Welcome to the Rochford Street Review eBook portal. You will find here a growing collection of literary ‘flip books’ for your online reading pleasure. These will range from out of print…

A celebration of the incredible life of Louise Wakeling will be held on Wednesday the 19th of August at 11am AEST.

Looking for something to do in Sydney tonight? Max Easton’s new novel, Now Autonomy, will be launched at the Gaelic Club, upstairs at 1/64 Devonshire Street Surrey Hills from 7pm.

A simple Intervention is a powerful allegory of obedience and coercion and the ability to push back. The narrative is sparse and simple yet driven by a strong filmic imagery.

Rochford Street Review has set up a portal allowing paid Rochford Street Review subscribers and supporters with access to a range of digital poetry eBooks. Each month one of the titles will be made…

And that concludes the 2026 Rochford Street Review Bloomsday Supplement

To mark the conclusion of our 2026 Bloomsday Supplement we are republishing two articles marking the publication of Gabrielle Carey’s James Joyce a Life in 2024.

Lisa Mckimmie’s current works are all based on the visual and emotional complexity and symbolism of green, a colour often referenced by Joyce as holding complex meaning.

Anne Casey reading her poem, ‘ERASURE: Monumental Decision of the United States on the Ban on Books’, at the Joyce Jam at the Gaelic Club, Sydney, on Sunday 14 June 2026

Our Bloomsday Supplement continues with three Visual Poems

The Rochford Street Review Bloomsday Supplement continues with Michael (MRS K).

Marguerite Doyle continues the 2026 Rochford Street Review Bloomsday Supplement

Carl Walsh goes on a pilgrimage in our 2026 Bloomsday Supplement

Justin Lowe remembers Patrick Dignam on Bloomsday ….

Richard Clarke continues our Bloomsday Supplement with his poem ‘Metempsychosis’

Lynn White and words continues our 2026 Bloomsday supplement

Linda Adair writes to Sylvia Beach as part of the 2026 Bloomsday Supplement

Our Bloomsday supplement continues with Bronwyn Rodden poem ‘National Gallery, Dublin’ .

Helen Hagemann ‘Driving into Dublin’ for Bloomsday

Stephen Smithyman adds his poem ‘Dublin: A Reverie’ to the 2026 Bloomsday Supplement.

Erik Korhel from Seattle joins Rochford Street Review’s Bloomsday Supplement with three poems …

John Bennett takes us to Dublin Airport in Rochford Street Review’s 2026 Bloomsday Supplement

Academic, teacher, editor, reviewer and writer Devika Brendon continues the 2026 Bloomsday Supplement

Mark O’Flynn’s Chatroom Narcissus continues our 2026 Bloomsday Supplement.

Ger Duffy’s poem, ‘Letter to Miss H Weaver’, continues Rochford Street Review’s 2026 Bloomsday Supplement.

Joyce Jam – A Bloomsday Celebration Sunday 14th June | From 6pm upstairs at 1/64 Devonshire Street Surry Hills, NSW.

Next in Rochford Street Review’s 2026 Bloomsday Supplement is Jennifer Harrison poem ‘Flaneur’.

Bronwyn Rodden poem ‘Dublin April’ continues our 2026 Bloomsday Supplement.

The Rochford Street Review’s 2026 Bloomsday Supplement continues with Karen J McDonnell poem ‘The Book’.

Rochford Street Review’s 2026 Bloomsday Supplement continues with Anne Casey’s ‘ERASURE: Mounmental Decision of the United States on the Ban on Books’.

‘Cities that are not Dublin’ by Mark Roberts continues Rochford Street Review’s 2026 Bloomsday Supplement

Rochford Street Review’s 2026 Bloomsday Supplement continues with Melissa Ridge’s poem ‘Dublin Soundscape’

The 2026 Rochford Street Review Bloomsday Supplement kicks off with Mark O’Flynn’s ‘If Joyce had Spellchack.’

For four decades Geoff has taken his poetry and performed it in schools, prisons, youth detention centres, universities, pubs, factories, construction sites, police academies and board rooms as wel…

Much of Ron’s work has this “carved in granite quality.” Not only because of the strength of its imagery but also its conviction.

Peer Smits lives in The Netherlands and has been making art since 1982. He is a writer of prose & poetry. A scanartist, a visual poet, a composer, painter and photographer, he is also responsi…

The multiple meanings of the title of Sarah’s beautiful collection introduces us to how playful and clever with language this book is, and also how every poem has multiple strands and potential int…

In celebration of his upcoming birthday, Mark Roberts is raising funds for Rochford Street Review instead of choosing Meta’s suggested charities. His goal is to gather $200 by the end of May.…

Antonio Montaine is a rhythm poet whose style is shaped by the pulse of Jazz and the edge of Hip Hop. His work dives into social and political issues, carrying both urgency and groove. The son of i…

O’Halloran explores the personal grief of her own losses and widens the lens to encompass loss as part of the human condition. She is generous in her compassion for the unnamed and the unknown dead…

Colleen Keating is among the most illustrious and excellent writers and poets, it was an honour for me to review her book. Beautiful, inspirational, true to life, I enjoyed reading every poem.

In celebration of his upcoming birthday, Mark Roberts is raising funds for Rochford Street Review instead of choosing Meta’s suggested charities. His goal is to gather $200 by the end of May.…

For paid subscribers this newsletter also provides a sneak preview of two of the new eBooks which will form part of the Rochford Street review eBook portal, which we will be launching over the comi…

Rochford Street Review will once again be producing a Bloomsday Supplement for Bloomsday 2026. This year we are calling for submissions of all things Joycean for consideration. So if you have a Joy…

Glen Hunting is currently based in Mparntwe, Arrernte Country (Alice Springs, NT). He writes about estrangement and (be)longing, cultural culpability, (en)gendered notions of bodies and behaviour, …

Then this morning a received a notification from Facebook saying that the Rae Desmond Jones ad had been rejected as it was too political and didn’t apply with their “policy about social issues, ele…

Rochford Cottage Bookshop has a small number of Philip Hammial's 19th collection of poetry, Sugar, for sale. These copies are new and are available now r sale. These copies are new and are availab...

A small number of Philip Hammial's second poetry collection, Chemical Cart, are available for sale through Rochford Cottage Bookshop. These books were published by Philip Roberts' Island Press...