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Issue 38 – 2023:3

Green Skip Drawing – from a sequence, Lisa McKimmie 2023. 

Featured Artist: Lisa McKimmie

• Featured Artist Lisa McKimmie Biographical Statement
• Featured Artist Lisa McKimmie Artist’s Statement

Reviews

• Playful complexity: Mark Roberts reviews Flying North for Winter by Pete Spence
• Those guys have been on fire: Ben Sando reports on Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton’s linked sequence of four books
• Awakening our rage: Rosemary Nissen-Wade reviews Witches, Women and Words by Beatriz Copello
• Sightlines at work: Alice Wanderer reviews This Overflowing Light by Rin Ishigaki
• A strong and engaging movement: Andrew Taylor reviews Ghosts of Paradise by Stephen Edgar
• The trajectory of a life: Margaret Bradstock reviews But Now by Phyllis Perlstone
• Language matters: Les Wicks reviews te pāhikahikatanga / incommensurability by Vaughan Rapatahana
• Leaping from one sentence to the next: Stu Hatton reviews Endgame with No Ending by Dominique Hecq
• A series of mirrors: Esther Ottaway reviews Who Comes Calling? by Miriam Wei Wei Lo

Launches

• Humour and humanity: Jennifer Harrison launches Poetry of Home: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology
• Breakages are part of the story: Rosanna Licari launches Seams of Repair by Stephanie Green
• Rich & Provocative: Alice Wanderer launches The Routledge Global Haiku Reader
• Flinging out towards space: Robyn Rowland launches Harvesting Darkness. New Poems 2019-2023 by Robin Morgan
• A community of poets and activists: Steve Brock launches The dilemma of writing a poem by Juan Garrido-Salgado
• The fleeting exposure of one thought over another: Damen O’Brien launches Ghosts Struggle to Swim by Jane Frank

Poetry/Prose

• Maeve McKenna – 6 Poems from Body as a Home for This Darkness
• Esther Ottaway 5 Poems
• Drucilla Wall 5 Poems
• Eamonn Wall 5 Poems
• Lauren O’Donovan 6 Poems
• Mal McKimmie: Poems from Green Sonnets
• Barbara Boyd-Anderson 3 Poems
• Janet Reinhardt 3 Poems
• Brighton-le-sands. A poem by Kate Lumley
• David Nash 5 Poems

Interviews

• Mark Roberts talks poetry, politics and publishing with Tina Giannoukos

Obituary

• Vale Alison Flett

Issue 37 – 2023:2

Featured Artist: Linda Swinfield.

• Featured Artist Linda Swinfield – Biographical Statement
• Featured Artist Linda Swinfield: Artist Statement

Reviews

• A rendering of threats: Stephanie Green reviews Critical State by B. R. Dionysius
• The Significance of Rain: Margaret Bradstock reviews Swimmer in the Dust by Ross Gillett
• The Human Voices of Flowers: Robbie Coburn reviews Kangaroo Paw by Claire Miranda Roberts
• Artistic intelligence, fortitude, and grace: Michael Sharkey reviews Ways to Say Goodbye by Anne Kellas
• Vantage Points On Lived Realities: Devika Brendon reviews The Unintended Consequences Of The Shattering by Linda Adair
• Enticing snippets of narrative: Mark O’Flynn reviews The Detective’s Chair by Anne Carson

Launches

• Beyond the realm of evocative descriptiveness: Ross Gillett launches The Light Café by Diane Fahey
• Hold on to resilience: Colleen Keating launches No Salami Fairy Bread by Beatriz Copello
• Going Underground: P76 Issue 8 Launched at the 2023 Sonic Poetry Festival
• A lean, mean poetry machine: Maeve O’Sullivan launches Some of These Stories are True by Maurice Devitt
• All histories are valuable: John Foulcher launches The Shadow Box by Jean Kent

Poetry/Prose

• Robyn Rowland 4 Poems
• Beatriz Copello: 5 Poems from No Salami Fairy Bread
• Mark Mahemoff: 3 Poems
• ‘The Baroness’: from Everyone on Mars: stories from The Red Shift by Larry Buttrose

Interviews

• Having fun with poetry: Anne Kellas interviews John Tranter, Hobart 1990

Obituary

• Vale Andrew Burke
• Vale Elizabeth Webby

Sonic Poetry Festival

• Sonic Poetry Festival Special Supplement Contents Page

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Issue 36 – 2023:1

Featured Artist: Boyd McMillan

• Boyd McMillan – Artist Statement

Reviews

• Making it clear: Mark Mahemoff reviews Our Ways On Earth by Peter Bakowski
• Aspects of a conflicted past: Margaret Bradstock reviews Spirit Level by Marcelle Freiman
• Re-imagining grief in the pandemic Anthropocene: Willo Drummond reviews Leaf by Anne Elvey
• Creative, explorative and very personal: Beatriz Copello reviews Looking In by Michael Leibowitz
• A fragile dance: Mark Roberts reviews pressed specimens by Moya Costello
• A sharp eye and a lyric touch: Beatriz Copello reviews Bobish by Magdalena Ball

Launches

• Creative Collaboration: Margaret O’Brien launches Some Days the Bird, by Anne Casey and Heather Bourbeau
• Imagery and music: Maurice Devitt launches Riptide by Amanda Bell
• Magnifying our collective alertness: Angela Costi launches Increments of the Everyday by Rose Lucas
• A kind of sense making: Daragh Byrne launches Text Messages from the Universe by Richard James Allen
• The poet, as a hunter: Anthony Dracopoulos launches Divertente and other poems by Yannis Rentzos
• Making sense of the strangest of times: Alison Hackett launches Poetic Licence in a Time of Corona by Chris Fitzpatrick
• A black box of all that’s happened: ali whitelock launches Poetry of Encounter: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology edited by Anne M Carson & Rose Lucas
• A longing for place: Brendan Ryan launches Save As by A Frances Johnson
• An alluring enigma: Prithvi Varatharajan launches And to Ecstasy by Marjon Mossammaparast
• A wide-reaching recognition of the importance of place: Jean Kent launches Sunday Morning, Here by Jill McKeowen

Poetry

• Margaret O’Brien: 3 Poems
• Iain Britton: from theatre of the surreal
• Michael Witts: 5 Poems
• kerry rawlinson 6 Poems

Interviews

• Linda Adair talks poetry, colonisation and uncovering hidden histories with Tina Giannoukos.

Obituary

• Vale Ron Pretty
• Vale John Tranter
• Vale Kevin Higgins
• Vale Julia Kaylock

Essays

• George Mackay Brown – In the Hands of a Loving Poet: An essay by Tim Slade
• Anna Couani on translating Divertente and other poems by Yannis Rentzos aka Yannis Dramitinos

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Issue 35.  2022:3 Special Robert Adamson Issue

Introduction to the Robert Adamson Special Issue

• Messages to Robert Adamson
• Vale Robert Adamson
• Robert Adamson Memorial Service Friday 13th January 2023, 1.15pm (AEDT) Live Streaming Details

• Canticle for the Bicentennial Dead – originally appeared in Issue 30
• Robert Adamson reading at the The inaugural ‘Reading the River’ poetry reading, 17 January 2020 – originally appeared in Issue 28
• ‘Golden flight’ A poem to Bob Adamson by Robyn Rowland

Robert Adamson, CAL Chair of Poetry at the University of Technology Sydney

• Text of the original media release appointing Robert Adamson as The first Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology, Sydney
• Grace and Fury – Robert Adamson on Dorothy Hewett, Gwen Harwood & Fay Zwicky
  The Ambassador from Venus Robert Adamson on Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley
• The Grace of Accuracy – Imagination and the Details Necessary: Robert Adamson on Poetry
• Something Absolutely Splendid – Robert Adamson on Francis Webb
• The Ultimate Commitment: The Poetry of Michael Dransfield, Vicki Viidikas and Robert Harris by Robert Adamson

Other Essays

• “Who was Michael Dransfield?” Robert Adamson revisits ‘Michael Dransfield’s Lives: A Sixties Biography’ by Patricia Dobrez

Reviews

• Three Poems and Webb Lecture by the Inaugural CAL Chair of Poetry Cordite
• Devin Johnston introducing Robert Adamson in the special Australian edition of Poetry Magazine (which Adamson edited) in 2016
• Life on the Hawkesbury: A photographer, a poet and a bowerbird called Spinoza – Candida Baker’s profile on Juno Gemes and Robert Adamson, Sydney Morning Herald 4 May 2018
• Robert Adamson recorded in conversation at the 2014 Adelaide Writers’ Week. ABC Radio National 18 Aug 2014
• Blackwater: the poetry of Robert Adamson ABC Radio National 21 Jan 200921 January 2009

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Issue 34. 2022:2

Featured Artist Issue 34: Judith Nangala Crispin

• Judith Nangala Crispin Biographical Statement

Reviews

• The cynical and the hopeful: Deirdre Hines reviews The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot by Mick Corrigan
• Grappling with science and faith: Dr Robyn Rowland reviews Dancing with Stephen Hawking by John Foulcher
• Suffused with a sense of the sacred: Denise O’Hagan reviews A Triptych of Birds and A Few Loose Feathers by Pratibha Castle
• Connections between themes and images: Debbie Lee reviews Do you have anything less domestic? by Emilie Collyer
• The Third in a Telling Triumvirate! John Jenkins reviews The Verse Novel Australia & New Zealand by Linda Weste.
• A life of endurance and principle: Dylan Hyde reviews The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard by Nathan Hobby

Poetry & Prose

• Larry Buttrose 3 Poems
• 2 Poems from Finding Jesse of Newnes by Linda Adair
• Les Wicks: Five Poems
• Alex Skovron: Six Poems
• Daragh Byrne: Five Poems
• Rose Hunter – Poems from Body Shell Girl
• Louise Wakeling: Six Poems
• Nathanael O’Reilly: Seven Poems

Visual Arts

• Finding Jesse of Newnes – an industrial ghost town on unceded Wiradjuri and Dharug lands: an exhibition by Linda Adair.

Video Poetry

• The Citizen’s Wife a Poetry Film by Molly Twomey, for Ulysses 2.2

Launches

• Shaking us loose from our tired habits of perception: Liam Ferney launches Land Art by Stuart Cooke
• To fight and dream again: Ailbhe Darcy launches Ecstatic by Kevin Higgins
• The Observing Eye: Philip Radmall launches Figure in the Landscape by Danny Gardner
• A sensual enjoyment of language: Tina Giannoukos launches Siren of the Heart by Gad Ben-Meir
• Launch speeches for chalk borders by Sarah St Vincent Welch
  • Crossing a subliminal border: Anna Couani launches chalk borders by Sarah St Vincent Welch
  • A love letter: Ursula Dubosarsky launches chalk borders by Sarah St Vincent Welch
• Marvellous stuff! Jurate Sasnaitis launches Near Believing: selected monologues and narratives 1967–2021 by Alan Wearne
• A kaleidoscope of topics: Jean Kent launches The Earth will Outshine Us by Kathryn Fry
• Freedom and flight: Susan Fealy launches Letters from the Periphery by Alex Skovron
• On the Foreshores: Virginia Shepherd launches Local by Anna Couani
• Layered, creative, complicated: Dr Sally Breen launches Body Shell Girl by Rose Hunter
• Subterranean arteries: Peter Kirkpatrick launches Off Limits by Louise Wakeling

Articles

• Curried Chips, Uncomfortable Chairs, & a Swollen Testicle by Kevin Higgins

Obituary

• Vale Antigone Kefala
• Vale Suzanne Bellamy. Feminist, Artist, Writer, Scholar, Activist

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Issue 33. 2022:1

Featured Artist Issue 33: Erin Fry

Reviews

• The messiness of desire and freedom: Leila Lois reviews The Pink Book by Henry Von Doussa
• Revelling in the possibilities of language: Jackson reviews Listening to Frost by Jan Napier
• An exquisite subtlety: Annee Lawrence reviews What the river told me by Jane Skelton
• Level, unsentimental, and persistent: Nicole Rain Sellers reviews Glide by Louise Crisp
• What we found in the stillness: Dr Belinda Calderone reviews Lockdown Poetry: The Covid Long Haul edited by Rose Lucas
• A powerful concentration of meaning : Mark Mahemoff reviews Heard-Hoard by Atsuro Riley
• Dreamy and bold: Heather Taylor-Johnson reviews Ismene’s Survivable Resistance by Claire Gaskin
• The tensions of hyperreality and ancestry: Leila Lois reviews about: blank by Tracy Fuad
• Moving, visceral and beautiful: Leila Lois reviews Disassembling A Dancer by Kyeren Regehr
• Figurative in Forms: Dr. Rebecca K Law reviews The Fickle Pendulum by Paul Scully
• Solace, the world, love and pain: Beatriz Copello reviews The Density of Compact Bone by Magdalena Ball

