A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is a widely published and award-winning Indian–Australian poet and visual artist. She has received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations, and her work has appeared in Cordite, Poetry Sydney, Black Bough Poetry (UK), and other international journals.
This is a jewel of a collection, full of elemental images and resonant engagement with country, history and human feeling.
Kedumba Gallery Poetry Reading, Wentworth Falls, Sunday 1 March.
Lisa Collyer is an author of two poetry collections, Gold Digger (2025) and How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up (2023) (the latter being short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award), and both published with Life Before Man Books.
Michael J. Leach’s poetry collection, Chords in the Soundscapes, reads as a love song to generations within a changing world, rooted in personal experience.
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of poet and activist Lionel Fogarty. The following tribute was posted by The Yugambeh Nation on their social media feed. It is reproduced with permission.
Jean O’Brien’s 6th and latest collection is Stars Burn Regardless (Salmon Poetry) 2022. She is an award winning poet and was poet in residence in September/ October 2022 in the Centre Cultural Irelandais in Paris and holds a Patrick Kavanagh fellowship.
Eileen Sheehan is from the Southwest of Ireland. One of the poems from her most recent collection, The Narrow Way of Souls (Salmon Poetry), featured on the Leaving Certificate English Syllabus. Anthology publications include Blackjack, with translations by Oana Lungu (editors Dorina Șișu and Viorel Ploeșteanu / Singur Publishing); Best Loved Poems: Favourite Poems from the South of Ireland (editor Gabriel Fitzmaurice with photographs by John Reidy/ Curragh Press) and The Deep Heart’s Core: Irish Poets Revisit a Touchstone Poem (editors Eugene O’Connell & Pat Boran/ Dedalus Press).
Rachael Stanley’s poems have most recently been published in Live Encounters, Flare and Drawn to the light press. She was commended twice in the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Competition in 2019 and 2022. Her debut collection Back to Infinity was published by Revival Press, Limerick in May 2024. She lives in Dublin.
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