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Alex Creece

Alex Creece is a writer, collage artist, and average kook living on Wadawurrung land. Alex works as the Online Editor for Archer Magazine and the Production Editor for Cordite Poetry Review. She's also on the editorial committee for Sunder Journal. Alex has been awarded fellowships with Writers Victoria, Arts Access Australia, The Wheeler Centre, and Midsumma Pathways. Her work has been shortlisted for the Kat Muscat Fellowship, the Next Chapter Scheme, the Geelong Writers Prize, the Born Writers Award, and the Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award. Alex's first book is Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth (Cordite Books, 2024).

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Introduction to Alex Creece’s Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Alex Creece

Alex Creece’s Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth is a reckless, glorious, grotty revolution. It’s an insubordinate ‘kissyface of cobwebs’ that sticks it to capitalism, heteronormativity and the patriarchy.

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i ain’t reading all that / i’m happy for you tho / or sorry that happened

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Alex Creece

“She owed us so many poems” – Keaton Patti’s AI-bot-inspired obituary Constructed one sentence per day What if I don’t have any poems left in me? Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my cosmic comeuppance. It doesn’t matter what …

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Fidget Spinster

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Alex Creece

For Amelia Newman Can you hear me? Wait—you’re on mute! Uh huh! Okay, I’ve got you now! It’s me! … Yep, it’s Velma’s knobby knees, the Grinch’s gay mothers, Elmo’s favourite ice cream flavour—pistachio— and that music that plays when …

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Birth-Controlled Dyke

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Alex Creece

Butter me up with hormone heresy Butter me up, butterfuck so I don’t get battered in the street consequence evaporates like dormant spiders in crumpets doubling bubbling toilet troubles two-minute eternity in a piss-fingered cubicle where our futures sweat with …

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Dirty Talk

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Alex Creece

I know I’m low in iron when I start craving the dirt. I mix mineral supplements into my orange juice, because you absorb iron more effectively with vitamin C, did you know? and then the cravings subside. But the supplements …

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Brutalism: Poems by Alex Creece

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Alex Creece

During a recent conversation, a friend and fellow writer asked what I considered to be my greatest literary strength. I am grateful for her patience, because I definitely didn’t arrive at a speedy conclusion.

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Review Short: Iris Fan Xing’s South of Words

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Alex Creece

Christopher (Kit) Kelen has described Iris Fan Xing’s South of Words as ‘not translation’. The intersection between English and Chinese Mandarin lies at its heart, reflecting Fan’s converging identities across settings and cultures.

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Alex Creece Reviews Marion May Campbell’s third body

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Alex Creece

Third body takes form on the cusp of metamorphoses between species, ecosystems, technologies, existential planes, and even between art and artist. ‘passing’, the title of its first section, becomes a motif of the entire collection – perhaps most significantly for its variety of meanings.

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Alex Creece on as Production Editor

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Alex Creece

I’m honoured to announce that Alex Creece is joining the Cordite Poetry Review fold as Production Editor, joining us from her time in the Cordite / Monash University Summer Term Internship Program.

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