Poetry & Prose

• Shh-Shh – a poem by Susie Walsh
• Magdalena Ball: Six Poems
• Elinor Nauen: Two Poems
• Mark Young: Four Poems
• Vicky Tsaconas: Six Poems
• Texas Fontanella
  • Texas Fontanella – Erasure 1
  • Texas Fontanella – Erasure 2
  • Texas Fontanella – Erasure 3
  • Texas Fontanella – Erasure 4
  • Texas Fontanella – Erasure 5
  • Texas Fontanella – Erasure 6
  • Texas Fontanella – Erasure 7
  • Texas Fontanella – Erasure 8
• Ciarán O’Rourke: Five Poems

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Issue 32 2021:2

Featured Artist Issue 32: eila vinwynn

• eila vinwynn biographical note

Reviews

• Understated parables: Mark Mahemoff reviews Solace, Selected Poems 1978-2017 by Graham Henderson
• Dense, lyrical and poetic: Helen Hagemann reviews Against Certain Capture by Miriam Wei Wei Lo
• Transfusions Of Truth and A Far Cry: Devika Brendon Reviews Anne Casey’s The Light We Cannot See
• Tension, drama, sex and suspense: Beatriz Copello reviews More Lies by Richard James Allen
• Looking at Photos and Telling Stories: Mark Prendergast reviews How to Dress a Fish by Abigail Chabitnoy
• Sheltered: Dominique Hecq reviews Claire Gaskin’s Ismene’s Survivable Resistance
• Bold yet subtle: Vasilka Pateras reviews An Embroidery of Old Maps and New by Angela Costi
• Connections & Shared Histories: Sherryl Clark reviews a ghost gum leans over by Myron Lysenko & In This Part of the World by Kevin Brophy
• The power to survive & succeed: Beatriz Copello reviews Hope Blossoming in Their Ink by Juan Garrido-Salgado

Poetry &Prose

• Cliff Fyman: An extract from TAXI NIGHT
• Justin Lowe: Five Poems
• Sam Morley: Two Poems
• Elinor Nauen: 4 poems in Norwegian with English translations
• Twenty Two One Line Poems by Amanda Anastasi
• Indrani Perera: Six Poems
• Adam Aitken: Three Poems
• Michele Seminara: 6 Poems
• ‘Season of Brigid’ by Anne Casey, Performed by Davog Rynne

Video Poems

• Twenty Two One Line Poems by Amanda Anastasi
• ‘Season of Brigid’ by Anne Casey, Performed by Davog Rynne

Interviews

• A Conversation: Elinor Nauen interviews Cliff Fyman

Launches

• The grim reality: Amanda Anastasi Launches Poetry for the Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures edited by Julia Kaylock & Denise O’Hagan
• A significant vision: Angela Costi’s speech at the launch of Cloud Climbers – Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace
• The human condition writ large: Alison Hackett launches God Lives in Norway and Goes by Christie by Arnie Yasinski
• Placing dynamite under the whole system: Ciarán O’Rourke launches Thrills & Difficulties: Being a Marxist Poet in 21st Century Ireland
• Sheltered: Dominique Hecq reviews Claire Gaskin’s Ismene’s Survivable Resistance
• Suburban Fantasy by Michele Seminara virtual book launch
  • The silent scream: Ali Whitelock virtually launches Suburban Fantasy by Michele Seminara
  • Darkness alongside peace: Les Wicks virtually launches Suburban Fantasy by Michele Seminara

Articles

• Tamborine Mountain poems – Lost poems found
• Remembering Rae Desmond Jones

Obituary

• Vale Tim Thorne – Poet and activist

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Issue 31 2021:1

Featured Artist Issue 31: Anne Graham

• Anne Graham: Biographical Note
• The Gardens Of Stone installation – Anne Graham

Reviews

• Eco-poetry of the most delicate kind: Denise O’Hagan reviews Wide River by Jane Frank
• Confronting the barricades in our hearts: Harold Legaspi reviews Bone Ink by Rico Craig
• Power, meaning and inspiration: Beatriz Copello reviews Case Notes by David Stavanger
• A Spectacularly Original Poet: Deirdre Hines reviews Future Pass by John Sexton
• Diary of a Restless Traveller: Diane Murray reviews Tracks by Dominique Hecq
• A dazzling and wise debut: Linda Adair reviews The Beating Heart by Denise O’Hagan
• The mastery of immersion and advocacy in Jordie Albiston’s poetry by Angela Costi

Poetry & Prose

• Andrew Lansdown: Four Poems
• Karen May: Four Poems
• Mark Young: Four Poems
• Michael Witts: Five Poems
• Three poems by Kate Lumley
• ‘The Waitlist’ by Morgaine van Wingerden

Video Poems

• ‘The Waitlist’ by Morgaine van Wingerden

Visual Arts

• Arthur Boyd in the Blue Mountains – Linda Adair reviews Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul

Launches

• Thoughtfully rendered and carefully placed: Angela Costi launches My Mother and The Cat by Jeltje Fanoy
• From the micro to the macroscopic: Indrani Perera launches Wearing My Father’s Hat by David Munro
• The wonderment of the natural world: Dimitra Harvey launches What’s Left by Steve Armstrong
• The threads of inheritance: berni m janssen launches An Embroidery of Old Maps and New by Angela Costi
• Brief and brilliant impressions: Kevin Brophy launches blue balloon by Grant Cauldwell
• Nathan Shepherdson launches Wild River by Jane Frank
• Translating one culture out of another: Kevin Brophy launches Living After Death by Ouyang Yu
• Strong and mesmerizing: Jean Kent launches Foxline by Chris Mansell

Articles

• The time of white heat that fueled an era: Suzanne Bellamy remembers Kate Jennings
• Thrills & Difficulties: Being a Marxist Poet in 21st Century Ireland by Kevin Higgins
• The mastery of immersion and advocacy in Jordie Albiston’s poetry by Angela Costi

Obituary

• The time of white heat that fueled an era: Suzanne Bellamy remembers Kate Jennings
• Vale Kate Jennings
• Vale Loretta Hemensley

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Issue 30  2020:3

Featured Artist Issue 30: Juno Gemes

• About Juno Gemes
• Notebook Revelations: Juno Gemes’ portrait of James Baldwin
• Juno Gemes: The Movement for Civil Rights in Australia, 1971 to 2010

Reviews

• Anything But ‘Prosaic’: John Jenkins reviews Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry edited by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington.
• Syncopated Synesthesia: – Devika Brendon reviews A Happening In Hades by S. K. Kelen
• The Idea Of A Chosen Plenitude – Poems Far And Wide by John Jenkins, reviewed by Devika Brendon
• Critiquing our ableist society: Heather Taylor-Johnson reviews Show Me Where It Hurts by  Kylie Maslen
• Meaning can catch on anything: John Bartlett reviews Graeme Miles Infernal Topographies
• Feeling for Time in Antigone Kefala’s Fragments by Efi Hatzimanolis

Poetry & Prose

• Advance australia what? – A poem by Burraga Gutya (Ken Canning)
• Eileen Chong: 6 poems
• Linda Adair: 6 poems
• Philip Hammial 5 poems
• Claire Albrecht: 4 poems
• Laura Jan Shore: 2 poems
• Barbara Brooks: Four Months in Barcelona
• Ivy Ireland: 5 poems
• Kevin Higgins: 3 poems
• Benjamin Dodds: 3 poems
• Canticle for the Bicentennial Dead by Robert Adamson
• Kerri Shying: 2 poems
• Judith Nangala Crispin: 2 poems

Video Poems

• canine: A video poem by Ian Gibbins
• Sensurious: A video poem by Ian Gibbins
• dog daze: A video poem by Ian Gibbins
• 42nds. A video poem by Ian Gibbins
• accidentals (recalculated). A video poem by Ian Gibbins

Visual Arts

• Notebook Revelations: Juno Gemes’ portrait of James Baldwin
• Juno Gemes: The Movement for Civil Rights in Australia, 1971 to 2010

Launches

• Sitting on a cusp that has slipped away: Keri Glastonbury launches Know Your Country by Kerri Shying
• The borderlands of science and the soul: Leah Kaminsky launches Chronicity by Michael J. Leach
• Mike Greenacre – Nocturnal House launch.
  • The multiplicity of life: Shane McCauley co-launches Nocturnal House by Mike Greenacre
  • Celebratory and re-affirming: Peter Jefferies co-launches Nocturnal House by Mike Greenacre
• An iridescent debut: Anne Cassey launches The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering by Linda Adair
• Personal and confessional: Julie Maclean launches Songs of the Godforsaken by John Bartlett
• Four Short Meditations on Winter Gold: Liana Joy Christensen launhes Winter Gold by Barbara Stapleton
• The complexities of love, intimacy and grief: Tricia Dearborn launches Afterglow by Laura Jan Shore
• Invitation to the virtual launch of The Unintended Consequence of the Shattering by Linda Adair
• A distinctive poetic voice: Brook Emery launches The Owl Inside by Ivy Ireland
• An expansive kind of calm: Nathan Curnow launches In This Part of the World by Kevin Brophy
• Compelling & vibrant, honest & deeply ethical: Stuart Barnes launches Airplane Baby Banana Blanket by Benjamin Dodds
• A conversation we need to have: Amanda Anastasi launches Messages from the Embers

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Issue 29  2020:2

Featured Artist Issue 29: Jessica Tobin

• Featured Artist: Jessica Tobin. Biographical note and artist statement 

Reviews

• Dance, film, poetry: Sarah St Vincent Welch reviews text messages from the universe
• The magical and surreal: Colin Dardis reviews (Un)belonging by Nathanael O’Reilly
• From whence we derive our strength: Devika Brendon reviews Mountain Secrets— edited by Joan Fenney
• The marrow of individual experience and disrupted heritage: Malcolm St Hill reviews sing out when you want me by Kerri Shying
• Listen, bitch: Melinda Smith and Caren Florance shout it’s time to turn the volume down on misogynistic language. Reviewed by Natalie D-Napoleon
• Reaching inside you: Ali Whitelock reviews Case Notes by David Stavanger
• One hundred and eighty degree turns: John Bartlett reviews Family Trees by Michael Farrell
• Passion and Elegance: John Foulcher reviews Mosaics from the Map & Under this Saffron Sun / Safran Gunesin Alinda

Poetry

• Andrew Burke: Five Poems
• Robbie Coburn: Six Poems
• Heather Taylor Johnson: Three Poems
• Susan Millar DuMars: Six Poems
• Michael Witts: Three Poems

Video Poems

• ‘Kinaesthetic Grace’: A video poem by Angela Costi and Faezeh Alavi
• ‘Routine of Space’: A video poem by Angela Costi and Faezeh Alavi
• ‘Shelter’: A video poem by Angela Costi and Faezeh Alavi
• ‘Making Lace’ A video poem by Angela Costi and Faezeh Alavi
• ‘Synonymous with Strength’ – A video poem by Stephen James Smith & Elma Orkestra

Launches

• Fresh & poetic: Richard Regan and Leanne Searle launch The Last Asbestos Town by Helen Hagemann
• Jill Jones Memes for Disaffected Teens or Introducing Aidan Coleman’s Introduction to Jill Jones’ collection A History of What I’ll Become.
• A poet to hail and to treasure: Peter Holland launches New and Selected by Andrew Burke
• Virtual Launch: Rebecca Kylie Law talks about Pan’s Dance: New and Selected Poems
• A connection to the landscape: Richard James Allen launches Sandpaper Swimming – Going After Burke & Wills by George Watt

Articles

• DODO Magazine: A history by Michael Witts

Obituary

• Vale Walter Billeter
• Vale: Ania Walwicz

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Issue 28  2020:1

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Featured Artists Issue 28:

…..Fiona Davies

• Fiona Davies: Biographical note
• Fiona Davies: Artist Statement

…..Richard Tipping

• Richard Kelly Tipping: Biographical note
• Richard Kelly Tipping: Notes on several of the Lovepoem prints

