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Rochford Street Review Issue 43. ‘One-Time Code’: A poem by S.C. Flynn

S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are The Colour of Extinction (October 2024) and An Ocean Called Hope (May 2025).

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‘One-Time Code’: A poem by S.C. Flynn
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are The Colour of Extinction (Renard Press, October 2024) and An Ocean Called Hope (Downing…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Rochford Street Review. Chucking Out. Short fiction by Fionnbharr Rodgers.

Fionnbharr Rodgers is an Irish historian and poet who has had work published in History Ireland, Ireland’s Own, The Irish Times, Northern Slant, A New Ulster & Blackbird....

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Chucking Out. Short fiction by Fionnbharr Rodgers
Fionnbharr Rodgers is an Irish historian and poet who has had work published in History Ireland, Ireland’s Own, The Irish Times, Northern Slant, A New Ulster, Blackbird, Blackbox Manifold, and Ston…
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November 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Vale Robert Gray - Mark Mahemoff remembers Robert Gray (1945-2025).

"His perfectionism, humanity and modesty have left an indelible mark on me. I will miss you, Robert."

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Vale Robert Gray
Mark Mahemoff remembers Robert Gray (1945-2025).
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November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Get rid of arts funding! Ian Miliss argues there is a proven better solution

This essay provides a comprehensive analysis of Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) scheme, a groundbreaking initiative that has garnered significant international attention.

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Get rid of arts funding! Ian Miliss argues there is a proven better solution
The concept of a basic income, a regular and unconditional payment to individuals, has been a subject of debate for decades. In recent years, a specific application of this idea has gained traction…
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November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
From Mark Robert's substack archive Towards a New Diversity: Martin Johnston and the New Australian Poetry. First Published in 'Island' No 58, Autumn 1994.

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From the archives 1994. Towards a New Diversity: Martin Johnston and the New Australian Poetry
First published in 'Island 58', Autumn 1994.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
From the archives 1985. Breaking Through the Silence: NO REGRETS 3. First published in Tribune – Summer Reading Issue (no 2406) 11 December 1985.

No Regrets 3: An Anthology of the Sydney Women Writing Workshop. Published by the No Regrets Group. 1985.

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From the archives 1985. Breaking Through the Silence: NO REGRETS 3
First published in Tribune – Summer Reading Issue (no 2406) 11 December 1985.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This article contains images and references to an Aboriginal person who has died.

From the archives 1985 - Confronting Racism on Film – Dennis O’Rourke’s ‘Couldn’t Be Fairer’ (1985)

First published in Tribune – Summer Reading Issue (2406), 11/12/1985.

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Film Review from the archives 1985 - Confronting Racism on Film – Dennis O’Rourke’s ‘Couldn’t Be Fairer’ (1985)
Note: This article contains images and references to an Aboriginal person who has died. First published in Tribune – Summer Reading Issue (no 2406), 11 December 1985.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
From the archives 2016. Mark Roberts considers ‘Headwaters’ by Anthony Lawrence.

"Often the imagery and strength of Anthony’s poems can hide the beauty of the poem’s structure..."

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From the archives Mark Roberts considers ‘Headwaters’ by Anthony Lawrence
Based on Mark Roberts launch speech for Headwaters by Anthony Lawrence at the 2016 Newcastle Writers Festival. First published in a slightly different form Rochford Street Review, Issue 18 April 2016
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November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
From the Printed Shadows' archives 1994 - Tumbling and Balancing – Susan Johnson’s 'A Big Life'. First published in 'Overland' 135, Winter 1994.

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From the archives 1994, Tumbling and Balancing – Susan Johnson’s A Big Life
First published in 'Overland' 135, Winter 1994.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
From the archives 1987. Finola Moorhead 'Remember the Tarantella'. First Published in P76 Issue 5, 1991.

"Remember the Tarantella is a great, swirling novel. Like the dance from which it takes its name ..."

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From the archives 1987. Finola Moorhead 'Remember the Tarantella'
First Published in P76 Issue 5, 1991
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November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
From the archives 1988. The Ultimate Commitment – Mark Roberts reviews Michael Dransfield: 'Collected Poems'

Michael Dransfield Collected Poems. University of Queensland Press 1987

First published in Southerly Volume 48. No 4. 1988.

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From the archives 1988. The Ultimate Commitment – Michael Dransfield: 'Collected Poems'
First published in Southerly Volume 48. No 4. 1988.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
From the archives 1989. 'Hitting the Wall' by David Foster. This review was first published in 'Australian Book Review' Issue 109 April 1989.

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October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Rochford Street Review issue 43. Surprising views and tender portals: Debbie Lim launches The Ease of Eggs’ by Benjamin Dodds.

"This effortless slipping across settings and subjects and forms seems to reflect his lively curiosity."

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Surprising views and tender portals: Debbie Lim launches The Ease of Eggs’ by Benjamin Dodds
A Dodds poem may be as likely to be set in a classroom as on a farm paddock as on a film screen. It may take the form of couplets, stepped stanzas, a concrete poem, a list or even an erasure.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Rochford Street review Issue 42. Jack Galmitz: 2 Poems

Jack Galmitz was born in 1951 in New York City. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Buffalo in modern American Literature.

