Luke Morgan: 5 Poems
Luke Morgan is a poet from Galway, Ireland. His third collection Blood Atlas is new from Arlen House in 2025. He is the recipient of the 29th Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award.
Reviews
John Jenkins: Windy, Moonlit Night
John Jenkins is a widely travelled writer living on Melbourne’s semi-rural fringe, near the Yarra Valley. His most recent books are Poems Far and Wide, Puncher and Wattmann, 2019; a collection of self-illustrated nonsense poems, Busybird Publishing, 2021; A Double Act, poems co-written with Ken Bolton, Puncher and Wattmann, 2022; The Sky Inside Us, Ginninderra Press, 2022.
A common humanity: Michael Witts reviews ‘Steep Curve’ by Robyn Rowland
This is a collection brimming with life, love and humour. These poems assert their independence while acknowledging their cohesion. They are parts of a greater whole.
Timothy Loveday: Holiday
Tim Loveday is a poet, writer, educator and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation, rurality and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize and the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Fierce and poignant: John Bennett launches ‘Stranded’ by Bronwyn Rodden
Bronwyn’s poems are alive, they talk to us. Often as quiet presences that draw us into a life from childhood on. She left home early. Her poems can be fierce and poignant regarding family dynamics.
Beatriz Copello: 3 Poems from ‘The Book of Jeremiah’
Dr Beatriz Copello is a well-known reviewer, writer and poet, she is also known for her sense of humour.
Launch of ‘Life Itself’ by Kevin Higgins – Galway, Ireland April 27 2025
Kevin Higgins was a great friend of Rochford Street Review. We would love to be able to make this launch but will need to content ourselves with reading the book once launched. If you are anywhere near Galway make sure you are there!
A patient reverence for the continuity of time: Lyn Chatham reviews ‘The Seal Woman’ by Beverley Farmer
The Seal Woman is a novel with a clear narrative arc, albeit a slow-moving one, but overwhelmingly it is a patient reverence for the continuity of time, rhythm of the seasons, the oceans and, of course, its living creatures.
Carol Archer: Biographical Statement
Carol Archer lives on Worimi land near Bulahdelah in the Myall Lakes region of NSW. Her work spans drawing, painting and printmaking and explores her relationship with trees and forests. Such places are especially precious for an artist who spent many years based in the hyper-urban city of Hong Kong.
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