Vale Barbara Brooks
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Barbara Brooks on 29 October 2026.
Issue 45
An expansiveness awareness of the reach and role of poetry: Emilie Collyer launches ‘Notes on the Rock of Job Charnock’ by Jaydeep Sarangi
The words that come to mind when reading this collection and afterwards are rhythm, music and movement. The book, as Jaydeep himself states in the introduction is thematically based around ‘Kolkata; the city, its heritage, history, people and landscape’
This AusArtsDay support Rochford Street Review
Thursday 22 October is, apparently, AusArts Day. A Creative Australia initiative AusArts Day is “a nationwide, sector-wide fundraising initiative designed to mobilise artists and arts organisations to raise funds for their work and creative ambitions on a single, powerful day”.
Moments of suspension: Peter Kirkpatrick launches ‘Time and Motion: New and Selected Poems’ by Julian Croft
Though it’s a while since he lived there, Julian Croft is quintessentially a poet of Newcastle, of both its beaches and its industrial and maritime past.