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Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Making sense of the strangest of times: Alison Hackett launches ‘Poetic Licence in a Time of Corona’ by Chris Fitzpatrick
6 Poems by Kerry Rawlinson
George Mackay Brown – In the Hands of a Loving Poet: An essay by Tim Slade
Contents
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A Sharp Eye and a Lyric Touch : Beatriz Copello Reviews ‘Bobish’ by Magdalena Ball,
single work
review
— Review of Bobish 2023 selected work poetry ;'It is 1907 in the Pale Settlement, which Magdalena Ball explains was a region of the Russian Empire from 1791 to 1917 where Jewish people were forced to live in poverty and suffered extreme abuse; there her great-grandmother dreamed of a better life. In this year, with a few bundles filled with old clothes as well as with ambition and hope, she left for the Americas and disembarked in New York.' (Introduction)
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A Black Box of All That’s Happened: Ali Whitelock Launches ‘Poetry of Encounter: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology’ Edited by Anne M Carson & Rose Lucas,
single work
review
— Review of Poetry of Encounter : The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology 2022 anthology poetry ; -
A Longing for Place Brendan Ryan Launches ‘Save As’ by A Frances Johnson,
single work
review
— Review of Save As 2021 selected work poetry ;'I am honoured to be asked to launch Amanda Johnson’s fourth book of poetry, Save As. I have known Amanda for some years, and like the person herself, I found this collection of poetry to be playful, funny, critical, smart and a pleasure to be immersed in.' (Introduction)
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An Alluring Enigma : Prithvi Varatharajan Launches ‘And to Ecstasy by Marjon Mossammaparast,
single work
review
— Review of And to Ecstasy 2022 selected work poetry ;'I’m Prithvi Varatharajan. I’m honoured to be launching Marjon Mossammaparast’s second poetry collection, And to Ecstasy. Like Marjon, I’m really pleased that her publisher Terri-ann White is here in Melbourne from Perth. And thanks to you all for coming here this Sunday afternoon, to celebrate this fine collection.' (Introduction)
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A Wide-reaching Recognition of the Importance of Place : Jean Kent Launches ‘Sunday Morning, Here’ by Jill McKeowen,
single work
review
— Review of Sunday Morning, Here 2023 selected work poetry ;'It is a sad, but very special honour to be launching this beautiful Flying Islands book: Jill McKeowen’s posthumously published first collection of poetry, Sunday Morning, Here.' (Introduction)
- The Shearwateri"watching through the dazzle of a low slung sun", single work poetry
- Hymn for My Daughteri"if you look hard enough you will find one", single work poetry
- Crepuscularityi"skulking", single work poetry
- For Steveni"the true supplicant", single work poetry
- Mangrovesi"that timeless summer", single work poetry
- Vale Julia Kaylock, single work obituary
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Vale John Tranter,
single work
obituary
'Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of John Tranter on Friday 21 April. While we will be looking to publish a tribute to Tranter, and his role in shaping contemporary Australian poetry, we are republishing an essay written by Rochford Street Review co-editor Mark Roberts from 1993 which first appeared in Island Magazine. The essay takes as its starting point the Tranter edited Martin Johnston’s Selected Poems to examine the impact of the so-called Generation of 68 and the New Australian Poetry, of which Tranter played a central, if not pivotal, part.' (Introduction)
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Vale Ron Pretty,
single work
obituary
'It is with sadness that Rochford Street Review learnt of the death of poet, publisher and editor Ron Pretty on 30 June 2023.'
