought. I like how each poem makes sense of a thought and brings it to life.
Vale Joan Cahill – David Gilbey pays tribute
Rochford Street Review was sadden to learn of the death of Joan Cahill. David Gilbey, President, Booranga Writers’ Centre, provided the following tribute to Joan.
Welcome to 2026
After using the last few weeks to tidy up the residue of 2025 and getting ourselves as organised as we can, Rochford Street Review is back for another year of independent publishing in 2026.
An Update on the Sixth Annual Keep Rochford Street Alive Appeal
Thanks to our wonderful readers and supporters we have raised enough to pay our yearly web-hosting, email and storage subscriptions, which means we will be around for at least another 12 months.
Compulsive readability: Bron Bateman Launches ‘Gold Digger’ by Lisa Collyer.
In reading Lisa Collyer’s poetry collection, Gold Digger, I was struck by how she writes poems that are battle-line hardy, staunchly feminist, with a working-class sensibility and a gendered understanding of both out-of-home work and the domestic sphere
Vale Susan Adams
The editors of Rochford Street Review were sadden to learn of the death of poet Susan Adams on Monday 7 December. The day before her partner, Les Wicks, had read some of her poems at the launch of Te Purere/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets.
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