CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 108: DEDICATION
Released: 1 February 2023

ESSAYS

Lou Garcia-Dolnik and Luke Patterson
DEDICATION Editorial

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

We came about this issue’s theme by dumping loved words into a shared document: nouns, verbs, phrases and onomatopoeia that stirred a shared love of intimacy with language, of play and tricksterism.

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REVIEWS

Toby Fitch Reviews Running time by Emily Stewart

Friday, February 10th, 2023

Emily Stewart is the author of numerous chapbooks, including Like and The Internet Blue. Her debut poetry collection Knocks (Vagabond Press 2016) won the inaugural Noel Rowe Poetry Award and reflected an assuredly varied approach as it experimented with multiple voices (not just in monologues but polyphonic within poems), erasure as a feminist poetics (with homage-like condensations of Lydia Davis, Helen Garner, Susan Sontag, Clarice Lispector and more), post-digital affect (extracting poetic value from online idioms in particular, though sometimes overwhelming the poetic value), all while interleaving themes of climate change, the cost of living, and more in an exploration of what it means and feels like to live in so-called Australia in the Anthropocene.

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INTERVIEWS

‘To encounter the unexpected’: Kate Fagan in Conversation with Miro Bilbrough

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

On 26 March 2021, in a window between lockdowns, author and filmmaker Miro Bilbrough and I met to discuss her free-wheeling memoir, In the Time of the Manaroans (Ultimo Press, 2021).

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SCHOLARLY

Brendan Casey
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

Zenobia Frost, Rebecca Jessen and Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 110: POP!

Friday, March 10th, 2023

We want poems that POP! Think pop culture, pop art, pop music, popcorn, pop rocks. Poems in the shape of a soup can. Ghazals with Bieber Fever. Sonnets with square eyes. Give us bubblegum poems. Channel-surfing poems.

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