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Jack Galmitz: 2 Poems
Jack Galmitz was born in 1951 in New York City. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Buffalo in modern American Literature. His work has appeared in print and digital poetry venues. He was a long…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
From the archives 1986.The Alphabet of Pain – Two books by Jenny Boult

'“i” is a versatile character', WAV Publications, 1986. 'Flight 39,' Abalone Press. 1986.. Both by Jenny Boult. Reviewed by Mark Roberts. First published in Tribune 23 July 1986.

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From the archives 1986.The Alphabet of Pain – Two books by Jenny Boult
'“i” is a versatile character', WAV Publications, 1986. 'Flight 39,' Abalone Press. 1986.. Both by Jenny Boult. Reviewed by Mark Roberts. First published in Tribune 23 July 1986.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Rochford Street Review Issue 42. A heartfelt attempt to capture the fragility of life: Barbara Dunne reviews ‘Mimesis’ By Michael Quinn and Joe Boske.

"Many of Michael Quinn’s poems deal with the personal and collective trauma in the Irish psyche".

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A heartfelt attempt to capture the fragility of life: Barbara Dunne reviews ‘Mimesis’ By Michael Quinn and Joe Boske
Many of Michael Quinn’s poem deal with the personal and collective trauma in the Irish psyche.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Rochford Street Review Issue 43. Sarah Meehan: 3 Poems.

Sarah Meehan lives and writes amongst the creeks and mountains of Jinibara land (Sunshine Coast hinterland). Her work has been published in Australia, Ireland, the UK and the USA.
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Sarah Meehan: 3 Poems
Sarah Meehan lives and writes amongst the creeks and mountains of Jinibara land (Sunshine Coast hinterland). Her work has been published in Australia, Ireland, the UK and the USA, including in The …
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October 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Funding Art in Australia – An interview with Donald Horne (1985). First published in The Tribune Winter Reading Issue (No 2388) 7 August 1985.

"We should be looking at ways to provide people with other views of life rather than just the economic."

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Funding Art in Australia – An interview with Donald Horne (1985)
First published in The Tribune Winter Reading Issue (No 2388) 7 August 1985
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October 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Rochford Street Review Issue 43. Vast, unquenchable curiosity: Les Wicks launches ‘Sejours en France et autre pays’ by Ron Wilkins

""Firstly, one has to marvel at the vast, unquenchable curiosity that runs through Ron’s work.

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Vast, unquenchable curiosity: Les Wicks launches ‘Sejours en France et autre pays’ by Ron Wilkins
Firstly, one has to marvel at the vast, unquenchable curiosity that runs through Ron’s work. There is a global shortage of this invaluable human trait. You find it everywhere in this book from comm…
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October 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
From the archives. 'The Unspeak Poems & other Verses'.

" ‘Political poet’ is his badge, and Thorne wears it with pride, almost with defiance. These poems call out the hypocrisy of warring & the way it’s reported, but we never lose sight of the poetry.'

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From the archives, 2015, Mark Roberts reviews Tim Thorne’s 'The Unspeak Poems and other Verses'.
The Unspeak Poems and other Verses by Tim Thorne Walleah Press, 2014. First published in Cordite, 19 February 2015.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
At Live Poets at Don Bank tonight! MARK ROBERTS presents ‘The Office of Literary Endeavour’. Poet As Witness will demonstrate how verse-persons process experience! Open Section. 6 Napier St Nth Sydney 7.30 pm. $10 entry includes supper and drinks.
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Substack post from Mark Roberts - From the archives 2019. A Personal Sense of Place and History: Mark Roberts reviews ‘Bloodroot’ by Annemarie Ni Churreain

"This is an extraordinary connection, finely crafted and rooted in place, politics and history.

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A Personal Sense of Place and History: Mark Roberts reviews ‘Bloodroot’ by Annemarie Ni Churreain
Bloodroot by Annemarie Ni Churreain, Doire Press 2017. First published in Rochford Street Review Jan 2019
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October 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Rochford Street Review Issue 43. Guth a thabhairt (Giving voice): Michael Witts reviews Seang (Hungering) by Anne Casey

"This beautiful collection is both a joy to read and a challenge."

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Guth a thabhairt (Giving voice): Michael Witts reviews Seang (Hungering) by Anne Casey
This beautiful collection is both a joy to read and a challenge. Each poem stands as part of a carefully curated section. The sections combine to form a collection which demands to be read as a who…
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October 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Substack post from Mark Roberts - From the archives (1993): Combined Review - Minga Street: New & Selected Poems, Craig Powell. 1993. Selected Poems: 1973-1992, Gary Catalano, Flagging Down Time, Jill Jones, The Distribution of Voice, Martin Harrison.

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Combined review of 'Minga Street: New and Selected Poems, Craig Powell, 'Selected Poems: 1973-1992', Gary Catalano, 'Flagging Down Time', Jill Jones & The Distribution of Voice, Martin Harrison
From the archives. First published in 'SCARP' 23, October 1993
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October 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Rochford Street Review Issue 43. A celebration of informed and fruitful difference: Gig Ryan launches ‘The Wallace Line’ by Jennifer Mackenzie

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A celebration of informed and fruitful difference: Gig Ryan launches ‘The Wallace Line’ by Jennifer Mackenzie
Jennifer Mackenzie’s work is often ekphrastic, inspired by, or growing out from, another work of art. She doesn’t describe that work of origin, as if outside of it, but becomes thoroughly embedded,…
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October 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM