Vale Joan Cahill – David Gilbey pays tribute
Rochford Street Review was sadden to learn of the death of Joan Cahill. David Gilbey, President, Booranga Writers’ Centre, provided the following tribute to Joan.
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Welcome to 2026
After using the last few weeks to tidy up the residue of 2025 and getting ourselves as organised as we can, Rochford Street Review is back for another year of independent publishing in 2026.
An Update on the Sixth Annual Keep Rochford Street Alive Appeal
Thanks to our wonderful readers and supporters we have raised enough to pay our yearly web-hosting, email and storage subscriptions, which means we will be around for at least another 12 months.
Compulsive readability: Bron Bateman Launches ‘Gold Digger’ by Lisa Collyer.
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
Vale Susan Adams
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.
A layered sense of place: Anne Caldwell speed launches ‘Otopos’ by Dominique Hecq
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.
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Susan Austin: 6 Poems from ‘Incandescence’
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 heights of timelessness: Morgan Yasbincek launches ‘The Grand Reopening’ by Toby Davidson
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.
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