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1 Suckling Pigs i "What is a tree", Aden Rolfe , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , February vol. 6 no. 1 2019;
1 Embalmed Ones i "Here a scalpel makes an opening, a splint frames a gesture", Aden Rolfe , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , March no. 41 2019; (p. 63)
1 Those That at a Distance Resemble Flies i "Nothing is great", Aden Rolfe , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , August vol. 5 no. 2 2018;
1 Those That Are Trained i "You turn the teapot three times", Aden Rolfe , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 77 no. 3 2018; (p. 76-77)
1 Waterweighted i "Ongoing but indisposed.", Aden Rolfe , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writing to the Wire 2016; (p. 192)
1 3 y separately published work icon False Nostalgia Aden Rolfe , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2016 9313458 2016 selected work poetry

'False Nostalgia is rare among poetry collections, a work which is both lyrical and philosophical. It explores the way memory works, and the role memory plays in our sense of identity, and what we take to be the significant moments in our lives – the relationship between what we remember and the stories we tell about ourselves. Through stand-alone poems, exploratory poetic sequences, and essays which read like extended prose poems, Rolfe considers the complex connections between experience and recollection, the drive to document the moment, the fear of forgetting, the power of nostalgia, and the creative unreliability of memory itself. He approaches his subjects from oblique angles, evoking feelings of connection and disconnection, the experience of never quite grasping your own understanding of things. The poems place the reader in half-remembered places – on beaches walked during holidays, in festival gatherings and forests, film screenings and auction houses – asking not only what it means to look back fondly on a second-rate experience, but what it means to look forward to looking back on a moment while you’re still living through it.' (Source: Publisher's website)

1 Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge i "There are those you expect him to own and those of which he is", Aden Rolfe , 2016 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 53.0 2016;
1 On the Occasion of Gig Ryan’s Sixtieth Birthday : A Sapphic Collaboration i "That it's pure, when it comes from their mouth, well I'd", Michael Farrell , Yu Ouyang , Louis Armand , Bonny Cassidy , Kate Lilley , John Hand , Toby Fitch , Tracy Ryan , John Kinsella , Ella O'Keefe , Kate Fagan , Aden Rolfe , Melinda Bufton , Lisa Gorton , Liam Ferney , Ann Vickery , Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng , Corey Wakeling (editor), 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2016; Overland , Summer no. 225 2016; (p. 58)
1 (m) Those That Have Just Broken the Flower Vase i "For some, the relation between the body", Aden Rolfe , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August no. 51.0 2015;
1 Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, Duet Iii of V Aden Rolfe , 2015 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August no. 51.0 2015;
1 2 form y separately published work icon A Thoroughly Wet Mess Aden Rolfe , 2015 Australia : ABC Radio National , 2015 8671065 2015 series - publisher radio play mystery historical fiction

'THE MYSTERY In 1872, the crew of the Mary Celeste goes missing at sea, never to be heard from again. The ship doesn’t sink, the cargo is found intact and there’s no sign of foul play. So what happened to them?

'This is just what our characters intend to find out. Enter Sophie and Marc Marshall, descendants of the captain of the Celeste. They’ve been invited aboard the Mary Celeste II, a replica of her namesake, to recreate their ancestors’ fateful voyage. Once they set sail, however, it’s clear that something’s afoot. Or afloat.

'Will they discover what happened to the Mary Celeste before they succumb to the same fate? What’s the captain hiding in the hold? And what about that stowaway?' (Production summary)

1 Aden Rolfe Reviews Land Before Lines by Nicholas Walton-Healey Aden Rolfe , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 17 2015;

— Review of Land Before Lines 2014 anthology poetry
1 form y separately published work icon Like a Writing Desk Aden Rolfe , ( dir. Aden Rolfe et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2014 8889006 2014 single work radio play

'Are crows smarter than chimpanzees? Can they solve riddles? And why exactly is a raven like a writing desk? This dark comedy profiles Bella Radcliffe, a curator assembling an exhibition entitled ‘True Crow’, alongside Charles and Grace Brenner, a young couple whose house is being overrun by a flock of crows. Their stories are linked not just by the presence of these birds, but by that of Derek Castenada, Bella’s keynote speaker. A self-styled crow-chaser, Derek offers to augur a solution to the Brenners’ problem, but he’s soon gone missing, on the trail of the mythical crow-child, Reagan Ayres. The drama culminates in the opening night of ‘True Crow’, as we await Derek’s triumphal – or tragic – return.'

Source: ABC website (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/radiotonic/like-a-writing-desk/5481664). (Sighted: 14/9/2015)

1 Afterthoughts i "Mark a sentence with your finger, draw a line", Aden Rolfe , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 2014; (p. 39)
1 Review Short : Kevin Brophy’s Walking, Aden Rolfe , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;

— Review of Walking : New and Selected Poems Kevin Brophy , 2013 selected work poetry
1 Meridian i "Catalogue everything in the garden", Aden Rolfe , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
1 ‘Plural’ Aden Rolfe , 2014 single work poetry
1 Regression to the Mean i "A jar, a thought, a slight breeze. Who else is tired of these props", Aden Rolfe , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013; (p. 134) The Age , 19 January 2013; (p. 33)
1 On Zerkalo i "The prevailing sense I'm left with is that of wind, not in slow motion,", Aden Rolfe , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 2 no. 2 2012; (p. 51)
1 Untitled Aden Rolfe , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 14 2012; (p. 23)

— Review of A Difficult Young Man Martin Boyd , 1955 single work novel
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