Welcome to the Rochford Street Review eBook portal. You will find here a growing collection of literary ‘flip books’ for your online reading pleasure. These will range from out of print small press titles to new writing by commissioned writers.

All of the titles will be available to read for paid subscribers of the Review. This is to help cover the cost of producing and maintaining the eBooks and to commission new work. Each month one book will be available for free access.

One aspect we would like to encourage is to ensure that important out of print titles are made available to access. To this end we are particularly interesting in hearing from poets and writers who have titles which are no longer available to buy but which they would like to be still be available to read. We hope to be able to pay at least a small amount to host these titles (depending on the level of subscriptions) and, of course, full rights would remain with the author. 

The free content for October 2026 is Cactus by Stevi-Lee Alver, Rochford Press 2016

In 2016 Stevi-Lee Alver was based in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, she now lives in Brazi. Stevi-Lee Alver has had her fiction, poetry, and reviews published across Australia and the United States. In 2014, while studying at the University of Massachusetts, she received the Class of 1940 Creative Writing Award for poetry. She was one of the winners of the 2014 Questions Writing Prize for her short-story ‘Phoenix’. She received the 2015 Southern Cross University award for Excellence in The Arts. Cactus is her first book.

Cactus Beach: famous for its left and right hand breaks. Two women soak up sea, desert, sun and sensuality in this spare meditation on love………………………..–Susan Hawthorne

 Cactus is a sensate invocation for entanglement in our biosphere-in-delicate-balance. Via her own fine judgement, emerging writer Stevi-Lee Alver potentiates the prose poem, making a ‘surfie chick’ narrative into a deeply affecting bel canto. ………………………..– Moya Costello

Cactus features a cover illustration by Narelle Adair Coxhead who also assisted with the book design

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If you are a Paid Subscriber to the Review you can access the Subscriber only eBook portal below:

Subscriber eBook Library

Current titles available include:

• The Selected Your Friendly Fascist, edited by Rae Desmond Jones, Rochford Press, 2012.
• Kynetonbury Tales or Dog Days by Pete Spence, Rochford Press.
• El Asombrado by Les Wicks, Rochford Press 2015
• P76 Issue 1 (The First Issue), Rochford Stret Press 1983
• P76 Issue 6 (The Lost Issue), Rochford Press 2012
• South by Michael Witts, Makar Press, 1978

You will need to be a paid subscriber or supporter of Rochford Street Review to access the main eBook portal. If you are not already a paid supporter of the Review you can subscribe below.

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