CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 105: NO THEME 11
Released: 1 June 2022

ESSAYS

Tyne Daile Sumner
Portrait, Lyric, Code: Reading the Face Before and After Laura Riding Jackson’s Body’s Head

Wednesday, June 1st, 2022

A young woman sits partially side-on. Her right hand is wrapped lightly around her left wrist.
She wears no necklace, no rings. She sits against a blue sky.

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REVIEWS

Rory Green Reviews Theory of Colours by Bella Li

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022

Bella Li’s hybrid poetics of text and image are instantly recognisable. Her third collection Theory of Colours follows on structurally and stylistically from her well-received earlier works: Argosy (2017, Vagabond Books) and Lost Lake (2018, Vagabond Books). Here, as with her previous collections, alchemical concoctions of form and genre blend source materials into sequences with a commitment to the surreal and uncanny.

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INTERVIEWS

‘Thinking is not a problem’: Alice Allan Interviews Antonia Pont

Wednesday, June 1st, 2022

Antonia Pont’s debut collection of poetry, You Will Not Know in Advance What You’ll Feel came out with the Rabbit Poets Series at the end of 2019.

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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 James Jiang
James Jiang on as Literature Essays Editor

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

I’m honoured to announce that James Jiang will be taking up the helm of Literature Essays Editor for Cordite Poetry Review. His care, craft and academic nous is peerless. James Jiang is a writer, editor, and recovering academic based in …

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