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Perfect Timing
The work of the cloud is lonely and continuous. The rider from Brazil unable to find other work during lockdown. Whose bike and capacity to ride remained unchecked, lucky to leave with just a broken arm. In such jocund company, …
Posted in INVISIBLE WALLS
Tagged ann vickery
Caitlin Maling Reviews Dennis Haskell, Maree Dawes, Amy Lin and Miriam Wei Wei Lo
It’s a flourishing time for Western Australian poetry and publishing. We have seen the well-publicised launch of Terri-Anne White’s press Upswell (responsible for Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Award’s shortlisted Clean) as well as the retention and success of UWA Publishing (who are currently bringing us the collected works of John Kinsella), while existing houses Magabala Books (home to Charmaine Papertalk Green, Ambelin Kwaymullina, and Elfie Shiosaki) and Fremantle Press (Andrew Sutherland’s 2022 Paradise: Point of Transmission having just been shortlisted for the Small Press Network Book of the Year) go strength-to-strength.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Amy Lin, Caitlin Maling, Dennis Haskell, Maree Dawes, Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Angela Costi Reviews Anita Patel, Denise O’Hagan and Penelope Layland
Since 2015, Recent Work Press has published a consistently high standard of poets with years of accomplished adventure including Paul Hetherington, Peter Bakowski, Anne Casey, Damen O’Brien, Phillip Hall, Anne Elvey, Jennifer Compton, Rico Craig, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Cassandra Atherton, Jen Webb, Adrian Caesar, and so many others.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Angela Costi, Anita Patel, Denise O’Hagan, Penelope Layland
UnMonumental: 20 Works by Matt Chun and James Tylor
UnMonumental is a collaborative project by artists James Tylor and Matt Chun. UnMonumental posts events from Australian history that are little known, hidden or commonly misrepresented, accompanied by original watercolour drawings.
Posted in ARTWORKS
Tagged Alexander Tolmer, George Dyer, George Robinson, James Tylor, John Clunies-Ross, Kalungku, Matt Chun, William Dutton
western sydney fugue
1. parramatta childbirth is as bloody as war & I am due to give birth soon. I too am being reborn as a mother, an indian mother, an australian mother. there are weights attached to me that drag my limbs …
Posted in 104: KIN
Tagged Pooja Biswas
A Mouth Saying Stroh-beh-ree
For reasons sufficient to the writer, as ‘Papa’ would say, certain places, people and words have been left out of these notes. Some are secret and some are known by everyone.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Édouard Levé, Ling Toong, Rosemary Freedman, Sylvia Plath
We Speak to the Fish in our National Language | 我们对着鱼缸说国语
Facing the fish bowl, I speak the national language1: each vowel, a gust upon glass; each accent, a mosquito’s unsteady dance. From my watch’s face, each second, turbulent, rises like smoke. The English of the 50’s was but a colonial …
Posted in 99: SINGAPORE
Tagged Valen Lim, 周德成 (Zhou Decheng)
the ending knot | முடிக்கும் முடிச்சுகள்
as if they were pearls of pomegranate cascading onto the wet floor slipping between these moments of the past snaking through the Sunday market — the sea of people (grey-haired) dissolves into the crowd. negotiating a price, Kokila (who had …
Posted in 99: SINGAPORE
Tagged Harini V, Shalani Devi
Declan Fry Reviews Cham Zhi Yi
The reader will have to imagine for themselves what Maria-Àngels Roque, editor-in-chief of Quaderns de la Mediterrània, a twice-yearly journal focused on authors from the Euro-Mediterranean, must have felt upon hearing these words.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Cham Zhi Yi, Declan Fry, Juan Goytisolo
James Jiang Reviews To Gather Your Leaving: Asian Diaspora Poetry from America, Australia, UK & Europe
An anthology like this one that aims to be so broadly representative puts itself in a paradoxical position where the failure to articulate a coherent voice amounts to a kind of success.
Toby Fitch Reviews Holly Friedlander Liddicoat’s CRAVE
First books are a big occasion for poets. Their publication makes something heretofore unofficial official while announcing the poet as one committed to ‘the art of language’, as Gig Ryan describes poetry.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Holly Friedlander Liddicoat, Toby Fitch
Thirty-Six Views of the Parallax: Mark Young’s the eclectic world, Bandicoot habitat and lithic typology
The first thing to note is that the body of a typical Mark Young poem often bears no relationship to the title. Do not be alarmed: this is a postmodernist conceit, and Young is thoroughly postmodernist, although he would eschew such a label.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Javant Biarujia, Mark Young
Review Short: Maxine Beneba Clarke’s Carrying the World
At the launch of Carrying the World, Maxine Beneba Clarke shared the mic with spoken word performers who were part of her decade long journey in poetry. The poignancy of Clarke’s gesture demonstrates how embedded she is in a literary community that erases the distinction between ‘high art’ (page) poetry and the spoken word.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Lian Low, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Timmah Ball
Hannah Hall Interviews Omar Musa
After the panel, I arrived at Musa’s table in time to see him reach into a bag and pull out a stack of his new CDs and place them on the table for sale. ‘I don’t know if I’m allowed to do this, but I figure I can give it a go’ he said. Much like his art, Musa shifts and grooves between the personas of rapper, novelist and poet.
