Rochford Street Review was saddened to hear of the death of Eric Beach during the week. We will look to publish a full tribute to Eric in the coming weeks but, as an immediate tribute, we are republishing Etic’s poems, as selected by Rae Desmond Jones, which appeared in The Selected Your Friendly Fascist, Rochford Press, 2012.

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Yasmine Gooneratne was a poet, a writer of short stories and novels, and a literary critic, editor and reviewer. Born in Sri Lanka in 1935, while the country was still known as ‘Ceylon’, she was educated at Bishops College School for Girls and the University of Peradeniya, where she was a dedicated student of English literature.

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