A common humanity: Michael Witts reviews ‘Steep Curve’ by Robyn Rowland
This is a collection brimming with life, love and humour. These poems assert their independence while acknowledging their cohesion. They are parts of a greater whole.
Writers
Timothy Loveday: Holiday
Tim Loveday is a poet, writer, educator and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation, rurality and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize and the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Fierce and poignant: John Bennett launches ‘Stranded’ by Bronwyn Rodden
Bronwyn’s poems are alive, they talk to us. Often as quiet presences that draw us into a life from childhood on. She left home early. Her poems can be fierce and poignant regarding family dynamics.
Beatriz Copello: 3 Poems from ‘The Book of Jeremiah’
Dr Beatriz Copello is a well-known reviewer, writer and poet, she is also known for her sense of humour.
Launch of ‘Life Itself’ by Kevin Higgins – Galway, Ireland April 27 2025
Kevin Higgins was a great friend of Rochford Street Review. We would love to be able to make this launch but will need to content ourselves with reading the book once launched. If you are anywhere near Galway make sure you are there!
A patient reverence for the continuity of time: Lyn Chatham reviews ‘The Seal Woman’ by Beverley Farmer
The Seal Woman is a novel with a clear narrative arc, albeit a slow-moving one, but overwhelmingly it is a patient reverence for the continuity of time, rhythm of the seasons, the oceans and, of course, its living creatures.
Breaking rules: Beatriz Copello reviews ‘Breaking Plates’ directed by Karen Pearlman
Breaking Plates is a dramatic silent film embellished by stunning dances which takes the observer to the past through old films of revolutionary women, films made between 1896 and 1926. These women from the old films converse with filmmakers of the present day.
Bronwyn Rodden: 5 Poems
Bronwyn Rodden’s writing is published in literary journals and anthologies in Australia, the UK and the USA. She holds an MA Writing (UTS), was awarded an Emerging Writer Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and a residency at the Writers Cottage, Bundanon. Her most recent collection, Stranded, was published by Flying Islands Press 2024.
Justin Lowe’s ‘San Luis’ launches in Katoomba tonight
Celebrate the launch of Justin Lowe’s poetry collection San Luis on Thursday, April 3rd 7pm, at On The Soul Side Cafe
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