Reviews

• Reclaiming women’s position in film making history: Sarah St Vincent Welch reviews three films by Karen Pearlman
• Memory as dream, dream as memory: Shirley Lu reviews South in the World by Lisa Jacobson
• The power of words: Henry Briffa reviews Unspeakable by Petr Malapanis
• Words, perception, memory and poetry: John Jenkins reviews Ashbery Mode edited by Michael Farrell
• The Mirrors That We Drape: Deirdre Hines reviews Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital by Kevin Higgins
• Coupling intellect and passion: Dominique Hecq reviews First Blood by Natalie D-Napoleon
• A deep archive: the docupoetry of Jeanine Leane & Natalie Harkin: Mark Prendergast reviews Walk Back Over by Jeanine Leane and Archival-Poetics by Natalie Harkin

Poetry

• Angela Costi: Seven poems
• Nathanael O’Reilly: Four poems from (Un)Belonging
• Justin Lowe: Three Poems
• Sanjeev Sethi: 3 Poems
• Jenny Blackford: Two poems from The Alpaca Cantos
• Behind Closed Doors: A poem by Linda Adair to mark seven years since the Rana Plaza factory collapse
• Irina Frolova: 3 poems
• Victoria Brookman: 2 Poems
• Rozanna Lilley: 2 Poems
• in the silence of the custard a poem by Ali Whitelock
• Robert Adamson reading at the The inaugural ‘Reading the River’ poetry reading, 17 January 2020
• Laurie Duggan reading at the The inaugural ‘Reading the River’ poetry reading, 17 January 2020.
• Anne Casey reading at the the inaugural ‘Reading the River’ poetry reading, 17 January 2020.
• Reading the River March Reading cancelled

Reading the River Virtual readings

• The virtual launch of the second Reading the River reading
• Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Martin Langford
• Three poems with introductions for Reading the River: Martin Langford
• Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Irina Frolova
• Irina Frolova: 3 poems
• Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Richard Kelly Tipping
• Richard Kelly Tipping: Notes on several of the Lovepoem prints
• Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Tricia Dearborn
• Tricia Dearborn: Six poems from Autobiochemistry
• Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Chris Mansell
• Reading the River virtual reading April 2020: Les Wicks

Video Poems

• Self-Evacuation, poem by Mark Roberts, film by Lori H. Ersolmaz
• Collectively Counting: A video poem by Stephen James Smith, film by Craig Kenny
• No Words, A video poem by Margaret Clifford, film by Lori H. Ersolmaz
• Chris Mansell Quad #33
• the lactic acid in the calves of your despair: a video poem by Ali Whitelock
• this is coal don’t be afraid: a video poem by Ali Whitelock

Visual Arts

• Michael Glasheen Drawing on the Land: Garigal Country — benefit exhibition
• Behind Closed Doors: A poem by Linda Adair to mark seven years since the Rana Plaza factory collapse

Launches

• A tapestry of exquisite threads: Matthew Stephens launches Sky Swimming by Sylvia Martin
• The Virtual Launch of (Un)belonging by Nathanael O’Reilly featuring Anne Casey: Index
• Gliding between worlds: Anne Casey virtually launches (Un)belonging by Nathanael O’Reilly
• Nathanael O’Reilly: Four poems from (Un)Belonging
• Adeptly aware of gender, class, race and age: Molly Twomey launches Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital by Kevin Higgins
• Eavesdropping on the slipstream of culture: Liana Joy Christensen launches Backyard Listening by Coral Carter
• A generosity of vision: Judy Johnson launches The Alpaca Cantos by Jenny Blackford
• LAUNCHING AIDAN COLEMAN—AIDAN COLEMAN, HIS LAUNCH – Ken Bolton
• Fluid and shifts: Gail Hennessy launches Knitting Mangrove Roots by Kerri Shying
• A celebration of a life lived: Alison Hackett launches Proposition by Arnie Yasinski
• Tricia Dearborn virtually launches the lactic acid in the calves of your despair by Ali Whitelock
• A potent brew of words, rhythm, imagination and truth: Tricia Dearborn launches the lactic acid in the calves of your despair by Ali Whitelock
• Ali Whitelock speaking at the virtual launch of the lactic acid in the calves of your despair

Obituary

• Vale Elizabeth Harrower
• Vale: Eavan Boland
• Vale: John Passant
• Vale: Bruce Dawe

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Issue 27  2019:2

Featured Artist Issue 27: Suzanne Bellamy

• Suzanne Bellamy biographical note
• Artist statement Abstract Machines: Suzanne Bellamy
• Identity and habitat: Biff Ward Launches Time and Place an exhibition by Suzanne Bellamy

Reviews

• Shimmering with exuberance: Devika Brendon reviews Out of emptied cups by Anne Casey
• Soft skin, sharp edges: Genevieve Scanlan reviews Eager to Break by Eliana
• Inventive interplay: Mark Seton reviews The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen
• Cherish, wonder and the want to protect: Angela Costi reviews Green Dance by Jena Woodhouse
• Delicacy and precision: John Carey reviews Son Songs by Tug Dumbly
• Unique imagery – Suroopa Chatterjee reviews Karmic Chanting by Sonnet Mondal
• A novel of fragments, an imagined narrative: Mark Roberts reviews Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi
• Beyond the culturally scripted response: Beth Spencer reviews High Wire Step by Magdalena Ball
• Unsettling voices with texture and cheekiness: Linda Adair reviews the first Slow Loris chapbook series

Poetry

• Nathanael O’Reilly: 6 Poems
• Rodeo Days a video poem by Marie Craven
• Human Resources a video poem by Marie Craven, words by Dave Bonta
• Semi-Automatic Pantoum a video poem by Matt Mullins, in collaboration with the Poetic Justice League of Chicago
• Gordon Meade: 5 Poems
• Jenni Nixon: 6 Poems
• Breda Wall Ryan: 6 Poems
• Penelope Layland: 2 Poems
• Pete Spence: 3 Poems
• Sonnet Mondal : 4 poems

Visual Arts

• Gemes, Crispin & Pollak: Exhibition Preview
• Resilience in Times of Adversity: Contemporary Responses to WW2 in the Blue Mountains 1939-1950
• Resilience in Times of Adversity Curator’s Statement – Vivienne Dadour
• Resilience in times of adversity – Exhibition essay by Anthony Bond
• Haunting and luminous ‘Juno Gemes: The Quiet Activist – A Survey Exhibition 1979-2019’ a response by Linda Adair
• The Now-Present and the Future Presencing of Absence: Moya Costello reviews Fiona Fell & Kellie O’Dempsey Dirt & Ash & Marion Conrow Museum of My Friends #1
• Anna Hayes 4 photographs

Launches

• Uplifting and quietly triumphant: Debra Adelaide launches Portrait of the Artist’s Mother by Fiona Place
• Metaphor and other devices: Alex Skovron launches Libation by Earl Livings
• Power and Necessity: Maria Takolander launches The Arms of Men by John Bartlett
• Delightfully eclectic: Alex Skovron launches Poems Far and Wide by John Jenkins
• Diverse and Colourful: Liana Christensen on the 2019 Creative Connections Poetry Award
• Independence and intimacy: Emma Neale launches Eager to Break by Eliana Gray
• Words like X-rays: Amelia Walker Launches The White Line of Language by Deb Stewart
• An important work: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson launches The Bruise of Knowing by Phyllis Perlstone
• A meditation on time: Melinda Smith launches The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen
• With a political edge: Sandy Jeffs launches The Dialectics of Rain by Karen Throssell
• Notes from a launch: Rules of Engagement by Michael J. Whelan
• A landscape of possibility, positive action and community: Alison Lyssa launches Sculpting a Landscape by Colleen Z Burke
• Condensed lyricism: Ann Vickery launches Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn
• The concept of conscience: Paul Genoni launches A Thousand Tongues by Ian Reid
• The shock of recognition: Jennifer Compton launches The Sacking of the Muses by Susan Hawthorne

Essays

The Neo-liberal Poet: An essay by Kevin Higgins

Obituary

• Vale: Jo Meisner
• Vale: Martin Wesley-Smith

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Issue 26  2019:1

Featured Artist Issue 26: Vivienne Dadour

• Vivienne Dadour: Biographical Note
• A Biography of Place: The Unknown Craftsmen at Everglades c1932-35 #1-3 – Artist Statement

Reviews

• Public & Personal — Les Wicks reviews Legacy by Julie Watts & The End of the Line by Rae Desmond Jones
• Isolation, Breavement & Love of Landscape: Leonie Bingham reviews Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
• The Psychological Landscape of the Artist – Linda Adair reviews Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul
• Sharing lives in poetic form: Amber Alley reflects on the Nimbin Poetry Evening and the Poetry World Cup
• Concise, Wittily Memorable & Elegant: Adam Aitken reviews Urban Gleanings by Mark Mahemoff
• Delight, Puzzle and Inform: Raewyn Alexander reviews Never too Late by Beth Spencer
• Passion, Intelligence & Creativity : Beatriz Copello Reviews Universal Mother by Elif Sezen
• Fuel that Moves the Poet: Beatriz Copello Reviews Walk by Darby Hudson & Dialogue with Samuel Lafferte in Australia ​ by Juan Garrido Salgado
• Meticulous & Beautifully Fashioned: Raewyn Alexander reviews Stone Mother Tongue by Annamaria Weldon
• A Chest Full of the Unexpected: Beatriz Copello reviews Belief by Les Wicks
• A Masterful, Energetic Way With Words: Raewyn Alexander reviews Who’s Broken is This? by John Passant

Poetry

• Six Poems by David Butler
• Tricia Dearborn: Six poems from Autobiochemistry
• Robyn Rowland: Six Poems
• Amanda Joy: Map of a Forest/ Urania’s Mirror (Part 1)
• The Last Days a video poem by Marie Craven & Lucy English

Visual Arts

• Menindee Fish Kill – Bonita Ely and Melissa Williams-Brown

Launches

• Abundant Insight: Les Wicks Launches Margaret Bradstock’s Brief Garden
• A Sustained Meditation on How to Belong: Lucy Dougan launches Stone Mother Tongue by Annamaria Weldon
• Reasserting the Lyrical: Anna Couani launches Poor Man’s Coat by Kit Kelen
• The Best Words in the Best Order : Cassandra Atherton launches ‘Moonlight on Oleander: Prose Poems’ by Paul Hetherington
• Vigorous and Compelling: Margaret Bradstock Launches Belief by Les Wicks
• Cohesion and Variance: Patricia Sykes launches Back to Earth by Tony Page
• Limpid, Lucid & Luminous: Anna Couani launches Open by Sarah St Vincent Welch
• A Rae of Hope for a Damaged World: John Jenkins launches The End of the Line by Rae Desmond Jones
• A Consummate Story-Teller: Dael Allison launches Her Mother Tongue by Zeny Giles
• The Edge of Questions and Dilemmas: Shane McCauley Launches Argot by Christopher Konrad
• Confident Enquiring Engagement: Sarah St Vincent Welch launches Thinking Process by Anna Couani

Obituaries

• Vale: Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper
• Vale: Rudi Krausmann

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Issue 26

October 2018 – December 2018

 

 Featured

• Featured Artist: Lisa Sharp
  • Featured Artist Lisa Sharp: Biographical Note and Artist Statement
• Featured Writer: Zhu Zhu
  • Featured Writer Zhu Zhu: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Zhu Zhu: Four Poems
  • Featured Translator Dong Li: Biographical Note
  • ‘The Wild Great Wall’ (野 长 城): Translator’s Note
• Featured Writer: Margarita Losada Vargas
  • Featured Writer Margarita Losada Vargas: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Margarita Losada Vargas: Five Poems
  • Featured Translator Juan Garrido Salgado: Biographical Note
• Featured Writer: Jennifer Maiden
  • Featured Writer Jennifer Maiden: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Jennifer Maiden: excerpts from ‘Appalachian Fall’, ‘Play with Knives: Five’, and ‘Selected Poems: 1967-2018’
  • Featured Writer Jennifer Maiden: Three New Poems
• Featured Writers from To End All Wars
  • Featured Writers Gisela Sophia Nittel, Judy Johnson, Andy Kissane and Angela Gardner: Biographical Notes
  • Featured Writers: Four Poems from ‘To End All Wars’

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• A Personal Sense of Place and History: Mark Roberts reviews Bloodroot by Annemarie Ni Churreain
• Rochford Street Review: A New Year, a New Format
• Dogs and their Spirits: Mark Roberts Reviews Louise Kerr’s Faithful and Wild
• The Late Poems of Stephen Lawrence (1958-2012) curated by Aidan Coleman
• Texture and Complexity: Carmel Macdonald Grahame launches Suburban Whistlestop
• Subverting the Machined Paradigms of Life: Linda Adair reviews Imperceptible Resistances -Modern Art Project Blue Mountains
• A Need to Examine the Life of the Nation: Kit Kelen reflects on To End All Wars
• Unfolding Complexity: Mark Roberts considers Anna Couani’s thinking process
• Vale Judith Rodríguez
• The Slipperiness of Meaning: Jean Kent launches Instant History by Richard Tipping

