Issue 34, 2022:1
Issue 33. 2021:3

- 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
- 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
- Ciarán O’Rourke: Five Poems
- Pete Spence Postcards
- Entering a a liminal space: Denise O’Hagan launches The Density of Compact Bone by Magdalena Ball
- Poems of embodiment: Kerri Shying launches in the same breath by Alan Jeffries
- Towards the Open Sea: Martin Langford launches The Leaving by Brian Purcell
- A remarkable feat of poetic ability: Rachael Mead and Alison Flett launches Rhymes With Hyenas by Heather Taylor Johnson
- A sense of the numinous: Dr Anne Elvey launches This Shuttered Eye by Rose Lucas
- Unspoken ironies and double meanings: Mike Ladd launches In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena Dinic
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Issue 32 2021:2

Featured Artist Issue 32: eila vinwynn
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
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
Articles
Obituary
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Issue 31 2021:1

Featured Artist Issue 31: 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
Visual Arts
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.
- 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
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
Obituary
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Issue 28 2020:1
Featured Artists Issue 28:
…..Fiona Davies
…..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
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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
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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
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
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Issue 26
October 2018 – December 2018

Featured
- Featured Artist: Lisa Sharp
- Featured Writer: Zhu Zhu
- Featured Writer: Margarita Losada Vargas
- Featured Writer: Jennifer Maiden
- Featured Writers 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 Writers:
- PART 1: The Rovers
- Featured Writer: Hanane Aad
- Featured Writer: Maram al-Masri
- Featured Writer: Tanja Bakić
- Featured Writer: Márcio-André de Sousa Haz
- Featured Writer: Lidija Dimkovska
- Featured Writer: Ingrid Fichtner
- Featured Writer: Maarja Kangro
- Featured Writer: Marra PL. Lanot
- Featured Writer: Erik Lindner
- Featured Writer: Barbara Pogačnik
- Featured Writer: George Mario Angel Quintero
- Featured Writer: Remi Raji
- Featured Writer: K. Satchidanandan
- Featured Writer: Sudeep Sen
- Featured Writer: Fahredin Shehu
- Featured Writer: Yury Zavadsky
- Featured Writer: Sonnet Mondal
- Featured Writer: Les Wicks
- PART 2: 2017 Blake Poetry Prize winner, Julie Watts
- PART 3: Featured Writer Darby Hudson
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 Writers:
- PART 1: James W. Wood
- PART 2: Owen Bullock
- PART 3: Willem Tibben
- PART 4: Brendan Bonsack
- PART 5: Andy Jackson
- PART 6: Magdalena Ball
Teasing Threads
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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 Writers:
- PART 1: Contemporary Irish Poetry
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- Contemporary Irish Poetry Index
- Afric McGlinchey
- Paul Casey
- Robyn Rowland
- Adam White
- Jessica Traynor
- Susan Millar DuMars
- David Butler
- Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- John Murphy
- Annemarie Ní Churreáin
- Lizz Murphy
- Breda Wall Ryan
- Patrick Deeley
- Noel Duffy
- Kimberly Campanello
- Karen J. McDonnell
- Alice Kinsella
- Michael J. Whelan
- Mark Roberts
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- PART 2: Juan Garrido Salgado
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
- 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
- Featured Artists Luciano Prisco – curated by Mark Roberts
- Featured Writers
Part 1: Russian and Ukrainian poets with English translations by Tatiana Bonch- Osmolovakaya – curated by Zalehah Turner
- 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
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 20: October- December 2016

