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Planning J Saw is an Australian-born, Singapore-raised, and Malaysian-heritage young artist. Navigating his roots and branches has been perhaps the only constant in his life. Therefore, he endeavours to speak firmly to himself and, by extension, to communities through poetry.
Caroline lives and works in the city of Belém, in the state of Pará, the heart of the Amazon region in the north of Brazil // is a multi-arts, afro-amazonian, lesbian and black curator of the FID – Forum International Dance // has several degrees and publishes her works regularly // tries to show that, against the outdated, traditional pictures that mass media produces, the state of Pará, has a strong tradition in contemporary arts, especially photography, literature, performing arts and music.
Lisa Collyer is a writer and educator in Boorloo. She is the author of the poetry collection, How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, which was short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award and is published with Gazebo Books/Life Before Man. She is widely published and was a recent writer in residence for City of Swan, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre, The National Trust of W.A. and W.A. Poets Inc.
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.
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.
Issue 8 of P76 Literary Magazine was launched on 10 September at the Bergy Seltzer Bandroom in Brunswick Victoria as part of the 2023 Sonic Poetry Festival
Rochford Street Review. Sonic Poetry Festival . P76 Issue 8 Pre-Launch Sale Offer. Leading up to the launch we are offer a special pre-launch offer to buy a copy of P76 Issue 8 at the special price of $15.50 including postage.
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