Revelations In The Quiet Carriage: Devika Brendon reviews ‘The Office Of Literary Endeavours’ by Mark Roberts
This is a jewel of a collection, full of elemental images and resonant engagement with country, history and human feeling.
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The immediacy of the message: Mark Roberts reviews ‘Each Night I Count My Children: Poems From Gaza’
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.
The violence of erasure: Les Wicks launches ‘The Office of Literary Endeavours’ by Mark Roberts
The poetry is carefully crafted and elegant. The subject matter is wide ranging… richly brought to life within the forms Roberts has chosen. Reading through this collection has been a privilege and a delight.
Justin Lowe and Mark Roberts kick-off the Katoomba Winter Poetry Reading this coming Thursday at the Little Lost Bookshop
The Little Lost Bookshop, Katoomba and Rochford Street Review have combined to run a series of poetry readings at the bookshop over winter. The first of these three readings will take place this coming at 6.30pm, Thursday night, 19 June at the bookshop, Hapenny Lane, 181 Katoomba St, Katoomba NSW 2780.
‘The Office of Literary Endeavours’ the new collection by Mark Roberts, Sydney launch this Sunday – 25 May
Mark Roberts (co-editor of Rochford Street Review) and 5 Islands Press invite you to the Sydney Launch of ‘The Office of Literary Endeavours’ To be launched by Les Wicks with Angela Stretch as your MC
on Sunday 25 May 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, Benledi House, 186 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
The recreation of memory: Mark Roberts launches ‘Some Dualities’ and ’28 Sonnets’ by Michael Witts
There is much to read and enjoy in Some Dualities, the poems are often witty, nearly always insightful and often honestly personal.
P76 Issue 9. Mark Roberts – ‘Returns’
Mark Roberts is a writer, critic and publisher living on unceded Darug and Gundungurra land. He is co-editor, along with Linda Adair, of Rochford Street Review. His last poetry collection, Concrete Flamingos, was published by Island Press in 2016. His next collection, The Office of Literary Endeavours, will be published by 5 Islands Press in 2025.
Playful complexity: Mark Roberts reviews ‘Flying North for Winter’ by Pete Spence
Pete Spence is a poet/artist who stands, for the most part, outside the mainstream of Australian poetry. Over decades Spence has built up a considerable body of work, most of it appearing in small independent magazines and in books and chapbooks published by small presses. Which brings us to his 2022 chapbook Flying North for Winter, published by now orries press.
Mark Roberts talks poetry, politics and publishing with Tina Giannoukos
This interview with Mark Roberts by Tina Giannoukos was broadcast on 3CR on Thursday, 21 September 2023 as part of Spoken Word: a program dedicated to the eclectic world of poetry and performance
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