CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 104: KIN
Released: 1 February 2022

ESSAYS

Elfie Shiosaki
KIN Editorial

Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

KIN explores how kinship, our understandings of who we are and where we come from, engages with dynamic senses of Country and belonging to Country.

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REVIEWS

Dženana Vucic Reviews White Clouds, Blue Rain by Oliver Driscoll

Friday, March 11th, 2022

White Clouds, Blue Rain (2021) is Oliver Driscoll’s second poetry collection, appearing a short year after his 2020 I Don’t Know How that Happened. Like his earlier work, it is concerned with the everyday: small moments of domesticity and care; conversations both mundane and profound; fleeting interactions with, but more often, observations of, an outside world whose parameters are undefined, but which nonetheless feel tightly bound, contained. To say that this is a result of the pandemic, which has certainly imbued domesticity and its imaginary with a gravitas denied to it when it was considered womanly, would be incorrect insofar as Driscoll has always had an eye for the ordinary, has always been pulled by the intimate, the close.

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INTERVIEWS

Lunchtime Variations: Dominic Symes Interviews Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton

Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

I became interested in how Ken and Peter worked with one another, with an eye to discovering the conditions which allow poetic collaborations to remain fresh and full of humour, in the same way people examine the diets of people in Blue Zones, like Okinawa and Ikaria.

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SCHOLARLY

Elfie Shiosaki, Linda Martin and Nadia Rhook
maar bidi: Carving Sovereignty and Desire in Indigenous Youth Storytelling

Monday, February 1st, 2021

Academia has inherited a long history of non-Indigenous people speaking for Indigenous people.

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GUNCOTTON BLOG

Kent MacCarter and Rory Green
Rory Green on as Games Literature Editor

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022

I’m honoured to announce that Rory Green will be taking up the helm of Games Literature Editor, and to finally get back to using the online space and capabilities more consistently than we have the past decade.

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