Cordite Poetry Review

Peta Clancy

NO THEME 13 Editorial by Chris Tse
NO THEME 13 Editorial by Joel Toledo

Artwork:
15 Artworks by Peta Clancy
Desire Lines by Sarah Firth

Scholarly:
Beyond The Warp: Occult Poetics in H. D. and Robert Duncan by Thomas Moran
Collecting and Curating an Antipodean Anthology: The Poesy of Louisa Anne Meredith by Elizabeth Mansergh
The Ugly Poem: Ouyang Yu’s Terminally Poetic and the Counter-Aesthetics of the Multilingual by Kameron Lai

Essays:
Recovering A Long Drive: Archaeology of a Literary Bot by Rory Green
DIY Dick: The Infinite Invention of the Transmasculine Dick by Oliver Reeson

Interview:
‘Constellations and contradictions’: Chelsea Hart in Conversation with Elena Gomez
‘In the night air by the smoke’: Amelia Walker in Conversation with Barrina South
‘The poem in progress is molten, malleable’: Cassandra Atherton in Conversation with DeWitt Henry

Translations:
3 Lu Jin Translations by Helen Jia
4 Grzegorz Wróblewski Translations by Adam Zdrodowski and Ben Borek

Chapbooks:
Tell Me Like You Mean It 7 edited by Luke Patterson

Kameron Lai
The Ugly Poem: Ouyang Yu’s Terminally Poetic and the Counter-Aesthetics of the Multilingual

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

Beauty has a quality about it that pretends to neutrality and universality, despite being steeped in asymmetrical constructions of aesthetic judgement. Of course, this is no surprise in a hierarchical world; ‘Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.’

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Jennifer Compton Reviews Peter Boyle and Izzy Roberts-Orr

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

First, I salute Vagabond Press – its progenitors, its long-time toilers in the vineyard of poetry, its patrons, its cheer squad, and those who work in the shadows. Any small press, surely, is a hub of more-or-less willing volunteers. It is very expensive, in all sorts of ways, to make a book. Count the cost. But year after year after year, since 1999, Vagabond Press has been turning aside from the multifarious, ever-present griefs of the world, and privileging poetry.

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‘The poem in progress is molten, malleable’: Cassandra Atherton in Conversation with DeWitt Henry

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

I met DeWitt Henry on an online poetry reading series, LitBalm. I’d read his book Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays (2018), and I knew he had founded the famous literary journal Ploughshares, and was an emeritus professor at Emerson College.

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Kameron Lai
The Ugly Poem: Ouyang Yu’s Terminally Poetic and the Counter-Aesthetics of the Multilingual

Jennifer Compton Reviews Peter Boyle and Izzy Roberts-Orr

‘The poem in progress is molten, malleable’: Cassandra Atherton in Conversation with DeWitt Henry

Thomas Moran
Beyond The Warp: Occult Poetics in H D and Robert Duncan

Kent MacCarter
Elena Gomez in as Associate Publisher

Kameron LaiThe Ugly Poem: Ouyang Yu’s Terminally Poetic and the Counter-Aesthetics of the Multilingual

Jennifer Compton Reviews Peter Boyle and Izzy Roberts-Orr

‘The poem in progress is molten, malleable’: Cassandra Atherton in Conversation with DeWitt Henry

Thomas MoranBeyond The Warp: Occult Poetics in H D and Robert Duncan

Kent MacCarterElena Gomez in as Associate Publisher

Issue Launches.Submissions Windows.

Kameron Lai
The Ugly Poem: Ouyang Yu’s Terminally Poetic and the Counter-Aesthetics of the Multilingual

Thomas Moran
Beyond The Warp: Occult Poetics in H D and Robert Duncan

Kent MacCarter
Elena Gomez in as Associate Publisher

Issue Launches.
Submissions Windows.