‘The Baroness’: from ‘Everyone on Mars: stories from the Red Shift’ by Larry Buttrose

by Admin on August 5, 2023August 5, 2023

The Baroness is from a collection of twelve stories, with the working title of Everyone on Mars: stories from the Red Shift. In these stories set in the near future, despite all obstacles humanity has colonised Mars, largely for its minerals as foreseen by previous generations of writers, such as the great Philip K. Dick. The collection is an imagining of the impact — psychological, interpersonal, existential — of our colonisation.

Enticing snippets of narrative: Mark O’Flynn reviews ‘The Detective’s Chair’ by Anne M Carson

by Admin on July 30, 2023August 5, 2023

Detective fiction is hardly a traditional subject for poetry, yet there is clearly a perennial fascination with crime and crime solving. The Detective’s Chair exploits the conceit that the 32 detectives presented here do most of their reflecting, cogitating, puzzling, meditating and nutting-out in the embrace of a favourite chair.

Having fun with poetry: Anne Kellas interviews John Tranter, Hobart 1990.

by Admin on July 30, 2023July 30, 2023

In the light of the sad news of John Tranter’s death on 21 April 2023, I have resurrected the full text of the interview I conducted with him in 1990 on one of his visits to Tasmania – probably for one of the wonderful writers festivals organised by what was then the Tasmanian Writers Union. At the time, he was staying as the TWU’s guest in their Writers Cottage in Battery Point, with its sunny views of Salamanca and the docks beyond.

Featured Artist Linda Swinfield: Artist Statement

by Admin on July 29, 2023July 30, 2023

Contemporary printmaking is the spine of my artmaking processes. My art practice is manifold and shifting through personal narratives. I incorporate analog photography, drawing and painting materials into the layers of the print process.

Featured Artist Linda Swinfield – Biographical Statement

by Admin on July 29, 2023July 30, 2023

Linda Swinfield’s art practice began in 1979 when she majored in black and white photography and experimental painting at Meadowbank TAFE in Sydney.

Issue 36 – 2023:1 has been archived

by Admin on July 27, 2023July 27, 2023

We have archived Issue 36 of Rochford Street Review and it is now available, along the all other issues stretching back to 2011, at https://rochfordstreetreview.com/previous-issues/

Making it clear: Mark Mahemoff reviews ‘Our Ways On Earth’ by Peter Bakowski

by Admin on July 23, 2023July 24, 2023

As it says on the back of his latest book, Our Ways on Earth, “His key aims as a poet remain—to write as clearly as possible and to make his next poem different from the last.”

Creative Collaboration: Margaret O’Brien launches ‘Some Days the Bird’ by Anne Casey and Heather Bourbeau

by Admin on July 23, 2023July 23, 2023

The collection, Some Days the Bird, is the result of Anne and Heather’s pandemic collaboration across the globe. Anne and Heather wrote poems to each other weekly during 2021, the second year of the pandemic, to and from opposite hemispheres and seasons. When I say wrote, I mean handwritten, posted, by snail mail.

Linda Adair talks poetry, colonisation and uncovering hidden histories with Tina Giannoukos.

by Admin on July 22, 2023July 22, 2023

A poet, publisher of Rochford Press and co-editor of Rochford Street Review, as well as an emerging artist, Linda Adair grew up on Dharug country without knowing whose land she stood on. She now lives and works on Dharug and Gundungarra lands in the Blue Mountains, Australia, and pays her respect to the Traditional Custodians of the unceded Country which always was, and always will, be Aboriginal land. Her debut poetry collection, The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering, was published in 2020 by Melbourne Poets Union.