CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 92: NO THEME VIII
Released: 15 August 2019

ESSAYS

Claire Gaskin
NO THEME VIII Editorial

Friday, August 16th, 2019

Nothing makes me feel my fallibility more than editing a literary journal, marking papers or judging a literary competition. I can be wrong. I can be unclear. I can miss things.

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REVIEWS

Margaret Bradstock Reviews Phyllis Perlstone’s The Bruise of Knowing

Monday, October 7th, 2019

The Bruise of Knowing is Phyllis Perlstone’s third collection of poetry from Puncher & Wattmann, and arguably her best to date. It tells the story of Sir John Monash, highlighting themes of ambition, power and warfare.

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INTERVIEWS

‘A means of resistance’: Susie Anderson Interviews Alison Whittaker

Friday, August 16th, 2019

Some writing teaches you possibility. Possibility in a number of ways: seeing yourself reflected in a body of work, echoing familiar words, places, or ideas; some writing is a lesson about form, or acts as an overall object to aspire to.

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SCHOLARLY

Camille Rouliere
Chorography and Toute-eau in the Waters of Lower Murray Country

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

The first line of this fragment by poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite opens philosopher Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation. ‘The unity is submarine’.

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GUNCOTTON BLOG

Damen O'Brien, Yvette Holt, Judith Beveridge and Tamryn Bennett
2019 Val Vallis Poetry Award Winner

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

Damen O’Brien is the winner and the runner up to the 2019 Val Vallis Poetry Award, managed by our longtime partner, Queensland Poetry Festival.

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