Mountain water cave: Gary Shinfield Artist Statement
Mountain, water and cave refer to three places where Gary Shinfield’s recent work has been made – the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast, and the Grampians.
Reviews
Poetry of place, and travels of the heart: Sarah St Vincent Welch launches ‘Bitumen Psalms’ by Lizz Murphy
A new confidence in expressive possibilities: Lucy Dougan launches ‘The Hum Hearers’ by Shey Marque
Shey has a distinguished track-record of short-listings and publications. The Hum Hearers was short-listed for the Dorothy Hewett Award, individual poems have been noticed in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Woorilla Poetry Prize and the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, among others.
Timothy Loveday: 2 Poems
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.
‘Life Itself’ by Kevin Higgins: An introduction by Susan Millar DuMars
We met because of poems; I submitted three to The Burning Bush, a journal Kevin was starting with Mike Begnal, at the very start of 1999. Our love affair was bookended by January verse.
Lighthouse Shines Anew: Liana Joy Christensen reviews ‘Oystercatcher One’
Since its founding in 1986 by Ron Pretty, Five Islands Press has been a lighthouse for poets and readers sailing in the variable waters of Australian poetry.
Gary Shinfield: Biographical Statement
Gary Shinfield is an Australian artist specializing in relief printmaking and mixed media. He graduated with a Master’s degree in 2004 and has exhibited widely. His works explore place through intuitive mark making, featuring large scale, unframed pieces influenced by site-specific locations.
Issue 41 – 2025:1 has been archived
We have archived Issue 41 of Rochford Street Review. it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011 under Previous Issues.
‘The Office of Literary Endeavours’ the new collection by Mark Roberts, Sydney launch this Sunday – 25 May
Mark Roberts (co-editor of Rochford Street Review) and 5 Islands Press invite you to the Sydney Launch of ‘The Office of Literary Endeavours’ To be launched by Les Wicks with Angela Stretch as your MC
on Sunday 25 May 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, Benledi House, 186 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
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