A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Yasmine Gooneratne was a poet, a writer of short stories and novels, and a literary critic, editor and reviewer. Born in Sri Lanka in 1935, while the country was still known as ‘Ceylon’, she was educated at Bishops College School for Girls and the University of Peradeniya, where she was a dedicated student of English literature.
Devika Brendon is a teacher, reviewer and editor of English language and literature. Her poetry, short stories and academic articles have been published in journals and anthologies in Sri Lanka, Australia, India, Africa, Italy and the USA
Alison Flett, 1965-2023.
A tribute by Heather Taylor Johnson.
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Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby.
It is with sadness that Rochford Street Review learnt of the death of Poet, Publisher and Editor Ron Pretty on 30 June 2023.
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.
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.
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.
Rochford Street Review was saddened to hear of the death of Kate Jennings in New York on 1 May this year.