Featured
- Featured Artists Engrybirdz – Biographical Note curated by Zalehah Turner
- Featured Writers Part 1: Mohammad Ali Maleki – curated by Zalehah Turner
- Featured Writers Part 2: New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016 and New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016 winners’ and highly commended poems (curated by Zalehah Turner)
- New Shoots Poetry Prizes: the Shortlists
- New Shoots Poetry Prizes: the winners and highly commended
- New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016 winner: ‘Fallen Myrtle Trunk’ by Stuart Cooke
- New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016 highly commended: ‘Anneslea fragrans’ by Magdalena Ball
- New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016 winner: ‘Leaving Wilona’ by John Stokes
- New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016 highly commended: ‘our primitive lives’ by John Bennett
- New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016 special commendation: ‘Tears of Stone’ by Mohammad Ali Maleki
- ‘Anneslea fragrans’ (the spitting plant): Zalehah Turner interviews Magdalena Ball
- ‘our primitive lives’: Zalehah Turner interviews John Bennett
- ‘Leaving Wilona’: Zalehah Turner interviews, John Karl Stokes
Teasing Threads
- Introducing Chris Palazzolo’s Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism
- Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Ecce Laptop
- Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: Ruben Ostlund’s Force Majeure
- Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: On regional writing
- Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: On regional reading
- Teasing Threads – Sundry Film and Literary Criticism: ‘Traitor’ by Stephen Daisley
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- This Is The Review You Are Looking For: Perry Lam reviews ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’
- Room for Reflection: Annette Marfording Reviews Here Where We Live by Cassie Flanagan Willanski
- A Life in Words: Gig Ryan launches Your Scratch Entourage by Kris Hemensley
- “The writer-narrator takes the reader by the hand”: Carmel Bird reviews Napoleon’s Roads by David Brooks
- Emerging Talents of World Cinema: Perry Lam previews the 2017 Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival
- “Echoes, hauntings and play”: Lucy Wilks reviews Bull Days by Tina Giannoukos
- “A cacophony of art and story that ranges from the absurd to the downright terrifying”: Anna Forsyth reviews The Apocalypse Awards by Nathan Curnow
- Subtle, Multiple Implications: John Jenkins Launches The Sly Night Creatures of Desire by Debi Hamilton
- Intensity and Focus: Annette Marfording Reviews Griffith Review 54, Earthly Delights: The Novella Project IV
- Punctuated Into an Exclamation Mark: Lisa Sharp reviews Play, an exhibition by Michelle Le Dain
- Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing: Perry Lam reviews ‘Dr Strange’
- A Slightly Frustrating Novel : Mark Roberts Reviews Black Mountain by Venero Armanno
- That is Movie Magic: Perry Lam reviews “Arrival”
- Glittering Games: Siobhan Hodge reviews “When Happiness Ruled” by Pip & Pop
- Skilful and Fluid: Cath Piltz Reviews The Right Wrong Notes by Nathan Curnow
- A Life Evolving: David O’Sullivan Reviews First Things First, Selected Letters of Kate Llewellyn
- Conceptual Tension viewed through a Cracked Macro Lens: A Structuralist Essay on the Photo + Graphy II: An Ontological Prosthesis Exhibition by James Aksman-Glosz
- An Unflinching & Nuanced Portrayal of Australian Masculinity: Daniel Young Reviews We. Are. Family. by Paul Mitchell
- Mike Ladd launches Garron Publishing’s series, Southern-Land Poets 2016
- Poignant and Necessary: Aidan Coleman Reviews Vanishing Point by Jeri Kroll
- ‘photosinthesis’ by Dorit Goldman
- Almodóvar returns to “the universe of women”: Zalehah Turner reviews Julieta
- Imagined Worlds: Luke Fischer Launches Ghostspeaking by Peter Boyle
- Poets Who are Hurt into Poetry: Geoffrey Lehmann launches Rupture by Susan Varga
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ISSUE 19: July 2016 – September 2016

Featured
- Featured Artist Georgina Pollard – Biographical Note curated by Ashley Haywood
- Featured Writers Part 1: New Shoots – curated by Zalehah Turner
- 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 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 Writer Mario Licón Cabrera
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 Writer: 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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….
- 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
- 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

Postcards from Saturn, is an attempt to recreate the seductive vistas of clouds, sunsets and weather patterns that we see when looking up at the sky or out through the window of a plane. We could normally just take a photograph of the scene, and thousands of us often do, and look at this photograph at a later date only to see that it is a very poor approximation of the awe and imagination inspired by viewing the sky ourselves without a lens. There is a sense of magic and otherworldliness about clouds and what might lie within, or lie beyond the horizon and even what it would be like if we could freely fly through the formations of the clouds. It is this desire to both get closer and to capture it on film that inevitably fails. http://www.karenjackson.biz
- The Petrov Poems land in Melbourne and 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
- 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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