Ciarán O’Rourke: 5 Poems
Ciarán O’Rourke is a poet from Dublin. His second collection, Phantom Gang, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2023. His third collection is forthcoming from The Irish Pages Press.
Reviews
Love of the small, beautiful details: Jane Frank launches ‘Small Epiphanies’ by David Terelinck
I’ve been savouring Small Epiphanies over the last few weeks. Savouring is the perfect word because these poems are intricately layered with sensual detail and richly textured.
A wild ride: Mike Ladd reviews ‘Tadpoems 400 Shorts’ by Tug Dumbly
As Rae Desmond Jones said in his introduction to The Selected Your Friendly Fascist, “Poetry can tend to sombre pomposity, or the self-consciously polite.” Tug Dumbly is certainly not that.
A rich, hybrid environment. Judith Beveridge talks to Jean Kent and Martin Kent about ‘Paris Light’
I think this is a marvellous and engrossing publication which so beautifully showcases how the two art forms complement and enhance each other – there haven’t been too many collaborations between differing artists in Australian poetry
Helen Swain: 5 Poems from ‘Calibrating Home’
Helen Swain lives and works in lutrawita/Tasmania on the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington. Helen has been a performer in Theatre in Education, worked in Community Theatre, was a High School English teacher and for many years taught English as Another Language with new Migrant and Refugee arrivals. She is currently a Poet in Residence with Inscape Arts working in the public health sector. Celebrating Home (Five Islands Press) is her third book of poetry.
Jennifer Harrison: 6 Poems
Jennifer Harrison has written eight books of poetry, most recently Anywhy (Black Pepper 2018). She is Chair of the World Psychiatry Association’s Section for Art and Psychiatry and received the 2012 Christopher Brennan Award for sustained contribution to Australian poetry. Recent work has appeared in Australian Book Review 2022, Best of Australian Poems 2022, Australian Poetry Journal 2023, Rabbit 2022, The Hyacinth Review 2023 (France), Unusual Work 2023 and The Fourth River 2023 (USA).
In the paddock of your own dreams: Ali Whitelock reviews ‘Snail Mail Cursive’ by James Walton
As a Scot, who frequently aches to have the cockles of her cold Scottish heart warmed, the poems in Snail Mail Cursive have warmed them in the most primordial of ways.
The necessity for resisting complacency: Gina Mercer launches ‘Calibrating Home’ by Helen Swain
Here is a book. It is Helen’s book. It is a very good book. When you get one – it will give you delight. And comfort. And gentle chortles. The occasional, necessary, jolt. And sighs of deep pleasure.
Issue 40 – 2024:2 has been archived
We have archived Issue 40 of Rochford Street Review, and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011 at our previous issues page.
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