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06/06/2026

The 2026 Bloomsday supplement has started loading

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

28/05/2026

A very misty day in the mountains. A perfect time to jump on-line and buy some poetry and small press publications

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27/05/2026

P76 Issue 7 – Special Cornelis Vleeskens. Edited by Pete Spence

P76 Issue 7 is a special issue devoted to Cornelis Vleeskens and has been guest edited by Pete Spence. The issue contains a selection of published and unpublished work by Vleeskens and includes poetry, visual poetry and artwork. Jenni Mitchell and Scott Bugbird write of their memories of Vleeskens while Mark Roberts revisits some of his major collections of poetry.

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19/05/2026

Rochford Cottage Bookshop Newsletter - May 2026 - https://mailchi.mp/7831d4b411f8/rochford-cottage-bookshop-newsletter-may-2026

17/05/2026

New from Rochford Cottage Bookshop: 'Achieving Face'. Poems, prose poems and prose by Philip Hammial. $10.99 plus postage and handling

Rochford Cottage Bookshop has a small number of Philip Hammial's 38th and latest collection of poetry Achieving Face, for sale. These are brand new copies.

Achieving Face. Poems, prose poems and prose by Philip Hammial. Island Press 2025.Rochford Cottage Bookshop has a small number of Philip Hammial's 38th and latest collection of poetry Achieving Face, for sale. These are brand new copies.

10/05/2026

'Bread'poems by Philip Hammial, Black Pepper Press 2000. Signed and numbered by the author - now available at Rochford Cottage Bookshop

Rochford Cottage Bookshop has a small number of Philip Hammial's collection of poetrty, Bread, for sale. These copies have been hand signed and numbered by the author.. These copies are new and are available now as Philip Hammial is downsizing and can no longer store them.

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10/05/2026

Facebook censors Rae Desmond Jones - let's see how long this post remains on line...

Rae Desmond Jones would have appreciated this…. The other day I 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 I thought a bit of promotion might help to sell a few collections of Rae’s poems. Meta and Facebook had other ideas. Shortly after the ad, which featured Rae’s poem ‘Australia’ started to run, I received 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 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, elections or political policy”. I went back and read the poem – yes it is a political, but it is a poem and the ad is about buying a book of poetry. It is also not the first time that this poem has been posted to Facebook, but obviously something has changed and a poem like this is now classed as dangerous. I have appealed this decision but I am not holding my breath for a positive outcome.

The best way I 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

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…

08/05/2026

New at Rochford Cottage Bookshop:

'Inveigling Snafus' poems by Philip Hammial.
A$9.99 (plus postage and packaging).

Rochford Cottage Bookshop has a small number of Philip Hammial's 34th collection of poetry, Inveigling Snafus, for sale. These copies are new and are available now r sale. These copies are new and are available now as Philip Hammial is downsizing and can no longer store them.

"Philip Hammial lived Blade Runner before the movie was made" - Adam Aitken

07/05/2026

New from Rochford Cottage Bookshop.

'Sugar' Poems by Philip Hammial. Island Press Co-operative 2006. - $9.99 plus postage and handling.

"Philip Hammial lived Blade Runner before the movie was made" - Adam Aitken

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 available now as Philip Hammial is downsizing and can no longer store them."Philip Hammial lived Blade....

06/05/2026

New at Rochford Cottage Bookshop. 'Auto One' by Philip Hammial. Vagabond Press 2002. Rare. Numbered and signed editions.

Rochford Cottage Bookshop has a small number of Philip Hammial's 2002 Vagabond Press Rare Object chapbook Auto One available for sale. These a numbered and signed from a small print run of 100 copies. These copies are new and have never been sold and are available now as Philip Hammial is downsizing.

Rare Object Number 16.
8 pages. Published 2002.
Cover image by Kay Orchison.

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