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In reading Lisa Collyer’s poetry collection, Gold Digger, I was struck by how she writes poems that are battle-line hardy, staunchly feminist, with a working-class sensibility and a gendered understanding of both out-of-home work and the domestic sphere
The editors of Rochford Street Review were sadden to learn of the death of poet Susan Adams on Monday 7 December. The day before her partner, Les Wicks, had read some of her poems at the launch of Te Purere/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets.
Otopos by Dominique Hecq was launched in the UK by y Anne Caldwell as part of the Speed dating launch at the Ekphrasis Symposium organised by Oz Hardwick and Cassandra Atherton at Leeds Trinity University, UK on July 6.
Susan Austin is a poet, eco-socialist activist and mental health occupational therapist living in Nipaluna, Hobart. Her poetry collections Undertow and Incandescence and verse novel Dancing with Empty Prams were published by Walleah Press. Dancing with Empty Prams was longlisted in the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards. Susan won the FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize in 2023 and 2021 and was Commended in the national Woorilla Poetry Prize.
The title taps us all at those points during the pandemic and in life where, after losing the world as we know it, we walked through all that is gone.
Stephen Smithyman is the son of New Zealand poets, Kendrick Smithyman and Mary Stanley. He has lived and worked in Naarm/Melbourne for many years and is now retired there. A late developer, he has published two books of poetry and one of short stories, in recent years – all with Ginninderra Press, Adelaide. ‘Uluru’ is from his second book of poetry, ‘Halfway and Back’.
E Wen Wong (Canberra) moved from Ōtautahi to Ngunnawal and Ngambri Land in 2022. Most recently, her poems have appeared in A Clear Dawn, Ko Aotearoa Tatou, No Other Place to Stand, and Landfall. E Wen is currently studying law and science at the Australian National University.
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