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Imbolg the time of the year associated with Brigid marks the end of winter in Ireland occurring as it does, midway between the winter Solstice and Spring equinox. As an Irish Australian feminist artistic Collective, the Prankqueans enjoy marking significant events in the Celtic calendar such as Imbolg that are strongly associated with the feminine.
Find out about the events making up the 2026 Brigid the Bard Festival
T.A.R. Wallace (he/his) is a yoga therapist and table tennis coach living on Dja Dja Wurrung country, Australia. His poems have been published in The Brussels Review, Conduit, Big Score Lit, The Poetry Lighthouse, Meanjin, Heat, Australian Poetry Journal, and others. He won the Lane Cove Literary Awards Poetry Prize 2023.
Susan Hawthorne is a poet, novelist and publisher who lives and works on Djiru Country in Far North Queensland. Her most recent books are the novel Dark Matters and the poetry collection The Sacking of the Muses. Her book Cow was shortlisted for the Audre Lorde Poetry Prize and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize.
I can feel Karen’s notions swirl about in all her poems. Each stanza is like a stork landing a bag of words to shape and make a coherent form from a dream or a thought. I like how each poem makes sense of a thought and brings it to life.
In reading Lisa Collyer’s poetry collection, Gold Digger, I was struck by how she writes poems that are battle-line hardy, staunchly feminist, with a working-class sensibility and a gendered understanding of both out-of-home work and the domestic sphere
The editors of Rochford Street Review were sadden to learn of the death of poet Susan Adams on Monday 7 December. The day before her partner, Les Wicks, had read some of her poems at the launch of Te Purere/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets.
Susan Austin is a poet, eco-socialist activist and mental health occupational therapist living in Nipaluna, Hobart. Her poetry collections Undertow and Incandescence and verse novel Dancing with Empty Prams were published by Walleah Press. Dancing with Empty Prams was longlisted in the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards. Susan won the FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize in 2023 and 2021 and was Commended in the national Woorilla Poetry Prize.
The title taps us all at those points during the pandemic and in life where, after losing the world as we know it, we walked through all that is gone.
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