Peta Clancy

NO THEME 13 Editorial by Chris Tse
NO THEME 13 Editorial by Joel Toledo

Artwork:
15 Artworks by Peta Clancy
Desire Lines by Sarah Firth

Scholarly:
Beyond The Warp: Occult Poetics in H. D. and Robert Duncan by Thomas Moran
Collecting and Curating an Antipodean Anthology: The Poesy of Louisa Anne Meredith by Elizabeth Mansergh
The Ugly Poem: Ouyang Yu’s Terminally Poetic and the Counter-Aesthetics of the Multilingual by Kameron Lai

Essays:
Recovering A Long Drive: Archaeology of a Literary Bot by Rory Green
DIY Dick: The Infinite Invention of the Transmasculine Dick by Oliver Reeson

Interview:
‘Constellations and contradictions’: Chelsea Hart in Conversation with Elena Gomez
‘In the night air by the smoke’: Amelia Walker in Conversation with Barrina South
‘The poem in progress is molten, malleable’: Cassandra Atherton in Conversation with DeWitt Henry

Translations:
3 Lu Jin Translations by Helen Jia
4 Grzegorz Wróblewski Translations by Adam Zdrodowski and Ben Borek

Chapbooks:
Tell Me Like You Mean It 7 edited by Luke Patterson

And 55 new poems selected by Joel Toledo and Chris Tse:
Et In Arcadia Ego
by Emily Arnold-Fernández
Phenomenology of Return
by Luisa A Igloria
Civil Fatigues II
by Hind Shoufani
ORATIO IMPERATA
by Lourd de Veyra
PROLOGUE, OR DATING ARTIFICE
by Allan Justo Pastrana
Were is a Word that Floats on Water
by Nerisa del Carmen Guevara
Moana Pōetics
by Nafanua Purcell Kersel
PUERTO PRINCESA
by Dinah Roma
Charades
by Nicole Titihuia Hawkins
Boy smell (deep in your lungs)
by Ethan Christensen
Corpus
by DeWitt Henry
MV Sygna
by KA Rees
Oak Trees and Gum Trees
by Barrina South
The 426
by Vanessa Rose
Mother’s Milk
by Megan Gordon
John Berryman
by Andrew Darling
Un-Austrayan
by Derek Chan
The texture, the surface
by Ann Shenfield
Big picture
by Ali Gallagher
Poem in winter
by Dugald Williamson
Presence of importance
by James Stanwix
Stench
by Philip Kenner
The City and the City
by Ruari Jack Hughes
Elegy at the waterfall
by Eliza Burke
Bright Orange Gerberas
by Elena Preiato
Imperial
by Angela Rona Estavillo
Black Opium
by Cadence Chung
Κάποιος Γέροντας
by Diana Marietta Papas
Afterlove
by Owen Bullock
Return
by Meg Reynolds
willows
by Nathaniel Calhoun
doom piles
by Stu Hatton
Stillness
by Margaret Bradstock
nonbinary poem
by Miriam Jones
Demiurge
by Lee Hana
Fotó
by Erinola E. Daranijo
She Sent me an Animated GIF
by Edward Leeming
Protective Measures
by Maddison Cuerton
Home
by Marcelle Freiman
Flashback to Forster
by David Atkinson
The impasse
by Stefan Balan
kuia
by Maraea Rakuraku
Grasslands
by Hugh Leitwell
Weathervane
by Derek Jon Dickinson
Phosphenes
by Shakira Croce
Sydney, 2018
by Zhao Xingyu
Ruins
by Ion Corcos
ALTAR GIRL
by Imani Nikelle
papatūānuku
by Eartha Davis
Mt Mueller
by Ben Walter
Laverton Ghost
by Jack Forbes
Ravioli
by William Meinert
HELSINKI SESTINA
by Andrew Leggett
Sydney Poem
by Darcy Cornwallis
Marry Right Man Mary
by Natalie D-Napoleon
This Is How It Ends
by Vince Agcaoili
Frightened wolf / Sheep in the bay
by Sophia Hyland-Wolzak
On Falling
by DeWitt Henry
A Map With No Meridian
by Devki Panchmatia
Fool’s Gold
by Lili Pâquet
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 114: NO THEME 13
Released: 1 September 2024


ESSAYS


The Ugly Poem: Ouyang Yu’s Terminally Poetic and the Counter-Aesthetics of the Multilingual

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

Beauty has a quality about it that pretends to neutrality and universality, despite being steeped in asymmetrical constructions of aesthetic judgement. Of course, this is no surprise in a hierarchical world; ‘Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.’

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REVIEWS

Samuel J. Cox Reviews Toby Fitch and Gareth Sion Jenkins

Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

Toby Fitch’s Object Permanence: Calligrammes (Puncher & Wattmann, 2023) and Gareth Sion Jenkins’ The Inclination Compass (Puncher & Wattmann, 2023) both represent not only the culmination of large bodies of work, but also can be considered avant-garde in their experimentation with the boundaries of poetry as a visual medium.

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INTERVIEWS

‘The poem in progress is molten, malleable’: Cassandra Atherton in Conversation with DeWitt Henry

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

I met DeWitt Henry on an online poetry reading series, LitBalm. I’d read his book Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays (2018), and I knew he had founded the famous literary journal Ploughshares, and was an emeritus professor at Emerson College.

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SCHOLARLY


Beyond The Warp: Occult Poetics in H D and Robert Duncan

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

Modernist poetry has a fascination with occult knowledge. It is prevalent in American poet Robert Duncan’s unclassifiable book on Hilda Doolittle, the poet known as H.D. (1886-1961).

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GUNCOTTON BLOG

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Submission to Cordite 116: REMEMBER

Friday, October 4th, 2024

How is memory assailed by states, by time, by the formation of institutional practices of commemoration? Alessandro Portelli once wrote that oral testimonies ‘are not always fully reliable … Rather than being a weakness, this is however, their strength: errors, …

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