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'Sarah St Vincent Welch is a Canberra based writer, editor, writing teacher, and image maker, known for her short fiction about the lives of women and girls, and for chalking her poetry on the footpaths at arts festivals. In 2016 she wrote a poem a day for Project 366, an international poem-centric online project by poets, visual artists and translators. She has worked with writers living with disability and mental illness and facilitates community creative writing projects. She has lectured and tutored at the University of Canberra. Her heart belongs to two cities, and she has worked on novels based in both Sydney and Canberra. Open is her first book.' (Publication summary)
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Tim Wright Reviews Sarah St Vincent Welch and Juan Garrido Salgado
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
— Review of Open 2019 selected work poetry ; Cuando Fui Clandestino 2020 single work poetry'The achievements of the poets who started publishing in the early 1980s in Australia have tended to be overshadowed by those of the generation immediately prior to them. Rochford Press was started in 1983 by Mark Roberts and Adam Aitken, catching the tail-end of the little mag boom of the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1980s it was the imprint of the poetry little mag P76 and also published four collections (by Mark Roberts, Rob Finlayson, Les Wicks and Dipti Saravanamuttu). The press wound down activity in the early 1990s, and nothing more was published until Rochford Street Review started up in 2011, a neat demonstration that poetry makes its own time. Alongside the Review, which will shortly publish its 29th issue, there have been a handful of publications, mostly retrospective: the ‘best of’ compilation drawn from Rae Desmond Jones’ little mag Your Friendly Fascist, and the wonderful festschrift for Cornelis Vleeskens. More recently, with Linda Adair as publisher, the press has focused on current poetry, specifically a series of chapbooks that includes the two books under review: Sarah St Vincent Welch’s OPEN and Juan Garrido Salgado’s Cuando Fui Clandestino / When I Was Clandestine.' (Introduction)
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Les Wicks Reviews Open by Sarah St Vincent Welch & Out of Emptied Cups by Anne Casey
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , December 2019;
— Review of Open 2019 selected work poetry ; Out of Emptied Cups 2019 selected work poetry -
Limpid, Lucid & Luminous : Anna Couani Launches ‘Open’ by Sarah St Vincent Welch
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 26 2019;
— Review of Open 2019 selected work poetry'Thanks to Sarah for asking me to launch this book, her first book. It is a beautiful production and features a wonderful cover design and layout by Dylan Jones. Also congratulations are due to Mark Roberts and Linda Adair, small press people from way back, who reactivated their publishing enterprise 7 years ago with The Rochford Street Review, an online journal, and now Rochford Press, their imprint for book production.' (Introduction)
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Limpid, Lucid & Luminous : Anna Couani Launches ‘Open’ by Sarah St Vincent Welch
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 26 2019;
— Review of Open 2019 selected work poetry'Thanks to Sarah for asking me to launch this book, her first book. It is a beautiful production and features a wonderful cover design and layout by Dylan Jones. Also congratulations are due to Mark Roberts and Linda Adair, small press people from way back, who reactivated their publishing enterprise 7 years ago with The Rochford Street Review, an online journal, and now Rochford Press, their imprint for book production.' (Introduction)
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Les Wicks Reviews Open by Sarah St Vincent Welch & Out of Emptied Cups by Anne Casey
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , December 2019;
— Review of Open 2019 selected work poetry ; Out of Emptied Cups 2019 selected work poetry -
Tim Wright Reviews Sarah St Vincent Welch and Juan Garrido Salgado
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
— Review of Open 2019 selected work poetry ; Cuando Fui Clandestino 2020 single work poetry'The achievements of the poets who started publishing in the early 1980s in Australia have tended to be overshadowed by those of the generation immediately prior to them. Rochford Press was started in 1983 by Mark Roberts and Adam Aitken, catching the tail-end of the little mag boom of the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1980s it was the imprint of the poetry little mag P76 and also published four collections (by Mark Roberts, Rob Finlayson, Les Wicks and Dipti Saravanamuttu). The press wound down activity in the early 1990s, and nothing more was published until Rochford Street Review started up in 2011, a neat demonstration that poetry makes its own time. Alongside the Review, which will shortly publish its 29th issue, there have been a handful of publications, mostly retrospective: the ‘best of’ compilation drawn from Rae Desmond Jones’ little mag Your Friendly Fascist, and the wonderful festschrift for Cornelis Vleeskens. More recently, with Linda Adair as publisher, the press has focused on current poetry, specifically a series of chapbooks that includes the two books under review: Sarah St Vincent Welch’s OPEN and Juan Garrido Salgado’s Cuando Fui Clandestino / When I Was Clandestine.' (Introduction)