Facebook/Meta posthumously censors poet Rae Desmond Jones |
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Rae Desmond Jones would have appreciated this…. The other day we created a Facebook ad to promote Rae’s posthumous collection of poems The End of the Line. We have quite a few copies left and thought a bit of promotion might help to sell a few. Meta and Facebook,howevr, had other ideas. Shortly after the ad, which featured Rae’s poem ‘Australia’ started to run, Wereceived a number of messages from random people relating to the poem, these messages went something along the lines of ‘Bullsh*t’ and ‘unAustralian f*ckhead’. Apparently some people disagreed with Rae’s poem.
Then we 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, elections or political policy”.
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| The best way we can think of to fight back against this censorship is to buy a copy of Rae’s last poetry collection The End of the Line. It is available from Rochford Cottage Bookshop for $10 plus postage and handling. |
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Andrew Burke: New & Selected Poems, Walleah Press, 2020. Sale Price until 30 June $9.99 (plus postage and handling)To see it all together like this has been a revelation. .... Poetry may not save us collectively, but Burke shows what it can do for the individual, and readers can’t help but be strengthened and encouraged by that, as I have been. —DAVID BROOKS The poems are full of objects, incidents, people, things seen or heard. {Burke} has a very good ear and sense of rhythm ... I can hear your voice and get the emotional shadings, and the humour and the irony ...—ANDREW TAYLOR
Burke is a gifted handler of the colloquial and it’s always with the leap and constraint in that poetic line of record he has made his own ... He’s one of the few poets who can mix sincerity with irony in the same line, never mind in the same poem. —JOHN KINSELLA This collection is in turns engaging, amusing, heartbreaking, whimsical and profound. A huge achievement! —ANNA MARIA WELDON
Burke's New & Selected serves as a great tribute to a major Australian poet.
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P76 No:9 Poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora/ odyssey. A$20.00 plus postage and handlingP76 No: 9 responded to the theme of the 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival - ‘Poetry that sounds like all of us!’ - which welcomed poets to share, listen, and put diverse points of view. Rochford Press invited works engaging with notions of Poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora/odyssey from individuals from a range of communities, both here and internationally. We received some two hundred submissions, and the selection bound within these covers is limited to what we could produce as a hardcopy artefact. Much more fine work will appear online as a Special Sonic Supplement in Rochford Street Review. Poets featured in the hardcopy edition include: Jeanine Leane , Ali Alizadeh, Kate Maxwell, berni m janssen, Alex Skovron, Alison J Barton, Anne Casey, Kerri Shying, Caterina Mastroianni, Rashida Murphy, Helena Spyrou, Glen Hunting, Philip Davison, Amanda Anastassi, Peter Bakowski, Nadia Niaz, Jeltje Fanoy, Todd Turner, Darragh Fleming, joanne burns, Eliza Dune Daiza, es foong, Awale Ahmed, Kit Kelen and Janet Reinhardt.
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The Sky Inside Us by John Jenkins Ginninderra Press 2022, Sale Price until 30 June $14.99 (plus postage and handling)
In his eleventh poetry collection, John Jenkins displays a boldness and creative variety, across a wide sweep of subject matter, which should hold great appeal to readers. Here are poems of heartfelt emotion balanced against playful humour, plus jabs of fast wit and satirical asides, plus serious reflection on some pressing political and social issues of our times. There are also long-form prose poems, often of considerable imaginative daring, and also mini poems and shorter lyrics. Many have a lively formal balance and hypnotic beauty. Altogether, Jenkins takes us on a rich and engaging journey, into the heart of modern Australian poetry.
"It’s hard to think of another contemporary Australian poet who sets out deliberately to produce quite such a mixture of styles and modes." - Martin Duwell.
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The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering by Linda Adair. Melbourne Poets Union Inc 2020. Sale Price until 30 June $15.00 (plus postage and handling).
Linda Adair is a poet, writer and artist, publisher of Rochford Press and co-editor of Rochford Street Review. She holds an honours degree in English from the University of Sydney, a Masters Degre in Sustainable Development from Macquarie University and a landscape Diploma from Ryde TAFE. She was an editor and writer at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum from 1987 to 1999. She has also freelanced for lifestyle and garden magazines. As a horticulturalist/landscape designer she prepared bushland plans of management to protect riparian zones from the impact of adjoining development.
“From the broken, the fragmented, the intentionally shattered, Linda Adair attends to the puzzling of those shards into a mosaic of poems. Menace exists, not abstractly, not without cause, but through design and ill-conceived human ideation. Adair’s language sings like a brook through the granite of this poetry.” – Amanda Joy
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“The book’s title: The Unintended Consequence of the Shattering offers a window into Linda’s rich imagery, stunning syntax, surprising twists of language choices and striking turns of topic. This highly accomplished debut is a full-bodied and wide ranging vista on Linda’s deeply empathic connection with our troubled world.” – Anne Casey
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“So many of us meander into our calling. Adair shows a singular focus in her shift towards poetry. She paints an assailed world, often wrapped in loss. Elements of our flawed society are isolated, examined then balmed with an indefatigable empathy. Both deeply personal and universal this book introduces us to an engaging voice.” – Les Wicks
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| Rochford Cottage Poetry and Small Press Bookshop is a on-line and and sometimes pop-up bookshop based in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Inspired by Collected Works Bookshop in Melbourne and the NSW Poets Union Travelling Poetry Bookshop of the 1980's Rochford Cottage Bookshop was set up in mid 2021 by Linda Adair and Mark Roberts, to support the publishing activities of Rochford Street Review and Rochford Press. |
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