Reviews
Something Absolutely Splendid – Robert Adamson on Francis Webb
From the beginning Francis Webb has sought that ‘so tender voyaging line of truth’, single-mindedly, and with a somewhat disconcerting unawareness of the fashionable poetry of his time. He has been concerned with the same tragic problems as Rilke, Eliot, Pasternak and, to mention a contemporary who presents a close parallel, Robert Lowell. I cannot, after long mediation on his verse, place his achievement on a level lower than that suggested by these names.
Text of the original media release appointing Robert Adamson as the first Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology, Sydney
In February 2012 Robert Adamson became the The first Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology, Sydney. This is the text of the media release announcing the appointment.
Introduction to the Robert Adamson Special Issue
This special issue of Rochford Street Review is dedicated to Robert Adamson. It includes work by and about Bob that has appeared in The Review over the years but it is centred around a number of he essays he delivered while he was the The first Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), a position that was funded by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL).
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Vale Antigone Kefala
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Antigone Kefala a week after winning the 2022 Patrick White Award. We were looking to published an account of her award win, instead we are now honouring her life.
Larry Buttrose 3 Poems
Larry Buttrose is something of a fringe dweller in the landscape of Australian poetry. He was co-editor of two poetry magazines in the 1970s, Dharma and Real Poetry, and published poems in literary magazines, journals and anthologies. He branched out into fiction and nonfiction (ghost-writing the book upon which the film Lion was based) and writing for the stage and screen. His Selected Poems was published in 2017 by BryshaWilson Press in Melbourne.
The cynical and the hopeful: Deirdre Hines reviews ‘The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot’ by Mick Corrigan
There is something about the name a poet chooses to title their collection that will either attract or repel a reader. Most poets nowadays opt for a short and catchy title, something that doesn’t give away too much.Something that proclaims eruditon and an understanding of the zeitgeist. Not to do so is risky, if one wnats to court favour and aplomb. Mick Corrigan goes against the current grain by choosing The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot as title for his debut.
Finding Jesse of Newnes – an industrial ghost town on unceded Wiradjuri and Dharug lands: an exhibition by Linda Adair.
Finding Jesse of Newnes – an industrial ghost town on unceded Wiradjuri and Dharug lands by Linda Adair. An exhibition at the Darlington Installation Project (DIP), in association with intelligent animal, from 19 September 2022 to 16.October 2022.
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