Artwork by Karima Baadilla
Cordite + Liminal introduction:
Bad Naturalisations: by James Jiang
Artwork:
Let’s Pull Things Apart Together: 7 Works by Karima Baadilla
Essays:
The essays in this collaboration between Liminal magazine and Cordite Poetry Review have been edited by Cher Tan and Leah Jing McIntosh. Liminal commissioned Asian Australian critics to respond to a work of their choice from Cordite’s archives.
CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 107: LIMINAL
Released: 1 December 2022
ESSAYS
Eda Gunaydin
Monday, December 5th, 2022
The Email May Contain Information: Eda Gunaydin on Toby FitchWhat might it mean to acknowledge that this is the substance of the labour performed by many of us, those of us who aspire to do anything but?
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REVIEWS
Translation and Experiment and Translation: Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From by Sawako Nakayasu (and Friends)
Thursday, October 27th, 2022This review concerns poet Nakayasu’s most recent major collection (as of March 2022), the self-translated hallucination that is Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (2020). Some Girls is one of the most advanced realizations of an experimental writing practice informed by modernist approaches to literature explicitly between languages, sensitive to a multilingual compass.
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INTERVIEWS
‘Energy is Art’s force’: Dan Disney in Conversation with Joyelle McSweeney
Thursday, September 15th, 2022‘In a station of the vortex pick me up and hurl me’ writes Joyelle McSweeney in the poem ‘Oocyte’, appearing in their celebrated collection Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat Books, 2020). In this heady exchange of ideas, the author of ten books (poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, translation) reveals a formidable erudition swirls through the heartlands of their elemental writing.
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SCHOLARLY
Meera Atkinson
Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Writing Threat and Trauma: Poetic Witnessing to Social Injustice and CrisisThis article explores creative responses to crises that are written and technologically mediated in a liminal zone between threat and trauma.
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GUNCOTTON BLOG
Lou Garcia-Dolnik, Luke Patterson and Kent MacCarter
Sunday, September 4th, 2022
Submission to Cordite 108: DEDICATIONThis issue asks for your devotions, your gestures of esteem and affection, your hot takes on the solemn and fanatical. It delights in submissions seeking abandonment and surrender to a goal or cause.
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