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An interview with M. F. McAuliffe

M. F. McAuliffe was born and educated in Adelaide and Melbourne, and holds an Honours degree in English and some graduate stuff in photography and anthropology. She has taught technical writing, media analysis and basic TV production to engineering and …

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An interview with Brendan Ryan

Brendan Ryan grew up on a dairy farm at Panmure in Western Victoria. One of ten children, the themes of farming and family have influenced his poetry for over twenty years. His first chapbook, Mungo Poems was published by Soup …

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Work: A Cordite-Prairie Schooner Collaboration

Cordite is excited to announce a special collaboration with Nebraska-based literary journal, Prairie Schooner. The collaboration, entitled ‘Work’, is the first in what promises to be an exciting ‘Fusion’ series, wherein Prairie Schooner teams up with innovative journals from around …

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Submissions for Cordite 38: Sydney extended

Cordite 38: Sydney will be guest-edited by Astrid Lorange, and is due online in May 2012. Out of the goodness of our hearts, and due partly to our own confusion about the correct closing date, we’ve decided to extend submissions …

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Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online

Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online and features forty new works by a whole bunch of poets who got super-excited by the opportunity to send us poems on any theme they liked. Or else, um, no theme at all. …

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Coming soon: Cordite-Prairie Schooner Fusion!

Cordite is very excited to be involved in US journal Prairie Schooner’s Fusion series; in fact, we’re the first cab off the rank, with a special WORK co-feature due online in February 2012. The feature will include fifteen poems from …

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Submissions now open for Cordite 38: Sydney

We invite submissions for Cordite 38 on the theme of ‘Sydney’. Given that Cordite was founded in Sydney in 1997, we think that now is a good time to revisit our roots, and what better way to do that than …

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Cordite 36: Electronica is now online

Image: Maxine Clarke, ‘Poelectronica’ (detail) We’re over the moon to announce that Cordite 36: Electronica is now online. Join our guest poetry editor Jill Jones as she navigates the blips and beets of the electronic(a) universe. Featuring: New Poetry Editor: …

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An interview with Jason Nelson

It is overly simplistic to state digital poems come entirely from building/discovering interfaces. Any artist’s creative practice is a merging/melding mix of fluid events and inspirations. But within many digital poems there is one commonality, the emphasis on interface.

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Electronica Spoken Word Mix

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Cordite seeks a new Managing Editor

*PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VOLUNTARY POSITION* Cordite Poetry Review is Australia’s premier online poetry journal. Over the past decade, Cordite has published thirty full issues (and ten mini-issues) online, featuring hundreds of Australian and international poets. In addition to …

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Tina Giannoukos reviews Ali Alizadeh

Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh University of Queensland Press, 2011 Ali Alizadeh’s latest collection, Ashes in the Air, blows across the fault lines of our manifold present. These are poems of strong rhetorical force. With remarkable alertness to …

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Poetry Republic of Korea

Cordite Poetry Review, together with the Asialink Writing Program and the Korea Language Translation Institute, is bringing four of Korea’s best-loved poets to Australia later this month.

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Submissions now open for Cordite 37: No Theme!

We know some of you have been champing at the bit to send us some of your amazing new works but now the wait is over – submissions for our thirty-seventh issue are now open! Yays!

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2001-2011: A Screenshot Odyssey

As mentioned just now, Cordite has now been online for a decade, and in that time, we’ve published 2,000 posts, including over 1,000 poems, hundreds of reviews and feature articles and an assortment of ephemera so eclectic it makes Brian Eno’s discography sound like one long drone.

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