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Rochford Street Review is an on-line journal reviewing new Australian writing – with an emphasis on poetry and small press publications. While Rochford Street Review is published quarterly, reviews will be uploaded to the site as they are received. We will also attempt to cover as many publications (both traditional and on-line) as we can.
15/11/2024
Rochford Street Review Issue 40. Words of wonder, curiosity and awe: Angela Costi launches ‘Stars Like Salt’ by Cathy Altmann.
"I am happy to announce the triumphant arrival of Cathy Altmann’s third book of poetry. Triumphant because despite the public and personal exhaustion of COVID, with its insistence on longevity, Cathy birthed, gathered and salvaged thirty-nine poems, turning them into a collection of attentive and intuitive distillations for our times."
I am happy to announce the triumphant arrival of Cathy Altmann’s third book of poetry. Triumphant because despite the public and personal exhaustion of COVID, with its insistence on longevity, Cath…
15/11/2024
Our fundraising event, Kalliope X Speaks, is happening this Sunday! Join us at Capers at 5pm on November the 17th for readings and live music from a very impressive line-up of KX founders, contributors and friends. Further details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/529615066692117?ref=newsfeed
The Waanyi writer, who won the Miles Franklin award and Stella prize this year for her novel Praiseworthy, has been recognised for her body of work and contribution to Australian culture
11/11/2024
Rochford Street Review Issue 40. Audrey Molloy: 3 Poems.
Audrey Molloy grew up in Ireland and has lived in Sydney since 1998. Her debut collection, The Important Things (The Gallery Press, 2021), won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. The Blue Cocktail was published by The Gallery Press and Pitt Street Poetry in 2023. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work has appeared in Best of Australian Poems, Island, The London Magazine, and Poetry Ireland Review.
Audrey Molloy grew up in Ireland and has lived in Sydney since 1998. Her debut collection, The Important Things (The Gallery Press, 2021), won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Seamu…
08/11/2024
Vale Eric Beach
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.
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 Eric’s poems, as selected by Rae Desmond Jones, which appeared in The Selected Your Friendly Fascist, Rochford Press, 2012.
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 repub…
08/11/2024
Rochford Street Review Issue 40. Observations of everything: Marcelle Freiman launches Margaret Bradstock’s ‘Alchemy of the Sun’
The overall impact of reading Bradstock’s deft, mature work is of a poetic finesse and clarity in poems engaging with the overriding importance of time – as different manifestations of time – and of place and exploration.
The overall impact of reading Bradstock’s deft, mature work is of a poetic finesse and clarity in poems engaging with the overriding importance of time – as different manifestations of time – and o…
08/11/2024
Rochford Street Review Issue 40 A significant voice in Australian poetry: Louise Wakeling on Margaret Bradstock’s new poetry collection ‘Alchemy of the Sun’
Welcome, everyone, to the launch of Margaret Bradstock’s latest and ninth poetry collection Alchemy of the Sun, published by David Musgrave of Puncher & Wattmann.
Margaret is a significant voice in Australian poetry, one who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. Some of her recent poems have been used as libretti in Luke Styles’ contemporary…
05/11/2024
Rochford Street Review Issue 40. A sense of arrival: Claire Gaskin reviews ‘Coming to nothing’ by Morgan Yasbincek.
For Morgan Yasbincek poetry is a tool for survival of living agency and a means of deep enquiry into the foundational.
As Audrey Lorde writes, ‘Poetry is not a Luxury’, for Morgan Yasbincek poetry is a tool for survival of living agency and a means of deep enquiry into the foundational.
04/11/2024
Rochford Street Review Issue 40: Normal transmission has been restored.
With P76 published and with different versions out in both the physical and virtual world, we can now return to the backlog of work waiting for Rochford Street Review. Issue 40 will continue through to the end of the year and Issue 41 will commence in January 2025.
With P76 published and with different versions out in both the physical and virtual world, we can now return to the backlog of work waiting for Rochford Street Review. Issue 40 will continue throug…
03/11/2024
Rochford Street Review Issue 40
Highlights from the Melbourne launch of P76 issue 9: Poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora/ odyssey
P76 issue 9: Poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora/ odyssey was launched as part of the 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival on Tuesday evening 27 August 2024 at Bergy Bandroom, Brunswick, Victoria.
