Chunxiao Qu

REMEMBER Editorial: by Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Micaela Sahhar

Artwork:
12 Artworks by Rona Green
14 Artworks by Chunxiao Qu

Reviews:
Bonny Cassidy Reviews Judith Bishop and Jeanine Leane
Jennifer Compton Reviews Esther Ottaway and Diane Fahey
Cher Tan Reviews Hasib Hourani and Manisha Anjali

Essays:
Degrees of Freedom in Live-space: Desire Paths and Open World Games by August Moulang
Ghost Writing: Translation, Death and Renewal by Alice Whitmore
Home Is Where the Heart Is: on Gomeroi Country by Rob Waters
Upon Losing One’s Map: Displaced Affects in Fatima Lim-Wilson’s Poetry by Jean Aaron de Borja

Interviews:
‘If I could see what’s coming, I’d run a mile’: Gareth Morgan in Conversation with Gig Ryan
‘Fa’afatama identity and healing through poetry’: Dani Leever in Conversation with Rex Letoa Paget

Translations:
3 Ioana Vintilă Translations by Clara Burghelea
3 Amelia Rosselli Translations by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard

Chapbooks:
DIVINE INTERVENTIONS by Panda Wong
The Hunt for the Thylacine by Libby Broome
So-called Australian Made: In Response to Lycette and Fox by Tim Loveday and Graham Akhurst

And 65 new poems selected by Micaela Sahhar and Annie Te Whiu:
Outside the box
by Jeanine Leane
A pound of flesh
by Ariana Tikao
the act
by Alison Whittaker
Can’t Complain
by Feras Shaheen
A Song for the Māori People
by Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Time Wasted
by Lorna Munro
Our Uncles and Old Girls
by Mykaela Saunders
A Memorandum
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Between Memory and Rubble: Returning Home
by Mahmoud Al Shaer and Saleh AbuShamala
UNTITLED
by Nam Le
Black Salt
by Peter Sipeli
crush
by Natalie Harkin
Medicare Wellness Test
by Naomi Shihab Nye
They don’t remember
by Nathan Sentance
Palestine as Subtext
by Sara M Saleh
White Gaze
by Raelee Lancaster
A History Lesson
by Tina Ngata
Write with What You Have
by Tristen Harwood
The Sixth Sister
by Rita Tognini
tha an speur a’ seinn
by Eartha Davis
history // painting
by Bradley Visaka David
Romances
by Janet Reinhardt
Scapegoat
by Torrey Bruinstroop
Taxidermy
by Rozanna Lilley
22, part two
by Owen Bullock
Everyone you know is a Cancer
by Angelita Biscotti
Life cycle
by March Abuyuan-Llanes
Letter from Overseas
by Brian Obiri-Asare
After Injury
by Grace Roodenrys
chameleon
by Crispin Rodrigues
Three Seedlings
by Yuemin He and Zhang Zhihao
The Death of Burke
by Margaret Bradstock
Our mothers
by Jayant Kashyap
Borderlands
by Mary Luck
Arms
by Eleanor McCooey
Gin Fizz
by Jennifer Compton
Forty Years
by Aylin Mulayim
Yellow Pressed
by Veronica Troup
Hamza
by Dženana Vucic
Amygdala hijack
by Kim Pham
Pyromancy
by JDG
Holding the knowing
by Anne Elvey
On an Antique Breast Pump
by Isabella G Mead
Patchwork Memories
by Emily Brown
If a Baby Cries
by Angela Costi
homebound doubts
by Rosie Bogumil
Al-Awda
by Hilary Hewitt
The Observer
by Clodagh Beresford Dunne
The finally still
by Kirwan Henry
The Morrigan
by Coco Stallman
Smyrna, 1922
by Ion Corcos
Molo Road
by Eric Abalajon
Tryptich
by Arlea Whelan
Colour Theory
by Sher Ting Chim
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 116: REMEMBER
Released: 7 May 2025


ESSAYS


Ghost Writing: Translation, Death and Renewal

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

On 22 June, 2022, I lost my poet. He wasn’t really mine, and I didn’t really lose him, but we belonged to one other in that particular way that translators and poets do, and his death extinguished a partnership between us that had once fizzed with possibility.

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REVIEWS

Kameron Lai Reviews Suneeta Peres da Costa and Šime Knežević

Monday, June 16th, 2025

While I am hesitant to pathologise the diasporic experience (it is indeed a site of joy!), the effects of displacement often feel proximate to malady. I am always cautious to frame diaspora in such ways – it would not be genuine of me to pretend as if it were always a joyful experience, or something that I have never felt ashamed about. And there is guilt in that shame. Suneeta Peres da Costa’s The Prodigal (2024) and Šime Knežević’s In Your Dreams (2025) stoke the fever in my heart that aches and involuntarily turns to ugly feelings, pleated over and over as I make sense of my place in relation to contemporary Australia and my ancestral homelands.

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INTERVIEWS

‘If I could see what’s coming, I’d run a mile’: Gareth Morgan in Conversation with Gig Ryan

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

Gig Ryan is known for writing unusual, and challenging poetry. She published her first collection, The Division of Anger, in 1980. Ryan’s most recent collection, New and Selected Poems, was published in 2012. There is a lot to say. To begin, I think of lines that stand out through sheer intensity: ‘this slop hovering in the background like a new Hawaii’, from the poem ‘So What’ in Manners of an Astronaut (1984) is one of the scariest and funniest images / insults I have ever encountered.

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SCHOLARLY


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

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

Modernist poetry has a fascination with occult knowledge. It is prevalent in American poet Robert Duncan’s unclassifiable book on Hilda Doolittle, the poet known as H.D. (1886-1961).

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GUNCOTTON BLOG

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Submission to Cordite 117: NO THEME

Friday, February 14th, 2025

Send me a poem that would nourish a stray cat. Send me a poem that takes a big swing, that risks calamity. Send me a poem where your inspiration has taken flight. Send me a poem that the academy cannot stomach. Send me a poem that doesn’t look like one. Send me a poem that AI could never generate, that demands humanity.

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