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The recently published chapbook, Each Night I Count my Children: Poems from Gaza, is one example of how poetry has survived in the rubble of Gaza and, indeed, how it has become an essential part of the struggle to keep Palestinian society and culture alive.
We have had a big year at Rochford Street Review, publishing almost 100 reviews, articles and creative works by writers and artists so far.
Amanda Anastasi was commissioned to write a poetic call to action for COP30 that was a clear, urgent summary of climate impacts across the Oceania region. It was written in response to speakers ranging from policy experts to Indigenous elders at the Global Ethical Stocktake (GES) – Oceania Region.
In Incandescence, Susan has crafted a collection that arises from the everyday, while expanding into the universal. These themes of parenting, caregiving, surviving a pandemic, holding a marriage together, walking through grief, and making space for joy, even amid exhaustion, mean that her poems glow with warmth and insight, even when they explore moments of deep difficulty.
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are The Colour of Extinction (Renard Press, October 2024) and An Ocean Called Hope (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
Fionnbharr Rodgers is an Irish historian and poet who has had work published in History Ireland, Ireland’s Own, The Irish Times, Northern Slant, A New Ulster, Blackbird, Blackbox Manifold, and Stoneboat Literary Journal.
Mark Mahemoff remembers Robert Gray (1945-2025).
The concept of a basic income, a regular and unconditional payment to individuals, has been a subject of debate for decades. In recent years, a specific application of this idea has gained traction: a basic income for artists.
A Dodds poem may be as likely to be set in a classroom as on a farm paddock as on a film screen. It may take the form of couplets, stepped stanzas, a concrete poem, a list or even an erasure.
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