Image by Julie Gough

EARTH Editorial: Maria Takolander

Artwork:
11 Works by Julie Gough

Essays:
Colours of the Ground: How Local Pigments Seek Local Words by Gregory Day
When Words Have No Equals: A Response to Lisa Robertson’s Thresholds: A Prosody of Citizenship by Judy Annear

Chapbooks:
The Case of the Animals Versus Humans Before the King of the Jinn by Safdar Ahmed
‘When I look I am seen, so I exist.’ by Maria Vella
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern and Collaborethics by Eleanor Jackson and Tom Hogan
Doppelgangers Across Lands: 6 Poems by Emily Sun

Translations:
3 Inger-Mari Aikio Translations by Kasper Salonen
Long Poem Translation of Marilyne Bertoncini by Dominique Hecq
3 Hasan Alizadeh Translations by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould

Interviews:
‘The amorphousness of meaning-making’: Elena Gomez Interviews Toby Fitch

And 66 new poems selected by Maria Takolander:
Greta Thunberg Ode
by Dominic Symes
notes on a so-called sydney summer
by Holly Friedlander Liddicoat
Tipping
by Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn
Blue Whales
by Dilantha Gunawardana
Two Meditations on the Ecology
by John Hoppenthaler
Brimstone Villanelle
by John Kinsella
Lullaby
by Gavin Yuan Gao
rim
by Joanne Burns
The Waterside
by Zoe Holman
Giant Rainforest Snail
by Jena Woodhouse
The Fish-Twins
by Michael Protacio-De Guzman
Forecast 2030
by King Llanza
Hotbed
by Adam Stokell
Squids
by Corey Hill
Figures in the Water
by Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
Sie semper tyrannis
by Samuel Wagan Watson
Guidelines
by Hibah Shabkhez
abandoning the planet
by Phil Wallach
Striation
by Broede Carmody
Amazon up in smoke
by Christian Garduno
Hands in the Earth
by Dylan Brennan
Orange Wabi-Sabi
by Lou Verga
Night-blooming Cereus
by Natalie D-Napoleon
OCTOPUS
by Kim Westwood
Crow
by Lucy Alexander
The cave, like the world
by Kristen Lang
Death of an Astronaut
by Benjamin Dodds
Scandal Bag
by Beth Merindah
Storied Storage
by Bill Howell
Borisov
by Magdalena Ball
Dark Crystals
by Chris Holdaway
Botanic Park
by Heather Taylor-Johnson
this is not cinema
by Morgan Nunan
Fatberg
by Damen O'Brien
Rules is rules
by Jilly O'Brien
Under the House
by Jennifer Compton
The Language of Flowers
by Ali Jane Smith
Snow Fox
by Kyle Guest
The Museum of Trees
by Susan Wardell
Cemetery Time
by Jessica Holburn
It’s Challenging
by Liam Ferney
The Garden behind the Moon
by Reena Choudhary
Lifting doom’s veil
by Bobbie Sparrow
Cherry Blossom
by Susannah Violette
Conveyor
by Iain Twiddy
Hypoxia
by Claire Collie
Phoning home
by Bronwyn Lovell
FrogID
by Madeleine Dale
Thylacine
by Charles D'Anastasi
Impermafrost
by Matthew Wojczys
The Bogongs
by Alice Blackwood
cast
by Fiona Lynch
r. obtusum
by Sascha Morrell
Some Symptoms, 2019
by Connor Weightman
King Tide
by Toby Fitch
1970
by Simon Hall
With the fishes
by Emilie Collyer
Black-throated Finch
by Jarad Bruinstroop
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 95: EARTH
Released: 1 February 2020


ESSAYS


EARTH Editorial

Saturday, February 1st, 2020

Why ‘Earth’? Because we are of it, because we are destroying it, because there is nowhere else. Because to think about anything else right now feels like dissociation. The theme of this special issue isn’t radical. It’s not political. It’s …

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REVIEWS

Annelise Roberts Reviews Anne M Carson’s Massaging Himmler: A Poetic Biography of Dr Felix Kersten

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

‘The world today is a sick world,’ wrote Estonian-born Dr Felix Kersten in 1947, ‘and it was made so by a group of sick men.’

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INTERVIEWS

‘The amorphousness of meaning-making’: Elena Gomez Interviews Toby Fitch

Saturday, February 1st, 2020

I did write some poetry at school, just never with much intent.

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SCHOLARLY


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

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Submission to Cordite 97: PROPAGANDA

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

Information can be propagated to divide or to unite. It doesn’t have to lie, it doesn’t even have to frame the truth.

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