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged Hannah Hall, Omar Musa
Conversion
I watch people gain weight. Not in the way a man on the internet pays a woman in another state to eat red velvet cake over a webcam does. But in the way of tides and sandbanks, or tulips emerging …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Caitlin Maling
Review Short: Timothy Yu’s 100 Chinese Silences
Recently I watched a program on the resurgence of Pauline Hanson. In one scene Hanson stands in her old fish and chip shop in Ipswich, Queensland, a business she sold to a Vietnamese Australian lady named Mrs Thanh. Hanson boasts of her hard work, and takes over the frying. Hanson proceeds to advise Mrs Thanh on how to make potato scallops fluffier.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Adam Aitken, Timothy Yu
Review Short: Omar Musa’s Parang
Omar Musa is something of a phenomenon. I mean that both in the demotic and the philosophical senses. Self-publisher, author of the successful novel Here Come the Dogs (longlisted for the Miles Franklin), lyricist with international hip hop outfit MoneyKat, Wikipedia subject. As demonstrated by the author photo in this book Parang, autobiographical promotional videos (‘Live and Direct from Kingsley’s Chicken’), comparisons to Junot Diaz and his sartorial style, Musa has made a career from ‘the street’.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Omar Musa, Robert Wood
Submission to Cordite 51: TRANSTASMAN Open!
Photo by Nicholas Walton-Healey Poetry for Cordite 51: TRANSTASMAN is guest-edited by Bonny Cassidy I’ll be looking for poems that can swim, fly, float, sail and possibly even skim across the very short and very deep difference between Australia and …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Bonny Cassidy, Kent MacCarter, Robert Sullivan
Review Short: Omar Musa’s Here Come the Dogs
Primarily known as a performance poet and rapper, Omar Musa has embarked on another textual form with his latest publication, Here Come the Dogs. Written in a combination of verse and prose, Here Comes the Dogs offers an intimate portrait of three young men negotiating issues of identity and marginalisation in an unnamed Australian city. Musa, who is Malaysian-Australian, positions his poetry and prose in a manner that allows for his book to confront themes surrounding cultural and ethnic identities, intersectional discrimination and problematic expressions of masculinity and power.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Autumn Royal
The Writing: Benjamin Laird
Melbourne-based Benjamin Laird writes computer programs and electronic poetry, which he discusses here in the first of a new, occasional blog series looking at the writing practice of contemporary Australian poets.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Benjamin Laird, Jacinta Le Plastrier, Jason Nelson, john tranter, Maged Zaher, mez breeze, William Denton
Review Short: Anne M. Carson’s Removing the Kimono
Every poem in Anne M. Carson’s collection is appealing on account of the distinctive cast of mind revealed in a precise language that registers the author’s alertness to all senses. Three groups of poems establish a pattern of mortality and rebirth, of natural forces and human emotions.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Anne M Carson, Michael Sharkey
Timothy Yu Reviews Contemporary Asian Australian Poets
A decade ago, Cordite Poetry Review asked me to write a review of its tenth issue, ‘Location: Asia-Australia.’ In my review, I wrote that while the issue did a splendid job of showing the intersection between two separate places called ‘Asia’ and ‘Australia,’ it was less clear whether the ‘Asian-Australian’ could also be a thing unto itself, a kind of writing that might be visible within domestic as well as international spaces.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey, Michelle Cahill, Timothy Yu
Asian Australian Diasporic Poets: A Commentary
This essay provides a survey of the poetry of some Asian Australian poets, and does not attempt to be definitive. Diasporic poetics raise more questions than they answer and are just as much about dis-placement as about place, just as much about a ‘poetics of uncertainty’ as about certainties of style/nation/identity.
Adam Aitken Reviews John Mateer
Southern Barbarians is a book that explores both the colonised and the colonizing impulse through the inflections of the Portuguese epic Os Lusíadas by Camões, the explorer/soldier/poet-traveller and heroic poet of the Portuguese. The book ranges from Lisbon to Macao, taking in Indonesia, Malaysia, Warrnambool, and Japan on the way. This is a world where African businessmen in Macao see ‘African wildlife’ in a travel agent’s window, in an image of savannah they are no closer to than the Macanese.”
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Adam Aitken, John Mateer
