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NO THEME 12 Editorial: by Nadia Rhook and Caitlin Maling

Artwork:
9 Artworks by Rel Pham

Essays:
Syntax Error: Troubleshooting Failures in Coding and Language by Anita Solak
Why = f(x): A Retired Tumblr Girl’s Inquiry into Suffering, Stardom and Female Labor by Wina Puangco-Mutuc

Interviews:
‘Like all change, it happens in the margins’: Joan Fleming in conversation with Jeanine Leane
‘Collective generosities’: Sara M Saleh in Conversation with Jazz Money
‘Atrophy and entropy’: Tiarney Miekus in Conversation with Darcy Bella Arnold

Translations:
Scenes from a Slanting City: Theophilus Kwek Translates Zhou Hongxing
4 Paulo Huirimilla Translations by Stuart Cooke

Chapbook:
deScription: Improvisations on the Mid-career Drawings and Paintings of Nola Farman

New books:
Introduction to Ken Bolton’s A Pirate Life by Nicholas Jose
Introduction to Dan Hogan’s Secret Third Thing by Eda Gunaydin
Introduction to A J Carruthers’s AXIS Z Book 3 by Wang Guanglin

Book reviews:
Jennifer Compton Reviews Sarah Holland-Batt and Gavin Yuan Gao
Angela Costi Reviews Anita Patel, Denise O’Hagan and Penelope Layland

And 60 new poems selected by Caitlin Maling and Nadia Rhook:
On Knowing
by Madison Godfrey
Behind Every Job Ad in Indigenous Studies
by Alice Te Punga Somerville
Self-Care
by Omar Sakr
And yet, and yet, and yet
by Noémie Huttner-Koros
{The First Time}
by Charlie Samuya Veric
And here, now, again
by Saoirse Nash
The Northern Suburbs
by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
icarus in the gloaming
by Michelle Cahill
Uncer Giedd / Our Song
by M.L. Martin and Anonymous pre-10th c. Anglo-Saxon Feminist
Earth Apple
by Beth Merindah
Letter to Luoyang Chen
by Andrew Sutherland
Deaf Sentences
by Rita Tognini
A Fall Confession
by Georgio Russell
Escalations
by Jo Langdon
Cranes
by Stuart Barnes
Journal in March
by Petra White
K A M A Y A N
by Carina So
Breach
by Jill Jones
in flux, rising
by Montague Cole
Dead Dad Club
by Becca Wang
Speech patterns
by Natalie Bühler
Triptych with Oranges
by Shey Marque
Valour
by Anders Villani
rent free
by Xiaole Zhan
plan(e)t
by Siwar Masannat
Tufahije
by Lora Subotic
Mahjong
by Eileen Chong
Sagittarius A*
by Alicia Sometimes
Creature
by John Kucera
Kristen Stewart
by Bonny Ross
Fishhook
by Sharon Du
Volcanic Fed
by Lisa Collyer
Bird
by Lake Angela
Infertility
by Bron Bateman
bodily (ab)normalities
by Helena Pantsis
Taking Care: White Family
by Christian Hanz Lozada
Stick Woman
by Audrey Molloy
Accretion Farming
by Laurence Levy-Atkinson
a trip on day soil
by Livio Farallo
I Find the Cosmic Tree
by Luoyang Chen
Lament
by George Freek
A Short Time in the Yard
by Michael Riga
Meditation at Max’s
by Denver Ejem Torres
Epiphyte
by Elsie Mellor
Exhibition
by Aditi Arun
In the Suburbs
by Dmitry Blizniuk
open questions
by Rosie Isaac
Birthday Poem
by Gabriel Curtin
MOON FALLEN
by Asvira
Recital
by Allan Peterson
no land promise [4]
by Nhã Thuyên and Kaitlin Rees
Gibraltarian Stanzas
by Edwin Yeats
NO THEME 12 Editorial
by Nadia Rhook and Caitlin Maling
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 109: NO THEME 12
Released: 15 May 2023


ESSAYS

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NO THEME 12 Editorial

Monday, May 15th, 2023

We have had the honour of editing this issue as two poets with collections published and forthcoming with Fremantle Press, and invited by Kent in the spirit of ‘shining a light’ on the thriving and amorphous field and bush that might be called ‘Western Australian poetry’.

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REVIEWS

Angela Costi Reviews Anita Patel, Denise O’Hagan and Penelope Layland

Thursday, May 11th, 2023

Since 2015, Recent Work Press has published a consistently high standard of poets with years of accomplished adventure including Paul Hetherington, Peter Bakowski, Anne Casey, Damen O’Brien, Phillip Hall, Anne Elvey, Jennifer Compton, Rico Craig, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Cassandra Atherton, Jen Webb, Adrian Caesar, and so many others.

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INTERVIEWS

‘Like all change, it happens in the margins’: Joan Fleming in conversation with Jeanine Leane

Monday, May 15th, 2023

Jeanine Leane and I met in the Spring of 2022 to plot this interview over coffee. Jeanine has a quick, ferocious intelligence that moves associatively, while her fingers make languid circles in her hair. She is fine-boned and extremely upright.

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SCHOLARLY


Essential Gossip: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and U.S.-Australian Poetics

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

In 1985, when the bulky anthology Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (first published in 1968) was printed in a new edition, it was advertised with the curious dust jacket recommendation: ‘hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the last thirty-five years’.

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GUNCOTTON BLOG

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Submission to Cordite 111: BABY

Tuesday, May 30th, 2023

Send us your babies. Nobody puts poems in a corner.

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