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ISSUE 24. October 2017 – March 2018

Featured

• Featured Artist: Anna Couani
  • Featured Artist Anna Couani: Biographical Note

• Featured Writers:

• PART 1: The Rovers
  • Les Wicks: Biographical Note
  • A taste of the international poetry festivals: Featured Writers’ introduction by Les Wicks
• Featured Writer: Hanane Aad
  • Featured Writer Hanane Aad: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Hanane Aad: Two Poems
• Featured Writer: Maram al-Masri
  • Featured Writer Maram al-Masri: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Maram al-Masri: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Tanja Bakić
  • Featured Writer Tanja Bakić: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Tanja Bakić: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Márcio-André de Sousa Haz
  • Featured Writer Márcio-André de Sousa Haz: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Márcio-André de Sousa Haz: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Lidija Dimkovska
  • Featured Writer Lidija Dimkovska: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Lidija Dimkovska: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Ingrid Fichtner
  • Featured Writer Ingrid Fichtner: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Ingrid Fichtner: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Maarja Kangro
  • Featured Writer Maarja Kangro: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Maarja Kangro: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Marra PL. Lanot
  • Featured Writer Marra PL. Lanot: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Marra PL. Lanot: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Erik Lindner
  • Featured Writer Erik Lindner: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Erik Lindner: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Barbara Pogačnik
  • Featured Writer Barbara Pogačnik: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Barbara Pogačnik: One Poem
• Featured Writer: George Mario Angel Quintero
  • Featured Writer George Mario Angel Quintero: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer George Mario Angel Quintero: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Remi Raji
  • Featured Writer Remi Raji: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Remi Raji: One Poem
• Featured Writer: K. Satchidanandan
  • Featured Writer K.Satchidanandan: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer K. Satchidanandan: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Sudeep Sen
  • Featured Writer Sudeep Sen: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Sudeep Sen: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Fahredin Shehu
  • Featured Writer Fahredin Shehu: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Fahredin Shehu: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Yury Zavadsky
  • Featured Writer Yury Zavadsky: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Yury Zavadsky: One Poem
• Featured Writer: Sonnet Mondal
  • Featured Writer Sonnet Mondal: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Sonnet Mondal: Four Poems
• Featured Writer: Les Wicks
  • Featured Writer Les Wicks: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Les Wicks: Four Poems

• PART 2: 2017 Blake Poetry Prize winner, Julie Watts
  • Featured Writer Julie Watts: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Julie Watts: ‘The story of Julian who will never know we loved him’ 

• PART 3: Featured Writer Darby Hudson
  • Featured Writer Darby Hudson: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Darby Hudson: ‘WALK’

Reviews

• “An art work has to be approached—there are the footsteps”: Judith Rodriguez launched Footsteps by Greg Rochlin at Collected Works Bookshop
• “Dark Convicts is an enterprising and exemplary work”: Tony Voss reviews Dark Convicts by Judy Johnson
• “Hawthorne has managed to deal with a horrific topic in a beautiful and poetic manner”: Beatriz Copello reviews Dark Matters by Susan Hawthorne
• “Suture Lines reflects Scully’s passion as a poet and scholar”: Malcolm St Hill reviews Suture Lines by Paul Scully
• “Art in response to Art”: Rob Walker launches Dreamday by Amelia Walker at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival
• “We must dream, and honour our dreams, in order to live actualised lives”- Amelia Walker: Dominique Hecq launches Dreamday at the AAWP conference
• Still Life, Other Life: Michael Sharkey Examines the Poetry of Barbara Fisher
• Watching to See What’s Next: Michele Seminara launches fourW Issue 28
• “Summers’ knack for nailing an image and capturing its emotional charge is sublime”: Malcolm St Hill reviews straya by Paul Summers
• Improvisational Openness: Jen Crawford launches Semi by Owen Bullock
• The incredulity of the painter: Lisa Sharp reviews Jordan Richardson’s exhibition, Shadows on a cave wall
• “Held in suspense”: Amarie Bergman reviews Christopher Gulick’s residency and exhibition at Factory 49
• Hecq “gives grief its voice, resurrecting it from silence”: Malcolm St Hill reviews Dominique Hecq’s Hush: A Fugue
• A World of Inner and Outer Captivity: Suzanne Bellamy launches Dark Matters by Susan Hawthorne

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ISSUE 23. July 2017 – September 2017

Featured

• Featured Artist: Zalehah Turner
  • Featured Artist Zalehah Turner: Biographical Note
    
• Featured Writers:
• PART 1: James W. Wood
  • Featured Writer James W. Wood: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer James W. Wood: Six Poems
• PART 2: Owen Bullock
  • Featured Writer Owen Bullock: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Owen Bullock: Seven Poems and Three Untitled Prose Poems
• PART 3: Willem Tibben
  • Featured Writer Willem Tibben: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Willem Tibben: poems from suburban veneer
• PART 4: Brendan Bonsack
  • Featured Writer Brendan Bonsack: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Brendan Bonsack: Four Spoken Word Poems
• PART 5: Andy Jackson
  • Featured Writer Andy Jackson: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Andy Jackson: Three Poems
• PART 6: Magdalena Ball
  • Featured Writer Magdalena Ball: Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Magdalena Ball: Five Poems

Teasing Threads

• Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
  • Teasing Threads – on Perth poetry
  • Teasing Threads – on Perth poetry: Jan Napier’s Thylacine

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• “The core of Unmaking Atoms”: Zalehah Turner interviews Magdalena Ball
• The Celebration of a Life Richly Lived: Ron Pretty Reviews Many, and One by Lyn Hatherly
• The Absence of Painting: Lisa Sharp reviews Joe Wilson Painting etc at STACKS PROJECTS
• “unearthed, precious and intimate”- Emma Cooper reviews Thea Astley: Selected Poems
• “the inner and outer worlds of the bereaved”: Malcolm St Hill reviews Magdalena Ball’s Unmaking Atoms
• “Beauty, imagination, understanding, empathy, recognition”: Heather Taylor Johnson launches Andy Jackson’s Music our bodies can’t hold
• An Intellectual and Emotional Complex: Luke Fischer launches The Sepia Carousel by Jakob Ziguras
• Vale John Ashbery
• Perth Poetry Festival – Keynote Address by Amanda Joy
• “my poem is a message to let people know what [a] terrible situation we are in”: Mohammad Ali Maleki talks to Zalehah Turner about ‘Silence Land’ from Manus Island
• Answers Just Beyond Our Grasp: Colleen Keating launches Black Mountain by Carol Chandler
• “A glowing, truthful collection to read and re-read”: Barbara Boyd-Anderson shares her thoughts on Open & Unfold by Cecilia Morris
• Succinct and poignant, a retrospective with the addition of new poems and “a clear eye on the future”: Anna Forsyth reviews We the Mapless: new and selected poems by Ian McBryde
• “humour, pain, judgement, and celebration”: a selection of poetry from Open & Unfold by Cecilia Morris
• “sparse versification and delicately restrained language”: Stephanie Dunk reviews Painting Red Orchids by Eileen Chong
• Danny Gardner and Maureen Ten co-launched Belgrove Press’s first title for 2017: Willem Tibben’s suburban veneer, address by Maureen Ten
• “veracity, agility, ferocity, and novelty”: Les Wicks launches Open & Unfold by Cecilia Morris
• “narratives of pain, illness, resilience and fortitude”: Jennifer Harrison launches Shaping the Fractured Self edited by Heather Taylor Johnson
• Vale Fay Zwicky

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Issue 22. April 2017- June 2017

Featured

• Featured Artist: Julie Manning
  • Featured Artist: Julie Manning Biographical Details

• Featured Writers:
• PART 1: Contemporary Irish Poetry
  • • Contemporary Irish Poetry Index
      • Contemporary Irish Poetry – Introduction by Mark Roberts
    • Afric McGlinchey
      • Biographical Note
      • Four Poems
    • Paul Casey
      • Biographical Note
      • Six Poems
    • Robyn Rowland
      • Biographical Note
      • Seven Poems
    • Adam White
      • Biographical Note
      • Five Poems
    • Jessica Traynor
      • Biographical Note
      • Three Poems
    • Susan Millar DuMars
      • Biographical Note
      • Five Poems
    • David Butler
      • Biographical Note
      • Five Poems
    • Doireann Ní Ghríofa
      • Biographical Note
      • Filíocht
    • John Murphy
      • Biographical Note
      • Five Poems
    • Annemarie Ní Churreáin
      • Biographical Note
      • Four Poems
    • Lizz Murphy
      • Biographical Note
      • Seven Poems
    • Breda Wall Ryan
      • Biographical Note
      • Six Poems
    • Patrick Deeley
      • Biographical Note
      • Six Poems
    • Noel Duffy
      • Biographical Note
      • Four Poems
    • Kimberly Campanello
      • Biographical Note
      • Six poems
    • Karen J. McDonnell
      • Biographical Note
      • Four Poems
    • Alice Kinsella
      • Biographical Note
      • Five Poems
        
    • Michael J. Whelan
      • Biographical Note
      • Five Poems
    • Mark Roberts
      • Biographical Note
      • Three Poems

• PART 2: Juan Garrido Salgado
  • • Biographical note
    • Six poems with translations

Teasing Threads

• Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
  • Teasing Threads – The Pleasure of Forgotten Movies: Oliver Stone’s Alexander
  • Teasing Threads – Ostia Antica by Peter Jeffery
  • Teasing Threads – on housework music
  • Teasing Threads – On reading as public service.
  • Teasing Threads – 22 Years to Life by Mohammed Massoud Morsi
  • Teasing Threads – Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’

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• Looking back through time and memory: Celeste Augé launches This Little Worldby Karen J. McDonnell
• Vale Rae Desmond Jones
• ‘Snakes known to exist in this area’: ophidiophile poets Amanda Joy and Liana Joy Christensen talk to Zalehah Turner
• A Wonderful Variety of Tone and Theme: Melinda Smith launches The Loyalty of Chickens by Jenny Blackford
• A Question at the Shoreline: Noel Duffy launches All the Barbaric Glass by David Butler
• Shock Treatment: Simon Patton reviews Year of the Wasp by Joel Deane
• Tilting at Poetic Windmills: John Foulcher launches Goodbye, Cruel by Melinda Smith
• The Writhing, Hissing Life Force of the Poems: Liana Joy Christensen launches Snake Like Charms by Amanda Joy
  • Amanda Joy and Liana Joy Christensen Biographical Note
  • Amanda Joy: three poems
  • Liana Joy Christensen: three poems
• Masterly and Moving: Robyn Rowland launches Bone Fire by Susan Millar DuMars
• Visions and Visitations: Melinda Smith launches A Casual Penance by John Foulcher

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ISSUE 21. January- March 2017

• Featured Writers Part 1 – Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Serhiy Zhadan, Vladimir Aristov, and Yan Satunovsky: Biographical Note 
• ‘Abecedary of Despair’ by Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya
• ‘АБЕЦЕДАРИЙ ОТЧАЯНИЯ’ by Татьяна Бонч-Осмоловская
• ‘Продажні поети 60-х’ (‘Venal poets of the 60s’) by Serhiy Zhadan (Сергiй Жадан)
• ‘Занятия археологией’ (‘Practising archaeology’) and ‘australis’ by Vladimir Aristov (Владимир Аристов)
• ‘Мама, мама, когда мы будем дома?’ (‘Mother, mother, when will we return home?’) by Yan Satunovsky
  
• Part 2: The Rochford Street Review Editors – Zalehah Turner
  • Featuring Zalehah Turner
  • Zalehah Turner Biographical Note
  • Mark Roberts interviews Zalehah Turner
  • Zalehah Turner: Four Poems

Teasing Threads

• Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
  • Teasing Threads – The Pleasure of Forgotten Movies: Richard Loncraine’s The Haunting of Julia
  • Teasing Threads – Three Classical Westerns: 3. John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
  • Teasing Threads – Some thoughts on a beautiful photograph 
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: On going to see Robert Zemeckis’ Allied
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Ecce Laptop (cont)

