Vale Antigone Kefala
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Antigone Kefala a week after winning the 2022 Patrick White Award. We were looking to published an account of her award win, instead we are now honouring her life.
Obituary
Vale Tim Thorne – Poet and activist.
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of poet Tim Thorne on the 16 September in Launceston. Tim was one of Australia’s leading poets, a lifelong socialist activist, a former President of TAP into a Better Tasmania (formerly Tasmanians Against a Pulp Mill) and a former President of the SEARCH Foundation.
The time of white heat that fueled an era: Suzanne Bellamy remembers Kate Jennings
Since Kate Jennings’s death in May this year, I have had long thoughtful conversations with Barbara Levy, who like me, knew Kate well in that fierce early 1970’s cauldron. Our focus always is that slim period when so much happened at Sydney Women’s Liberation, at 67 Glebe Point Rd and the short period in Glebe until Kate left Australia about 1978 and settled in New York.
Vale Kate Jennings
Rochford Street Review was saddened to hear of the death of Kate Jennings in New York on 1 May this year.
Vale Loretta Hemensley
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the recent death of Loretta Hemensley. Loretta along with husband Kris were central to the literary scene in Melbourne, and indeed around Australia and beyond, for decades through their involvement in Collected Works Bookshop.
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