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14/10/2025

Rochford Street Review Issue 43. Vale Moya Costello.

Rochford Street Review was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of writer, editor, academic and wine critic Moya Costello.

Rochford Street Review was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of writer, editor, academic and wine critic Moya Costello.

13/10/2025

Rochford Street Review. Lucie Thorne is the featured artist for Issue 43. The issue will start loading over the coming days,

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13/10/2025

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08/10/2025

Rochford Street Review Issue 42. 2025 Tasmanian Poetry Festival

The Tasmanian Poetry Festival was founded in 1985 by poet and activist Tim Thorne. Thorne’s contribution to poetry in Tasmania and beyond is remembered each year by the awarding of the Tim Thorne Poetry Prize.

The Tasmanian Poetry Festival was founded in 1985 by poet and activist Tim Thorne. Thorne’s contribution to poetry in Tasmania and beyond is remembered each year by the awarding of the Tim Th…

08/10/2025

Rochford Street Review is looking for reviewers for this book. Contact us at https://rochfordstreetreview.com/about-rochford-street-review/

STILL BLACK WATER - the new poetry collection by Simeon Kronenberg - just delivered from our printers Pegasus Media+Logistics. Buy your copy on line today at pittstreetpoetry.com

03/10/2025

Rochford Street Review is looking for a reviewer for Eunice Andrada new collection KONTRA. If you are interested get in contact

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‘KONTRA is, in many ways, a surgical operation on lineage, on language, on desire. This project engages the canon I grew up with – the kontrabida as she exists in Filipino media and her cultural equivalents across the world: women punished for wanting.’

Eunice Andrada reflects on her new collection KONTRA, which casts a female gaze on the kontrabida – a Filipina soap opera villain stuck in a rise-and-fall cycle.

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01/10/2025

Rochford Street Review Issue 42: Kate Newmann: 3 Poems

Kate Newmann is an Irish poet. She read at the 25th Medellin International Poetry Festival, Colombia, and at the Himalayan Echoes Festival in Nainital, India. She has been involved in many projects, including creative writing with student teachers at a summer camp in Vyborg, Russia, and with the Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma, USA. She has published five collections of poetry.

Kate Newmann is an Irish poet. She read at the 25th Medellin International Poetry Festival, Colombia, and at the Himalayan Echoes Festival in Nainital, India. She has been involved in many projects…

30/09/2025

David Brooks and Louise Wakeling raise the bar for nature on World Animal Day at Katoomba

Raising the Bar for Nature on World Animal Day, Sat, 4 Oct, 6pm – 9pm AEST at the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Centre, 33-39 Acacia St, Katoomba NSW 2780. Tickets $15

Raising the Bar for Nature on World Animal Day, Sat, 4 Oct, 6pm – 9pm AEST at the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Centre, 33-39 Acacia St, Katoomba NSW 2780. Tickets $15 from Humantix Local p…

29/09/2025

Rochford Street Review Issue 42. Breath-taking sentience: Cathal Ó Searcaigh introduces Kate Newmann at the Errigal Arts Event, Donegal, Ireland

Her poetry is elegiac, meditative and grave. She is also gifted with the mystic’s intuitive insights. Her series of long poems in 'I Am A Horse, attests to this rare flair and power.

With her first collection, The Blind Woman in the Blue House, Kate Newmann made her presence felt in Irish poetry. Since then she is a commanding voice, a poet who writes about the tumults of the h…

29/09/2025

Rochford Street Review Issue 42. The harrowing task of truth telling: Judith Nangala Crispin reviews ‘The Nightmare Sequence’ by Omar Sakr and artist Safdar Ahmed

"The Nightmare Sequence is a profound and deeply moving act of truth-telling created by poet Omar Sakr and artist Safdar Ahmed. It is bravely published by University of Queensland Press, in an almost unprecedented period of censorship in Australia’s artistic and literary scene."

The Nightmare Sequence is a profound and deeply moving act of truth-telling created by poet Omar Sakr and artist Safdar Ahmed. It is bravely published by University of Queensland Press, in an almos…

27/09/2025

Rochford Street Review Issue 42. Upending common dichotomies: Leonie Bingham reviews ‘Parallax’ by Robin Morgan.

"Parallax is not an easy read, and demands re-reading, which is perhaps its intention. Morgan explores and upends common dichotomies which, to the reader, are inherently familiar: chaos/order, sanity/insanity, religion/science and freedom/captivity. She eloquently unpacks the paradoxes that lie within each."

Parallax is not an easy read, and demands re-reading, which is perhaps its intention. Morgan explores and upends common dichotomies which, to the reader, are inherently familiar: chaos/ order, sani…