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• Empathy for a convict conflicts with the harsh reality of stolen land: James Dunk reviews Cotter: A Novel by Richard Begbie
• Vale Roy Fisher
• Vale Joanne Kyger
• An Acute Aesthetic Sensibility: Alex Skovron launches Flute of Milk by Susan Fealy
• Nothing if Not Self-Aware: Jonathan Dunk reviews Chimerica, a Play by Lucy Kirkwood
• This is the Book for You: Amy Brown launches redactor by Eddie Paterson
• Nests in Everyday Things: Lisa Sharp Reviews Found & Made a Group Exhibition including Annelies Jahn
• To sky, to ground, to sea, to see: Lisa Sharp reviews Luminescent, an exhibition by Fiona Ryan
• Strange Beauty: Amanda Anastasi launches We the Mapless by Ian McBryde
• Sonorous and Wistful: Siobhan Hodge reviewers Forgiving Night for Day by Jacobus Capone
• Alert to Erasure, Exclusion, and Appropriation: Tina Giannoukos launches The Herring Lass by Michelle Cahill
• Quoting the Art: Lisa Sharp reviews Time After Time an exhibition by Ken Weathersby
• Living up to Tradition: Perry Lam reviews Heukseok Kids
• A fascination with sound, individual words and language: Paul Scully talks about his latest book, Suture Lines
• Word, Body, Voice: Sarah St Vincent Welch reviews Bare Witness Theatre Company’s Paradise Lost.
• Adventurous, challenging and thoughtful: Paul Scully reviews Our Lady of the Fence Post by J. H. Crone
• Linguistically and Conceptually Challenging: Alison-Jane Hunter reviews Wild Gestures by Lucy Durneen
• A Micro-Climate of Imagery: Mark Roberts reviews The List of Last Remaining by Louise Nicholas
• Vale John Upton
• Commonality & Respect: Linda Adair reviews Home Country by Urban Theatre Projects
• ‘Fallen Myrtle Trunk’ by Stuart Cooke: Zalehah Turner interviews the winner of the New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016
• Defiant gaze: Linda Adair reviews Not an animal or a plant an exhibition by Vernon Ah Kee
• A thought-provoking, immersive multimedia experience: Zalehah Turner reviews EXIT at UNSW Galleries
• Collaborations!: Mark Roberts reviews The Silences by Amanda Anastasi and Robbie Coburn & Scar to Scar by Robbie Coburn and Michele Seminara

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ISSUE 19: July 2016 – September 2016

Featured

• Featured Artist Georgina Pollard – Biographical Note curated by Ashley Haywood
  • Featured Artist Georgina Pollard: Biographical Note
• Featured Writers Part 1: New Shoots – curated by Zalehah Turner
  • New Shoots commissioned poets Mark Tredinnick, Eileen Chong and Eric Avery (curated by Zalehah Turner) – Biographical Note
  • New Shoots commissioned poems by Mark Tredinnick, Eric Avery and Eileen Chong
  • Calls for submissions for the New Shoots Poetry Prizes

• Featured Writers Part 2: Past Australian Poetry Café Poets – curated by Zalehah Turner
  • Australian Poetry’s Cafe Poet Program (2009-2014) and contributing Café Poets- Bibliographic note
  • ‘QUIETUDE’ by Mark Niehus
  • ‘CONTRAST II’ by Skye Loneragan
  • ‘Swimming in the Southern Ocean’ by Rachael Mead
  • ‘Not Thinking About the Circus, at the Circus’ by Angela Gardner
  • ‘Amsterdam towards winter’ by Kate Rees
  • ‘Minus Minus’ (extract) by Claine Keily
  • ‘Transparent City’/ ‘Ville filigrane’, ‘Snapshot’/ ‘Instantané’ and ‘Powder Puff’ by Daniel H. Dugas
  • ‘The glass table’ by Mark Liston
  • ‘Adopted’ by Alysha Herrmann, ‘Convergence’ by Janette Dadd and ‘waiting at the stop.’ by Indigo Eli
  • A gnome by Geoffrey Prince, ‘All the galaxies’ by Diane Caney and ‘Lap, lap.’ by Miriam Dale

Teasing Threads

• Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Umbrella by Will Self
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: On the use of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Australian advertisements
  • Teasing Threads – Three Classical Westerns: 2. Sam Peckinpah’s Ride the High Country
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Why everyone speaks the same way in Australian movies
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab to Darwin
  • Teasing Threads – Three classical Westerns: 1. Delmer Daves’ 3.10 to Yuma

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• “A vision of past savagery that lies maddeningly between truth and fiction”: James Dunk reviews Sarah Drummond’s The Sound
• Surreal Shapes: Siobhan Hodge reviews The Curtain Breathed Deeply by Justene Williams
• Bewilderment and Wonder: Claire Gaskin launches Reflections of a Temporary Self: New & Selected Poems by Grant Caldwell
• Sharp and Sombre: Siobhan Hodge reviews Gordon Bennett’s “Be Polite”
• Caught between Blue and Grey: Grounded, performed by Alison van Reeken
• Luciano Prisco – New Works, Poems from Christopher Barnett: Mark Roberts on Christopher Barnett, Poetry and Collaboration
• A Characteristically Bold Innovation in Form: Peter Stanley Launches Plevna: A Biography in Verse by Geoff Page
• “Orpheus, Eurydice, and Schrödinger in the one box”: Mike Ladd launches The Rise of the Machines and other love poems by Peter Goldsworthy
• Linguistic and Cultural Cross-Fertilization. Tina Giannoukos Reviews Fainting with Freedom by Ouyang Yu
• Notes from a Launch: Peter Boyle and Judith Beveridge on the launch of A Patch of Sun
  • A Delectable Smorgasbord of Poetry: Peter Boyle launches A Patch of Sun
  • Judith Beveridge comments on the launch of A Patch of Sun
• A Small But Explosive Book: Moya Costello Launches Cactus by Stevi-Lee Alver
• “Jules Leigh Koch finds the surreal within the real in his coastal, suburban and urban settings”: Mike Ladd launches Stripping Wallpaper from the Sky by Jules Leigh Koch
• A Lucid Illustration of Erratic, Wayward Human Substance: Jonathan Dunk Reviews SUDS’ production of Black Hands / Dead Section
• It Borders on Ruin Porn: Perry Lam reviews Suicide Squad
• “Humorous and Paradoxical”: Mike Ladd Launches ‘Original Clichés’ by Rob Walker
• The Forked Garden Path: Jonathan Dunk Reviews A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
• I Like Patrick Swayze Too: Perry Lam reviews Ghostbusters
• A Passionate, Lyrical, Desperate Voice: Antigone Kefala Remembers Dimitris Tsaloumas 1921-2015
• “Hetherington’s Touch is Light and Deft”- Glenda Guest reviews ‘Burnt Umber’
• Vale Billy Marshall-Stoneking
• Go to the Makers, Not the Mockers: Beth Spencer launches A Pocket Kit 2 by Kit Kelen
• A 1990s Japanese Mecha Anime: Perry Lam reviews Independence Day

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Issue 18. April 2016 – June 2016

Featured

• Featured Artist Nicci Pratten
  • Featured Artist Nicci Pratten Biographical Note – Curated by James Aksman-Glosz
• Featured Writer Mario Licón Cabrera
  • Issue 18 Featured Writer Mario Licón Cabrera (Curated by Michelle Cahill) – Biographical Note
  • Mario Licón Cabrera: Poems and translations – Curated by Michelle Cahill

Teasing Threads

• Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: A gag from Scary Movie
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Sam Mendes’ Spectre
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Gaspar Noe’s Love

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• Ivan Sen’s ‘Goldstone’: “a drama charged thriller which moves to the beat of the sacred land”- Zalehah Turner reviews the film that opened the 63rd Sydney Film Festival
• Kleber Mendonça Filho Wins the 63rd Sydney Film Prize for the “compelling and relevant,” Aquarius: review by Zalehah Turner
• ‘Growing Poetry’: Zalehah Turner reviews the Red Room Company’s New Shoots
• Powerful and Extensive: B. J. Muirhead Reviews Death Fugue by Sheng Keyi
• Cabinets, clocks and curiosities: Sarah St Vincent Welch reviews Wrong Way Time by Fiona Hall
• ‘The Lifeblood of the Poetry Communities Across Australia’: Zalehah Turner reviews The Australian Poets Festival
• Bjork Digital: Listen to Bjork Discuss her Latest Work at Carriageworks Sydney
• The Difficulty of Migration: Anna Couani Launches Father’s From the Edge Edited by Helen Nickas
• Living Twice Squared: Stevi-Lee Alver Observes Eileen Myles at Sydney University
• Gimme Shelter: Perry Lam previews Essential Scorsese: Selected by David Stratton
• Funny, Insightful and Touching: Anna Forsyth Reviews Fair Game by Carmel Bird
• The Vivid Landscape: Zalehah Turner previews this year’s Vivid Sydney
• Deeper Meanings Under an Accessible Surface: Ron Pretty Launches Cleanskin Poems by Laureen Williams
• Sydney Writers Festival: Ye Xin discusses Educated Youth
• Vale Gillian Mears
• ‘The interconnectedness of people, poetry and place’ at the BIG READ: NT Poetry- Zalehah Turner catches up with Alice Springs poet, Laurie May
• The Politics of the Australian Pastoral: Jonathan Dunk Reviews The Hands by Stephen Orr
• In the Shadow of Black Friday: Mark Roberts Previews the 2016 Sydney Writers Festival
• Twelve Days of Captivating and Life-changing Cinema: Zalehah Turner Previews the 63rd Sydney Film Festival Launch
• Shining with Sensuality: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson launches Painting Red Orchids by Eileen Chong
• Avengers Disassembled: Perry Lam reviews ‘Captain America: Civil War’
• Edging Towards a Rendezvous: Mike Coppin Reviews From Now On Everything Will Be Different by Eliza Vitri Handayani
• Character Shields at Full Power: Perry Lam reviews ‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’
• Rod Usher and the Quirkiness of levity: B. J. Muirhead Reviews Convent Mermaid by Rod Usher
• Vale Inge King
• Just Think of All the Merchandising Opportunities: Perry Lam reviews Zootopia
• A resonance that lingers: Judith Beveridge launches Everyday Epic by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
• “Is there such a thing as inner crookedness?”: Susan Hawthorne reviews Nothing Sacred by Linda Weste
• Telling Their Story Straight: Annette Marfording Reviews Not Just Black and White by Lesley and Tammy Williams
• The Big Bruise: Jonathan Dunk examines Montague Basement
• Making Connections: Mark Roberts Launches Headwaters by Anthony Lawrence at the Newcastle Writers Festival
• Plastic is the Colour: Lisa Sharp Reviews Fantastik Plastik by Anya Pesce at Factory 49
• A Magic Picture Coming into Focus: Libby Barratt Reviews Recent Paintings & Glassworks by Jeff Manning at The Shop Gallery Glebe
• Mechanical Symphonies and The Overview Effect: James Aksman-Glosz reviews Sophie Clague’s Pointing Devices at the SCA Galleries
• Hitchcockian in its Execution: Perry Lam reviews 10 Cloverfield Lane
• Diving In: Stevi-Lee Alver reviews Conversations I’ve Never Had by Caitlin Maling

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Issue 17. January 2016- March 2016

Featured

• Featured Artist: Tony Oliver – Curated by Mark Roberts
  • Featured Artist: Tony Oliver Biographical Note 
• Featured Writer: Michele Seminara
  • Featured Writer Michele Seminara – Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Michele Seminara: 4 Poems
  • A Common Engagement with Understandings: Martin Langford LaunchesEngraft by Michele Seminara

Teasing Threads

• Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down
  • Teasing Threads Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Ridley Scott’s The Martian
  • Teasing Threads – Why I prefer Hoopla Doopla to HBO
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Jason Moore’s Sisters
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Why I will not seeStar Wars The Force Awakens
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger

