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Tim Loveday is a poet, writer, educator and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation, rurality and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize and the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Bronwyn’s poems are alive, they talk to us. Often as quiet presences that draw us into a life from childhood on. She left home early. Her poems can be fierce and poignant regarding family dynamics.
Dr Beatriz Copello is a well-known reviewer, writer and poet, she is also known for her sense of humour.
Kevin Higgins was a great friend of Rochford Street Review. We would love to be able to make this launch but will need to content ourselves with reading the book once launched. If you are anywhere near Galway make sure you are there!
Bronwyn Rodden’s writing is published in literary journals and anthologies in Australia, the UK and the USA. She holds an MA Writing (UTS), was awarded an Emerging Writer Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and a residency at the Writers Cottage, Bundanon. Her most recent collection, Stranded, was published by Flying Islands Press 2024.
Thanks to the much-appreciated revival of 5 Islands Press, led by poets Mark Tredinnick and Steve Meyrick, we now have Steep Curve. Robyn is meticulous not only about the writing itself, but she is scrupulous about the publication of her poetry. She takes the work of publication seriously and insists on it being perfectly presented on the page. So her books are also beautiful objects.
Her assuredness shines through in the extraordinary craft of the poetry—the handling of line, image, enjambment, phrasing, not to mention her voice. But it’s also there in the book’s subject matter, which might be regarded as somewhat remarkable in today’s landscape for its indifference towards the faddish. What I mean to say is that Robyn’s poetry delves, in its assured way, into universal phenomena like aging, family, love, grief, which are explored, of course, from her own deeply personal perspective.
Rose van Son is a West Australian poet and writer. She has been published in various journals and anthologies including Cordite, Rabbit, Westerly, ACU, Oystercatcher One, Grieve, and Glasgow Review of Books. Her collections include Cloak of Letters, Nature’s Warehouse (Birds in focus) and from the open doorway (haiku).
There is much to read and enjoy in Some Dualities, the poems are often witty, nearly always insightful and often honestly personal.
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