Issue 2: The Crimes That Rhyme

1997

Editorial

FEATURES

The Crimes That Rhyme
responses to Peter Boyle’s ‘Doggerel and Grace’ (Cordite Issue 1)
Tom Clark, Geoffrey Dutton & Robert Gray

PETER MINTER
Intereview with Philip Salom

IMAGES

CATH BARCAN
woman with gun (front cover)
man with beer (back cover)
ear and shell
man and woman (editorial)

POETRY

ERIC BEACH | looking back on th sixties
ALAIN BOSQUET | The Light-House
     translated by Rae Sexton
MTC CRONIN | The Ride
LUKE DAVIES | Poem in England
MICHAEL FARRELL | A quarterly persona
DOMINIQUE GRANDMONT | Prayer to Freedom
     translated by Ian Patterson
JS HARRY | Drift
MICHAEL HEALD | Fremantle Anchors
SEAMUS HEANEY | Jesus and the Sparrows
DOROTHY HEWETT | The Ghost in the Bar
JAMES LUCAS | Sydney
JOHN MATEER | On the Train To Geelong
ROD MENGHAM | To the Soviet Embalmers
EUGENIO MONTEJO | Orpheus
     translated by Peter Boyle
TREVOR POULTON | Johnny Wheel
NICOLAE PRELIPCEANU | Metaphor
     translated by Peter Boyle
ZAN ROSS | Concatenation
ARTHUR SPYROU | If I was Delacroix I’d be a dickhead
HUGH TOLHURST | White
JOHN TRANTER | The Howling Twins
JOSEPH ZARESKY | Pseudopanax

REVIEWS

MTC CRONIN
     Emma Lew THE WILD REPLY
     Jill Jones THE BOOK OF POSSIBILITIES
DOROTHY HEWETT
     Robert Adamson & Juno Gemes THE LANGUAGE OF OYSTERS
KATHIELYN JOB
     Jennifer Harrison CABRAMATTA/ CUDMIRRAH
     Jordie Albiston BOTANY BAY DOCUMENT
MARK O’FLYNN
     Philip Hodgins SELECTED POEMS

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Editors Adrian Wiggins & Peter Minter
Released 1997
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