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• Vale Lyn Hatherley
• Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow: Perry Lam reviews Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
• Diverse and thought-provoking: Zalehah Turner reviews the 20th Biennale of Sydney
• Fusion of the Personal and the Imagined: Robbie Coburn Reviews Lilies and Stars by Rebecca Law
• without / within – a self portrait of the world: Lisa Sharp reviews Alone Together: In the company of strangers by Jo Meisner
• “Ahead of Us”: Siobhan Hodge Interviews Dennis Haskell
• Blast from the Past: Perry Lam reviews Gods of Egypt.
• When Romance is too Culturally Meaningful to be Common: Rebecca Law reviews Martin Langford’s ground
• Decades of Percolation: Anna Couani Launches Concrete Flamingos by Mark Roberts
• Towards an Ethics of Poetry: Dominique Hecq launches either, Orpheus andReport from a border by Dan Disney
• An Imaginative Renewal: Peter Kirkpatrick launches Pachinko Sunset by David Gilbey
• Great Humanity and Human Decency: Annette Marfording reviews The Simplest Words: A Storyteller’s Journey by Alex Miller
• The University of History: Vrasidas Karalis Reviews The Savonarola Syndrome by Brandon Cavallari
• Bluster and Badassery: Perry Lam reviews ’13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi’
• Like Perfume in a Room: Raewyn Alexander Reviews Excerpts from a Natural History by Holly Painter
• Savouring Small Things: Siobhan Hodge reviews Miniature Minutiae by Katherine Clayton
• The Crime of Comedy: Perry Lam reviews ‘North By Northeast’
• An Amazing Amalgam of Triumph and Grief: Tim Thorne launches The White Room Poems by Anne Kellas
• You’ll Never Listen to George Michael the Same Way Again: Perry Lam reviewsDeadpool
• Clever and amusing: Zalehah Turner reviews The Sydney Theatre Company’s production of ‘Arcadia’ by Tom Stoppard
• A World of Connections: Owen Bullock Reviews Trace by Cassandra Atherton
• The World goes on without Them: Perry Lam reviews ‘ATA’ at the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival
• Territories Within a Political Ecology: Ashley Haywood reviews Hell Broth, All of Them in There & Automated Reasoning Paradigm at Firstdraft
• Materialism is the New God: Perry Lam reviews ‘A Fool’ at The Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival
• An Achievement of Sorts: Rochford Street Review Passes 100,000 page views
• All Things Strange and Wonderful: Siobhan Hodge reviews Welcome to Night Vale,
• Perth Live Show 2016
• Strangers in a Strange Land: Perry Lam reviews ‘Kaili Blues’ at The Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival
• A Common Engagement with Understandings: Martin Langford Launches Engraftby Michele Seminara
• Showcasing Everyday Life: Perry Lam previews The Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival
• Kaleidoscopic Jigsaw Puzzle: Amy Hilhorst reviews Courland Penders: Coming Home by Ronald Corlette-Theuil
• Welcome Zalehah Turner – Rochford Street Review Associate Editor
• Sticking to the Familiar: Annette Marfording reviews The Best Australian Stories 2015 edited by Amanda Lohrey
• A Sharp Intelligence: Raewyn Alexander Reviews Carbon Shapes and Dark Matter by Stephanie Christie
• Vale Dimitris Tsaloumas
• Spoilt for Choice: Siobhan Hodge Previews the 2016 Perth International Arts Festival
• Welcome Perry Lam – Rochford Street Review Associate Editor
• An Eclectic Range of Subject Matter: Annette Marfording reviews The Best Australian Essays 2015 by Geordie Williamson
• Diane Busuttil Reports on The Refugee and Asylum Seeker Symposium: An Artistic and Political Platform Opposing Oppression
• Vale Venie Holmgren
• ‘After, there are the birds’: Anne Morgan Launches Weaving Nests with Smoke and Stone by Gina Mercer
• Welcome Siobhan Hodge – Rochford Street Review Associate Editor
• “It takes time and patience to be a good detective”: Annette Marfording reviewsDetective Work by John Dale
• Welcome Ashley Haywood – Rochford Street Review Associate Editor
• Visceral Art and Political Voids: Bernadette Smith Reviews Refuge & Have Your Say at Verge Gallery & Articulate Project Space
• Eccentric & Sustaining: Bernard Cohen launches The Party of Life by Beth Spencer
• Lyrical Flights, Journeys, Surprises & Originality: Raewyn Alexander Reviews The Burnt Hotel by Olivia Macassey
• Vale Marjorie Pizer

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Issue 16 October 2015 – December 2015

Featured

• Featured Writer: Rebecca Kylie Law – Biographical Note
  • Featured Writer Rebecca Kylie Law: 4 Poems
• Featured Artist: Stephen Hall – Biographical Note Curated by James Aksman-Glosz

Teasing Threads

• Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Cartoon & Conspiracy Theory by Neil J Pattinson
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: David Fincher’s Gone Girl
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Nadav Lapid’sPoliceman
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Zac Hilditch’s These Final Hours
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Alain Guiraudie’sStranger by the Lake

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• United in Compassion and Support: Michele Seminara on the launch of Beyond the Father’s Shadow a film by Saba Vasefi
• Murray’s Eclectic World of Musings: Patrick McCauley Reviews Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
• Where Ugliness Bides its Time: B. J. Muirhead reviews Breaking Beauty edited by Lynette Washington 2014
• All Right with Fright: Charmaine Fernandez Reviews Dead Ringer at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
• Karen Le Rossignol Launches The Vine Bleeds by J M Yates
  • J M Yates discusses the writing of her memoir The Vine Bleeds
• Annette Marfording’s Best Reads of 2015
• Rochford Street Review Turns 4
• Hot Stuff: Andy Kissane Launches 4W New Writing Issue 26
• A Slow Dance: Shane Strange Reviews Moments by Subhash Jaireth
• Beyond Ourselves: Dee Michell launches Prayers of a Secular World edited by Jordie Albiston and Kevin Brophy
• Vrasidas Karalis reviews Artifacts: A Hymn To Materiality by George Michelakakis
• Fracturing Colonialism: Phillip Hall Reviews Journey To Horseshoe Bend by TGH Strehlow
• Seeking the Romantic Amongst the Horror of the Civilized: Patrick McCauley Reviews Poems 1957- 2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann
• A Discursive Poetics: Caitlin Maling Reviews Drones and Phantoms by Jennifer Maiden
• Ashley Haywood Reviews Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle by Krissy Kneen
• Poetry as Needlework: Simon Patton Reviews Lucy Dougan’s The Guardians
• A Mirror of Ourselves: Heather Taylor Johnson Reviews An Astronaut’s Life by Sonja Dechian
• Depth & Surface: Jen Webb launches Moments by Subhash Jaireth
• Small Gems of Poetry: Beatriz Copello Reviews Fixing the Broken Nightingale by Richard James Allen
• The Chaotic Swirl of Experience: Tina Giannoukos reviews I Too Am Salammboby Hong Ying
• “The Primacy of Our Ordinariness”: William Seeto Reviews Inside-Out Sculptureby Rose Ann McGreevy
• Binding Politics with Poetry: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson launches swimming underground by Jenni Nixon
• Island Press: the Story Continues
• Looking Forward: B. J. Muirhead Reviews The World to Come edited by Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi
• Blink and You’ll Miss It: Mark Roberts discovers Eight Paintings in One Night
• A New Milestone in Artistic Freedom: James Aksman-Glosz reviews Matthys Gerber 2015 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• A Hummingbird Mind: Les Wicks reviews Porch Light by Ivy Ireland
• Two of a Kind: Mishko Desovski Reviews One & One, exhibition of artworks by Denis Mizzi and Irene Schell
• Rich, Rewarding & Complex : Mark Roberts Reviews Aleks Danko My Fellow Aus-Tra-Aliens
• Accomplished, Innovative & Hybrid: Anna Couani Reviews Harriet Chandler by Moya Costello

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Issue 15 July 2015 – September 2015

Featured

• Kate Just – Featured Artist Issue 15: Biographical Note
• Michelle Cahill – Featured Writer Issue 15: Biographical Note
  ..……..– Three Poems by Michelle Cahill

Teasing Threads

• Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Red Dirt Talking by Jacqueline Wright
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: American Hustle
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Annette Haywood-Carter’s Savannah
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: The Animated Movie
  • Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Jonathan Glazer’sUnder the Skin
  • Teasing Threads:Sophia Coppola’s The Bling Ring

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• Ten Year on an Island by Philip Roberts – The Beginnings of Island Press
• Distilled Into Three Lines of Ink: Tash Adams Reviews For Instance: A Haiku & Senryu Collection by Matt Hetherington
• Pursuing the Elusive Whole: Ashley Haywood Reviews 3 Painters: Collected Works Volume 5 by John Watson
• A Poetry that Holds Great Power: Heather Taylor Johnson reviews Immune Systems by Andy Jackson
• Complex, Surreal & Striking: Peter Thomas reviews The Genderator
• Philosophical & Thoughtful Conversations: Brenda Walker launches The Mind’s Own Place by Ian Reid
• A Contemplative and Exacting Art: Aidan Coleman reviews Something is Said by Lidija Šimkutė
• Rochford Street Review at the 2015 Perth Poetry Festival
  • Friends and Fellow Poets: Nicholas Hasluck launches the Perth Poetry Festival
  • Go Go Gonzo in the West: Peter Jeffery on the Perth Poetry Festival
  • A Temple of Words: Amy Hilhorst explores the 2015 Perth Poetry Festival
• Sara Khamkoed on Anxiety and Creativity at the Byron Bay Writers Festival with Mia Freedman, Andrew Knight and Ramona Koval
• Seeing the Country’s Fable for What it is: Bruce Pascoe launches Locust Girl by Merlinda Bobis
• The Psychological Effect of Real Experience: James Aksman-Glosz reviewsVideo One Painting by Suzy Faiz
• “Sweet as Torn Basil”: Susan Fealy Reviews Net Needle by Robert Adamson
• An echo of how we live: James Aksman-Glosz reviews The Original of Laura by Chelsea Lehmann
• Little Ships and Short Lives: Nickolas Falkner Reviews Collected Poems Lesbia Harford
• The Juxtaposition of Beauty and Ugliness: Sara Khamkoed Discusses John Dahlsen’s Session at the Byron Bay Writers Festival
• Conscience before Poetry: Rebecca Kylie Law reviews Paul Carter’s Ecstasies and Elegies
• The Byron Bay Writers Festival on the Road: Sara Khamkoed Encounters 5 Writers in Alstonville
• An Astonishing 61 Years of Poesis: Allan Padgett launches True to Poetry in my Fashion by Peter Jeffery
• Closer to the Centre of Things: Rochford Street Review Previews the 19th Byron Bay Writers Festival
• Storytelling: Mark Roberts Previews Yellamundie 2015 The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Playwriting Festival
• In the Presence of a Master Writer: Gabrielle Lord Launches My Hearts Are Your Hearts by Carmel Bird
• How do you Capture Jazz? Nickolas Falkner Reviews Across the Line by Fransesca Sasnaitis
• From Domestic Homemaker to Revolutionary Bomb-Maker: Ashley Haywood reviews Suffragist by Katy B Plummer
• A Wonderful Cross-woven Web of Sensory Delights: Andrew Burke reviewsScavenger’s Season by Christopher (Kit) Kelen
• A World of Stability and Chaos: James Aksman-Glosz reviews The Mobility of Happiness by Sara Oscar
• Collaboration: Ian Gibbins reviews construct a world by Francesca Sasnaitis & Alex R Chapman
• Born in Modernity: David O’Sullivan Reviews A Vicious Example by Michael Aiken
• A Very Sydney Decadence: Mark Roberts Reviews Ruben Guthrie

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ISSUE 14 April 2015 – June 2015