Here we feature some of the images and recordings from the night, together with links to work appearing in the on-line edition of the journal.
P76 issue 9: Poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora/ odyssey was launched as part of the 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival on Tuesday evening 27 August 2024 at Bergy Bandroom, Brunswick, Victoria.
YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO a reading of EKPHRASTIC POETRY+ afternoon tea and a short Open Mike. Date: Sunday 6th October, 2024 at 2.30 pm. Venue: The Kedumba Gallery, the old Principal’s cottage, 3 Matcham Avenue, Wentworth Falls. Entry: By donation
John Watson
Brenda Saunders
Phillip Hall
Margaret Bradstock
Mark O’Flynn
Kate Maxwell
Philip Hammiel
Craig Billingham
Louise Wakeling
YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO a reading of EKPHRASTIC POETRY+ afternoon tea and a short Open Mike. Date: Sunday 6th October, 2024 at 2.30 pm. Venue: The Kedumba Gallery, the old Principal’s cottage, 3 …
Mark Roberts is a writer, critic and publisher living on unceded Darug and Gundungurra land. He is co-editor, along with Linda Adair, of Rochford Street Review. His last poetry collection, Concrete Flamingos, was published by Island Press in 2016. His next collection, The Office of Literary Endeavours, will be published by 5 Islands Press in 2025.
Mark Roberts is a writer, critic and publisher living on unceded Darug and Gundungurra land. He is co-editor, along with Linda Adair, of Rochford Street Review. His last poetry collection, Concrete…
Linda Adair is a poet and a publisher of Rochford Press, and co-editor of Rochford Street Review and a (re)emerging artist. Her Irish ancestors arrived at Port Jackson from the early to mid 1800s to escape the English occupation of Eire and then the food shortage which was weaponised and rebranded as the Great Irish Famine. Born on Darug Land in the era of ‘The Great Australian Silence’ about what was really occurred during colonisation, Adair writes about women and men marginalised by history in her poems.
Linda Adair is a poet and a publisher of Rochford Press, and co-editor of Rochford Street Review and a (re)emerging artist.
Angela Costi is known as Αγγελικη Κωστη among the Cypriot diaspora, which is her heritage and ancestry. She lives on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung unceded land. She is the author of five poetry collections. Her most recent chapbook is Adversarial Practice, Cordite Poetry Review, 2024.
Angela Costi is known as Αγγελικη Κωστη among the Cypriot diaspora, which is her heritage and ancestry. She lives on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung unceded land. She is the author of five poetry collection…
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Rochford Press is one of the smallest Australian literary presses having been established by Mark Roberts in 1983 as a vehicle to publish 7 issues of P76 Magazine. The press has always operated independent of any government funding, and has continued to contribute to the small press poetry scene of this country. Rochford Press is committed to publishing creative and critical writing which pushes boundaries and stands out from the everyday. It is run by Mark Roberts and Linda Adair and is based in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
Since 2011 to the present time, we have published 26 issues of the online critical journal Rochford Street Review as well as producing several chapbooks and books including: Robbie Coburn’s first collection Before Bone & Viscera, Stevi-Lee Alvers Cactus and The Selected Your Friendly Fascist based on the cult poetry magazine established by Rae Desmond Jones and John Edwards in the 1970s.
2019 has seen resurgence of energy in Rochford Press as Linda Adair has driven the publishing program. Within the first half of 2019 the press has edited, produced, and launched the following three books:
The End of the Line by Rae Desmond Jones
When I was Clandestine by Juan Garrido Salgado
Open by Sarah St Vincent Welch
Additionally we promoted them by arranging launches and readings around the country ranging from venues such as The Exodus Foundation, Shop Gallery and Ashfield Library in Sydney, to the Press Bookhouse as part of the Newcastle Writers Festival, That Poetry Thing at Smiths Alternative in Canberra, The Dan O’Connell in Melbourne, a nightclub in Adelaide and Voicebox in Perth.
Most recently Rochford Street Review has partnered with creatives in the Blue Mountains to promote exhibitions by MAPBM and has produced a website for Vivienne Dadour’s exhibition Resilience in Times of Adversity: Blue Mountains responses to World War II.
More chapbooks will be coming in the next 6 months including from Blue Mountains writers and other regional areas.