• Featured Writer – Anna Couani
  • Ideas for Novels 4
• A Portrait of the Artist as Place: Joe Dolce Reviews Bluewren Cantos by Mark Tredinnick
• Forever the Same & Never the Same: Maureen Gordon Opens Floribunda an Exhibition by Judy Morris and Ian Gibbins
• A Collection of Great Variety and Intensity: Charles Freyberg reviews An Existential Grammar by Paul Scully
• Connections: Sara Khamkoed reviews Interchange: A Printmaking Dialogue between Australia and Thailand at  the Mosman Art Gallery 
• Inexplicable Angles : Charlotte Guest review Babel Fish by Jillian Pattinson
• Differences: Anna Couani reviews Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis
• Sydney Film Festival Competition Winners Announced
• Sydney Film Festival 2015: Vinterberg and Hardy – Far From the Madding Crowd
• This Tethering Muliebrity: Edric Mesmer Reviews terra bravura by Meredith Wattison
• Sydney Film Festival: Mark Roberts Previews the Official Competition
• Loss, Grief, Change, and Memory: Luke Simon reviews Now You Shall Know by Jennifer Compton
• Vale J S Harry
• Australian Films Centre Stage at the 62nd Sydney Film Festival
• Living the Life of a Writer: Kerryn Goldsworthy Launches First Things First: Selected Letters By Kate Llewellyn 1977-2004
• Artists Left Hanging by Australia Council Decision
• A Place Where You Can Bring Things Together: Andrew Burke reviews Open House by David Brooks
• The Art of Regional Living: Christopher Pollnitz launches The Hour of Silvered Mullet by Jean Kent
• Permawar, Pornography and Fiction: Mark Roberts Considers Mohsin Hamid’s Opening Address at the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival
• Even Poetic Exercises are Good for You: B. J. Muirhead Reviews The Weekly Poem edited by Jordie Albistonf
• Remembering Shelton Lea
• Where does the ALP Stand on the future of government support for the Arts in light of Budget 2015?
• Rochford Street Review Previews the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival
• Featured Writer – Anna Couani
  • Ideas for Novels 4
  • Anna Couani talks about the ‘Ideas for Novels’ series
• Writing is on the Wall for Arts Funding in Australia
• Art Books – A Discussion: Max Schumann at Artspace
• Keep Rochford Street Review Running – Take Out a Supporting Subscription
• It’s Been a Big Life So Far: Cate Kennedy Launches the The Abyssinian Contortionist by David Carlin
• A Sparkling Constellation of Poems: John Jenkins launches Princes by Night by Jeltje Fanoy
• A Direct Invocation of Supernature : John Hawke launches Ticket to Ride by Philip Hammial
• Standing for Something – the raison d’etre of Julia Gillard: Linda Adair & Lucinda Adair-Roberts reflect on a conversation
• Imaginative Rightness: MTC Cronin launches The Ascendant by Maria Zajkowski
• Ironic, Lighthearted, Funny: Carmel Macdonald Grahame Launches Motherhood Statement by Karen Throssell
• Questions, Ambiguities, Bodies: Simon Patton reviews The Thin Bridge by Andy Jackson
• The poems are their own defence: Brook Emery launches Open House by David Brooks
• B. J. Muirhead considers the laughter in Lachlan Brown’s Limited Cities.
• Complex, Provocative & Thoughtful: Peter Boyle launches The Law of Poetry by MTC Cronin
• 2,500 years ago Slam Poetry was born: Previewing Poetic License by Outer Urban Projects
• A Sophisticated and Assured Debut: Myron Lysenko launches Still Life With Grandmother by Christopher Race
• Anna Couani – Featured Writer Issue 14
  • Introduction
  • Ideas for Novels 1
  • Ideas for Novels 2
  • Ideas for Novels 3
• A Powerful Evocation of an Artistic Friendship: James Keating Reviews Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
• A Female Odysseus For the Times: Angelo Loukakis launches Vagabondage by Beth Spencer
• The Australian Poetry Podcast: Episode 3 Mark Roberts on Rochford Street Review, Publishing & Writing
• Lifting the Roof and Showing us Inside: Geoff Lemon launches Every Time You Close Your Eyes by Bel Schenk
• Cecilia White: ‘the grass is greener’

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Issue 13 October 2014 – March 2015 (Special Double Issue)

• The Doing is the Discovery and the Discovery is the Making: Sheila Murphy talks to Mark Roberts
• Motion Juncture – Sheila Murphy
• The Vulnerability of Individuals in the Face of History: Lisa Gorton launches This Intimate War: Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 by Robyn Rowland
• Addressing the Social: Elizabeth Ashburn’s Artist talk at Articulate Project Space forTaking Up Space
• Big, Bold and Glorious: Dr Janine Burke launches Kate Just’s The Furies
• Alien Steampunk: B. J. Muirhead reviews The Airmen (Part 1: The Pirates of Aireon) by R.J. Ashby
• For the Words…. Les Wicks experiences the International Poetry Festival of Granada (Nicaragua)
• Adding it all up: Mark Roberts considers Eight + One at The Shop Gallery
• Woman Scream: Michele Seminara previews The Second Sydney International Women’s Poetry Festival
• A Sensibility Tuned to the Wonders of the World: Jean Kent launches Scavenger’s Season by Kit Kelen
• The Magic of Being Human: B. J. Muirhead reviews Catalina by Danny Fahey
• A Curious & Casual Blend of Metaphors: Nathan Hondros Reviews Nightswim by Justin Lowe
• Der Kreis Opens the 22nd Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival
• The Interplay of Tones and Images: Shane McCauley launches Conversations I’ve Never Had by Caitlin Maling
• New from Rochford Street Press – El Asombrado by Les Wicks
• Stepping Out of the Devine: B. J. Muirhead reviews The Niquab and the Mumkin by David Foster
• Fate of the Modern Soul: Robbie Coburn Reviews Sunset on Santorini by David Foster
• Fragments of a Whole: Mark Roberts Explores Feral 4 – Articulate project space.
• The Indomitable Spirit of the Film Maker: Michele Seminara reviews Symphony of Strange Waters & Don’t Bury My Heart
• Living Life in the Rhythm Section: Nathan Hondros reviews One Hour Seeds Another by Andrew Burke
• ‘Aurevoir to Carl & Trish’ an unpublished poem by John Forbes
• The Problem of Reading: B. J. Muirhead reviews Flashing the Square & Writing to the Edge
• The Perpetual See-saw of Life and Death: Justin Lowe reviews Before Bone and Viscera by Robbie Coburn
• Mallarme Got it Wrong: Mark Roberts Reviews Captives by Angela Meyer
• Specialling the Special: Stevi-Lee Alver reviews The Special by David Stavanger
• An Absurd and Human World— Andy Kissane reviews Short Fiction for an Absurd World by Bronwyn Rodden
• Solfeggio – Sheila Murphy
• Welcome to 2015
• Surreal Inventiveness: Peter Kirkpatrick launches brush by joanne burns
• An Unflinching Dissection of Human Behavior: Lisa Wardle reviews The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn
• Curio and Curiouser: Hamish Danks Brown reviews Curio by Kristin Hannaford
• Completely Analogue in Operation: Mark Roberts considers The Microscope Project
• From Cemeteries to Video Stores: Francis Thompson launches Salt and Bone by Zenobia Frost 
• Are You Receiving Me: Mark Roberts Previews The Fourth Antenna Documentary Film Festival
• Connection, Disconnection, & Reconnection: Lisa Wardle reviews When Sky Becomes the Space Inside Your Head by Ed Wright

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ISSUE 12 June – September 2014

• Rochford Street Review passes 60,000 hits
• A Reader Runner in a Maze Bright: Hamish Danks Brown reviews Maze Bright by Jaya Savige
• Vale Rod Milgate
• Clutching, Following, Wondering, Gazing: Lisa Gorton Launches Final Theory by Bonny Cassidy
• The Restraint of Meaning: Stevi-Lee Alver reviews the #concrete issue of Australian Poetry Journal
• Straddling Prose Poetry and Microfiction: Shady Cosgrove launches Writing to the Edge: Prose Poems & Microfiction.
• Vale Martin Harrison: Poet, Teacher, Broadcaster….
  • The Distribution of Voice by Martin Harrison. Reviewed in SCARP 23, 1993
• A Desire to Take Apart Language: Jo Scicluna launches Glitching by Stu Hatton
• The Duality of Things: Jennifer Strauss Launches Lupa and Lamb by Susan Hawthorne
• Who is Kent MacCarter? Pam Brown launches Sputnik’s Cousin by Kent MacCarter
• Stitching the Larger Image: Shady Cosgrove Launches The Glove Box and Other Stories by Vivienne Plumb
• The Poetry of the Workshop: Francesca Sasnaitis discusses These Heathen Dreams: Journey of a Cultural Bolshevik: Christopher Barnett
• A Disconcerting Bravery: Andy Jackson launches One Hour Seeds Another by Andrew Burke
• Rules? What Rules! Book Reviewers Under Attack!
• Vale Liam Davison
• “Tactics for an enchanting coexistence”: Rebecca Kylie Law reviews Anonymous Folk Songs by James Stuart.
• A Genre for our Generation: Heather Taylor Johnson reviews The Swan Book by Alexis Wright

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ISSUE 11 March – May 2014

• Challenging Archetypes: Shirley Lu reviews Outcrop: Radical Australian Poetry of Land
• Writers to Prime Minister Tony Abbott: Restore funding to the arts!
• A Story of Gradual Attunement: Alex Chapman reflects on Annamaria Weldon’s The Lake’s Apprentice.
• Flowing Lines and Hypnotic Melodies: Jean Kent launches Bluewren Cantos by Mark Tredinnick
• Conversational & Honest: Petrina Meldrum reviews Dear Writer Revisited by Carmel Bird
• Rochford Street Review passes 50,000 page hits
• Clever and Surprising: Sherryl Clark reviews Chains of Snow by Jakob Ziguras
• Launching Beyond The Ohlala Mountains: Alan Brunton Poems 1968 – 2002
• The Accumulation of Instances: Martin Langford launches Peony by Eileen Chong
• Vale Ken Taylor
  • In Memoriam: Ron Pretty remembers Ken Taylor
  • Fire and Water: Vale Charles (Ken) Taylor, poet & filmmaker 1930 – 2014
• Infused With Possibilities: Stu Hatton Reviews The Beautiful Anxiety by Jill Jones
• How Can A Garden Grow? Littlies and Biggies in David Mortimer’s Magic Logic. Reviewed by Rebecca Kylie Law
• Pushing Boundaries. Mark Roberts Reviews Beside Rivers by Susan Adams
• Poetry & Performance at the Blue Space Poetry Jam
• Anthony Lawrence – the blog post Southerly refused to publish.
• Writers for Refugees – Melbourne Public Launch
• “Perception and Memory”: Robbie Coburn reviews Empty Your Eyes by Robert Adamson

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ISSUE 10 December 2013 – February 2014

Pacific Solution 2 – Mark Roberts 2012

• Vale Matthew John Davies
• “Is dance who you are or what you do?” -Dr Beatriz Copello Reviews …the dancer from the dance
• Horrors & Hay: Les Wicks reviews Rain Season by Robbie Coburn
• The Picturesque, The Haze and Other Thoughts: Rebecca Kylie Law reviews The Collected Blue Hills by Laurie Duggan
• The Ultimate Commitment: The Poetry of Michael Dransfield, Vicki Viidikas and Robert Harris by Robert Adamson
• Weaving an Eerie Tale: Victoria Nugent reviews Juno & Hannah by Beryl Fletcher
• Diverse and Confronting: Andy Kissane reviews Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital
• The Simultaneous Coexistence of All Time: Stephen Edgar launches Tempo by Sarah Day
• “Let There Be War Between Us”: Robbie Coburn reviews Decline and Fall by Rae Desmond Jones
• A Poignant Yearning: Anna Couani reviews Daughters of Castellorizo by Zeny Giles
• Courageous and Compelling: Judith Beveridge launches Signal Flare by Anthony Lawrence
• Traversing identity and surrealism: Libby Hart reviews Free Logic by Rachael Briggs
• Grief and Adolescent Angst: Victoria Nugent reviews The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna
• Born and Bred: Anthony Lynch launches Circle Work by Cameron Lowe
• Eclectic and Very Satisfying: Peter Boyle reviews Mood Lightning

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Issue 9: September 2013 – November 2013

• The Petrov Poems land in Melbourne and Sydney
  • What Does a Spy Look Like? Kevin Brophy Launches The Petrov Poems by Lesley Lebkowicz in Melbourne
  • Oscillations, Tensions and Drama: joanne burns launches The Petrov Poems by Lesley Lebkowicz in Sydney
• F for Fake: Poetry and Plagiarism
• Battered Zucchini Flowers: Julia Miller reviews The Conversation by David Brooks
• “There is history, but it won’t tell”: Rae Desmond Jones Launches Sea of Heartbeak (Unexpected Resilience) by Les Wicks
• A Non Review of The First 30 and Other Poems by Graham Nunn
• A Slow Unfolding: Patrick McCauley Reviews Limen by Susan Hawthorne
• Regime Takes a Stand Against Plagiarism: Mark Roberts Reviews Regime Issue 2
• A Combination of Accident, Pleasure & Deep Thought: Ron Pretty Launches Kevin Brophy’s Walking: New & Selected Poems
• With Pretty Air and Marginal Grace: Rebecca Kylie Law review’s The Sea of Heartbeak (Unexpected Resilience) by Les Wicks
• All Features Great and Small: Robbie Coburn reviews Between Giants by Ashley Capes
• Fidelio Geronimo: Duncan Hose’s Launch speech for Corey Wakeling’s Goad Omen.
• Beautifully Composed Poetry: Judith Beveridge launches Magic Logic by David Mortimer
• Cornelis Vleeskens: towards a retrospective – Mark Roberts
• Bringing the Reader Full Circle: Lisa Wardle reviews The Swarm by Andy Kissane
• “… go out to the world of cow” – listening to Queenie, Sappho and Hawthorne: Sarah St Vincent Welch reviews ‘Cow’ by Susan Hawthorne
• when they came/ for you elegies/of resistance – Christopher Barnett’s Melbourne Book Launch

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Issue 8: June 2013 – August 2013

• A Hammer With Which to Shape Reality: Kit Kelen Launches It Comes from All Directions: New and Selected Poems by Rae Desmond Jones
• A Deeply Personal Experience: Kate Pardey reviews Peace, Love and Khaki Socks by Kim Lock
• So Honest, So Textured, So Real: Les Wicks Launches What the Afternoon Knows by Ron Pretty
• Something for Everyone: Lisa Wardle review Undertow by Susan Austin
• Enjoying the Reading Ride: Pam Brown Launches Boom by Liam Ferney
• Art, Memory & Dreams: Claire Nashar Reviews Hotel Hyperion by Lisa Gorton
• Launching Love at Byron Bay – George Megalogeni to launch Australian Love Poems 2013
• An Overview of Visual Poetry & Mail Art in Australia by Julie Clarke
• A Warning in the Water: Robbie Coburn Reviews The Sunlit Zone by Lisa Jacobson
• Literature, refugees and pumpkin pancake – Michelle Cahill on Multicultural Literature & the PNG Solution
• Sydney Launch of Mud Map: Australian Women’s Experimental Writing – Text Special Issue 17
• A Sense of Courageous Innocence: Grant Caldwell launches Four Plots for Magnets by Luke Davies.
• Michael Sharkey to launch What the Afternoon Knows by Ron Pretty
• Sydney and Newcastle Launches for Notes For The Translators from 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets
• Life lived outside the enclosure: Virginia Shepherd reviews Small Wonders by Anna Couani
• A Writerly Experience: Petrina Meldrum reviews Varamo by César Aira (Trans. by Chris Andrews).
• Playful Interplay: Mark Roberts reviews Portraits – 54 Poems by Lizz Murphy
• Something Astonishing: Rae Desmond Jones reviews Dark Night Walking with McCahon, by Martin Edmond

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Issue 7: March 2013 – May 2013

• A Welcome Life: Les Wicks reviews Honey & Hemlock by Julie Watts.
• Pushing Boundaries: Mark Roberts reviews amphora by joanne burns
• The Stella Prize Short List – a long time coming
• Language and Chatty Syntax: Andrew Burke reviews 1953: A verse narrative by Geoff Page
• What does satisfaction feel like: Miriam Zolin reviews Tarcutta Wake by Josephine Rowe
• Intellectual Exuberance and Dark Irony: Tina Giannoukos Reviews Street to Street by Brian Castro
• Recording Images: Robbie Coburn reviews Flying Low in the Minor Key by Anthony Lawrence
• Fragments and the Whole: Mark Roberts reviews The Pursuit of Happiness by Laurie Duggan
• The Ultimate Commitment: Michael Dransfield on the 40th Anniversary of His Death
• A Taster-Plate Full of Possibilities: Paul Summers reviews Water Mirrors by Nicholas Powel
• Spinifex Press and Finola Moorhead’s Modern Classic
  • The thinking about writing: berni m janssen launches Finola Moorhead’s A Handwritten Modern Classic
  • “How little we change! How much we change!” – Thoughts on new edition of A Handwritten Modern Classic – Finola Moorhead
• A Heartrending Memoir: Georgina Scillio reviews An Imaginary Mother by Bron Nicholls.
• Confronting the Culture, Language and History of War: Mark Roberts reviews Valence: Considering War Through Poetry and Theory by Susan Hawthorne
• Spineless Wonder announces the The joanne burns Award
• The Perfect Word: Lisa Wardle reviews the The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee

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ISSUE 6 November 2012 – February 2013

• A Voice Caged in Paper: Les Wicks reviews Private Conversations Vol 2 by Cameron Hindrum
• Music and Words: Mark Roberts previews Seven Stations – in any order – a love poem for Sydney. A song cycle by poet Chris Mansell and composer Andrew Batt-Rawden
• Sweet flesh of memory: Mark Roberts reviews Burning Rice by Eileen Chong
• Artist and Protector of Girls: joanne burns launches Darger: his girls by Julie Chevalier
• The Kraken Wakes – Rochford Street Review is back
• Poems for the People: Robbie Coburn reviews Stepping Over Seasons by Ashley Capes
• These Heathen Dreams – help complete this important film on Christopher Barnett.
• Searching for the Past: Robbie Coburn reviews On the Circumvesuviana by Lucy Dougan
• Abortion, desertion, corruption, self-interest, revenge and the need for justice: Petrina Meldrum reviews The Tower Mill by James Moloney
• An expression of awe & wonder: Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper reviews Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies.
• Crime and Ghosts: Dianne Dean reviews What the Dead Said by D.J. Daniels
• Kris Hemensley recalls Charles Buckmaster on the 40th anniversary of his death
• Happy Birthday Rochford Street Review!
• Risk Taking and Fast-paced Comedy: Heather Taylor Johnson reviews Pangamonium by Zanesh Catkin
• Vive la madness! Chris Mansell Launches P76 Issue 6
• Savouring the Undertow: Mark Roberts reviews Body Language by Elizabeth Allen
• Shards of Amber Dreams: Francesca Sasnaitis reviews Resinations by Javant Biarujia
• A sense of the magical: Heather Taylor Johnson reviews Something Wrong by Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen
• A message from the “AND”: John Edwards speaks at the launch of The Selected Your Friendly Fascist
• The miniature level of perception: Jal Nicholl reviews Anyworld by Pam Brown

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Issue 5 August – October 2012

• Following the Rhythm of the Journey: Heather Taylor Johnson reviews Asymmetry by Aidan Coleman
• Gig Ryan reviews Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden & Beneath Our Armour by Peter Bakowski
• Practicing for the Novel: Lyndon Walker reflects on Tarcutta Wake by Josephine Rowe
• Review and Launch – a Michael Sharkey Double.
• Pointing a Tongued Sword: Heather Taylor Johnson reviews ‘Another Fine Morning in Paradise’ by Michael Sharkey.
• Mischief and Joy: Anne Pender Launches Michael Sharkey’s Another Fine Morning in Paradise.
• A Fraught-Filled Game: Dianne Dean reviews Dragon and the Crow by T. B. McKenzie.
• Treading the lesser-known path: Gig Ryan Reviews One Under Bacchus by Duncan Hose
• Gossamer and Robust: Paul Summers reviews Travelling with the Wrong Phrasebooks by Jean Kent
• A Determination to Endure: Julia Wakefield reviews The Butcher’s Window by Carmel Williams
• Punchy Twisting Lingo: Gig Ryan reviews ‘Career’ by Liam Ferney
• Winners of the inaugural Queensland Literary Awards announced.
• Alan Loney launches open sesame by Michael Farrell
• Something Disconcerting and Delicious: Mark Roberts reviews Schadenvale Road by Chris Mansell.
• Unbroken: John Jenkins launches Chain of Hearts by Karen Throssell
• Tongues of Flame: Mark Roberts previews the 2012 Queensland Poetry Festival
• The Ruthless Eye: Rae Desmond Jones reviews Undercover of Lightness by Andrew Burke.
• An eclectic tour de force: Mark Roberts reviews Famous Reporter 43

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Issue 4: May – July 2012 Contents

• Vale Cornelis Vleeskens – Mark Roberts And Kris Hemensley.
• Playful and Pensive Poems: Andrew Burke Reviews ‘a pocket Kit’ by Christopher Kelen and ‘Seem’ by Alan Jefferies.
• To whinge or not to whinge: Marginalising feminist writing in Australia.
• A Tribute – Stephen Lawrence reviews ‘the new black’ by Evie Shockley.
• Concentrated ‘Ratbaggery’: Mark Roberts reviews ‘Barking Wings’ by Les Wicks.
• Torn papyrus and weathered stone: Mark Roberts reviews ‘N thing is Set in St ne’ by Cecilia White.
• Flying by the seat your pants: Anna Couani reviews ‘Cairo Paris Melbourne’ by Maher Abou Elsaoud.
• The quest for infinity: Francesca Sasnaitis reviews ‘Conjuror’ by Allan Browne.
• Rochford Street Review – More than just words…..
• Hope and Resilience: Linda Adair reviews ‘Bathing Franky’.
• The lives of three saints: Lucas Smith reviews Unaccountable Hours by Stephen Scourfield.
• Diversity and Cohesion: Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper reviews Thirty Poets edited by Felicity Plunkett.
• Expectations – Great and Small: Linda Adair reviews ‘The Recluse’ by Evelyn Juers.
• A Sparkling Constellation: Kate Pardey reviews The Hum of Concrete by Anna Solding.
• “Getting Excited by the Writing & Wanting More of It”: Ralph Wessman recalls 25 years as editor and publisher of ‘famous reporter’.
• Six at Once: Pam Brown launches the latest Vagabond Press Rare Object Series.

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Issue 3 March/April (and a bit of May) 2012.

• Structure, Technique and Passion – Mark Roberts reviews The Abbotsford Mysteries by Patricia Sykes. Spinifex Press. 2011
• Signifying the Feminine: Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper reviews This Woman by Adrienne Eberhard Black Pepper, 2011
• Poetry Conferences each side of the Tasman: Short Takes on Long Poems and The Political Imagination.
• Poetry of the Great Australian Nightmare: Rae Desmond Jones reviews The Welfare Of My Enemy by Anthony Lawrence. Puncher & Wattmann Poetry, 2011.
• Writing Elevated to the Label of Literature: Lyndon Walker reviews Late Night Shopping by Rhyll McMaster. Brandl & Schlesinger. Poetry 2012.
• New Queensland Government Axes Writing Awards by Mark Roberts.
• The more things change…..small presses and magazines then and now by Mark Roberts.
• Prose Poem or travel writing? Mark Roberts reviews Vanuatu Moon (Parts 1 & 2) by Paul Cliff. PressPress 2011.
• “Lots of energy here, not much control”: Your Friendly Fascist – 1970 – 1984. Rae Desmond Jones remembers…..
• Adam Aitken on The Political Imagination: Contemporary Postcolonial and Diasporic Poetries Conference.
• Vale Bruce Bennett.
• Michael Dransfield Special
  • Michael Dransfield: Table of Contents
  • Why Dransfield…Why now?
  • “Who was Michael Dransfield?” Robert Adamson revisits ‘Michael Dransfield’s Lives: A Sixties Biography’ by Patricia Dobrez.
  • Revisiting Dobrez on Dransfield: Adam Aitken on Michael Dransfield’s Lives by Patricia Dobrez.
  • Michael Dransfield – 39 Years Dead by Mark Roberts.
  • A non-exhaustive list of resources (articles and reviews) on and about Dransfield.
• Vale Stephen Lawrence
• A writer of rare talent: Kate Pardey reviews ‘Foal’s Bread’ by Gillian Mears. Allen and Unwin, 2011.
• Little Gems of Poems: Mark Roberts reviews Knuckled by Fiona Wright. Giramondo Poets 2011.
• Beautiful strands of emotion: Dianne Dean reviews The Child of Hope by Gary Stowe. Dragonfall Press. 2011.

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Issue 2 January/February 2012

• All Dressed Up – Stephen Lawrence reviews Mascara Issue 10 and Jacket 2, ‘51 Contemporary poets from Australia.
• The Long Haul – Pat Woolley Responds to Michael Wilding’s ‘A Publishing Memoir’.
• Short Bursts – Lucas Smith reviews life kills by miles vertigan, Sleepers Publishing 2011
• Carol Novack – A life remembered. Tributes from John Jenkins and Rae Desmond Jones
• A new front opens in the ‘Poetry Wars’ – John Tranter, David McCooey and Peter Minter on ‘that anthology’ (Australian Poetry Since 1788)
• An Uneven Debut – Lucas Smith reviews The Rattler and other stories by A.S. Patrić. Spineless Wonders 2011.
• Scattered Jewels: Mark Roberts Reviews Allotments by Laurie Duggan
• I say AU, you say UA…..Mark Roberts reviews ‘AU/UA: Contemporary Poetry of Ukraine and Australia / Сучасна поезія України та Австралії’
• Three Novellas – Lucas Smith reviews The Dark Wet by Jess Huon.

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Issue 1. November/ December 2011

• Comments on Mike Ladd’s review of Australian Poetry Since 1788, edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, UNSW Press, in The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Spectrum’ November 12-13 2011. by Mark Roberts
• Kris Hemensley on Pete Spence’s new collection ‘Perrier Fever’. Grand Parade Poets 2011. by Kris Hemensley
• MICHAEL WILDING – THE WOOLLEY YEARS by Mark Roberts
• KINSELLA JOINS T. S. ELIOT PRIZE BOYCOTT by Mark Roberts
• Blending into the Buddha Tree – Chris Mooney-Singh’s THE BEARDED CHAMELEON by Mark Roberts
• The Beautiful Dead – THIRTEEN POEMS FROM THE DEAD by Rae Desmond Jones by Mark Roberts

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Published by Rochford Press
ISSN 2200-9922

 

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