- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones
CONTRIBUTORS
Cordite Poetry Review
It helps to have a pedigree
It helps to have a pedigree though some pumpkins live perfectly swell lives without them to grow through litigious lines of aesthetic concepts only to suffer the indignity of Halloween when I was mistaken for my mutt and didn’t bitch …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Quincy R. Lehr
at the moonlight splayed, shot on the dirt floor, silver and soft.
at the moonlight splayed, shot on the dirt floor, silver and soft. we were shooting the les murray biopic & it was all going cheaply to plan (for cannes) plenty of slow pans and montages – a bit short on …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Peter Coghill
Listen, o poet, to this marvel of the night.
Listen, o poet, to this marvel of the night. ert-pksh-ert-pksh-ert-pksh: berlin with its pockets full of vomit a narrow orderly line after a fashion which is to shock, not enlighten when God said kill the boy, please explain Listen, o …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Anthony DiMatteo
he was a beautiful thief in the night
he was a beautiful thief in the night with a handbag full of greek syntax there was nothing he couldnt do right or wrong – or up or down, or east or west, nothing nothing could steal syllables he’d tucked …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Olga Pavlinova Olenich
Whose guts garland the dogs of Troy / Not Patroclus’
Whose guts garland the dogs of Troy / Not Patroclus' shoesize but close enough & a vixen to boot I’d sent them tighter pics the definition would have been the bind focus on the blood, not the teeth while Garmr, …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Mani Rao
but we must feel there is something amiss
but we must feel there is something amiss when we come home & find michael stipe taking notes by the hedge yes, we know: it’s the end of the world through any crooked passage way where tongue and fingers work …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Alan Kenneth Redman
There once was a man who lived in a house
There once was a man who lived in a house with four doorways and a dark room for the cheesecake between a flyscreen to the rear and someone else’s bedroom and the cistern that screeched like a banshee in the …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Greg Rochlin
the period of doubt
the period of doubt was his favourite. Now we seem gathered in a line or was he hooked at the end of one? The comma of faith followed by a lazy ten Hail Marys And silence at the gate where …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino
Post-Epic Editorial
We're thrilled and excited to say that we've now gone live with the second part of our Epic issue. Cordite 31.1: POST-EPIC aims, in the spirit of Ko Un's Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives), to produce 1,000 lines of epic poetry. Towards this end, the poets featured in our Epic issue have each nominated a line from their work to be used as the title and starting point for a new Post-Epic poem.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged collaborative, epic, remixes
Stephan Delbos: The Prague Micro Festival Poetry Series
In our latest feature, Stephan Delbos recalls some highlights from the inaugural Prague Micro Festival Poetry Series, held in Prague and Brno between 14-18 April 2009. To accompany the words and images, Cordite presents five live recordings of readings by Australian poets Jill Jones, Philip Hammial, Michael Farrell, Pam Brown and Louis Armand at the Globe Bookstore on 15 April 2009.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Czech, Jill Jones, Louis Armand, michael farrell, Pam Brown, Philip Hammial, Prague, spoken word, Stephan Delbos
"Haikunaut Island Renga"
flub-a-dub in the purple west helicopter (David G. Lanoue) a bald eagle atop the sharp left turn sign (Naia) a woman knits flowers on a soldier's grave (Lawrence) her second husband wears red-framed glasses (SAT??Æ Ayaka) apple sack and a …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT, Haikunaut / Renga
Tagged collaborative, haiku, renga
Haikunaut Island Renga 2
children laugh unafraid of the past in the summer grass (Keiji Minato) a ladybug of leisure wanders upside-down (Fleur) on a city tram opening to Han Shan's distances (Lorin Ford) cold mountain range plays hidden music (Joseph Mueller) hunting truffles …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT, Haikunaut / Renga
Tagged collaborative, haiku, renga
Haikunaut Island Renga 1
flub-a-dub in the purple west helicopter (David G. Lanoue) a bald eagle atop the sharp left turn sign (Naia) a woman knits flowers on a soldier's grave (Lawrence) her second husband wears red-framed glasses (SAT??Æ Ayaka) apple sack and a …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT, Haikunaut / Renga
Tagged collaborative, haiku, renga
Petar Tchouhov: 5 Haiku
Bulgaria | (Shiki Kukai, February 2008, First Place) | (Ginyu 28, October 2005) | (Shiki Kukai, December 2006, Second place; Big Sky: The Red Moon Anthology 2006 | [written in English only – The Heron's Nest 9.4, December 2007 and Dust of Summers: The Red Moon Anthology 2007)
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Naia: 5 Haiku
parting . . . the clatter of train tracks into dark father’s old books . . . today I open the cabinet just to breathe them leaving the cabin for the last time . . . pine dust on my …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Lenard D. Moore: 5 Haiku
red dust– a little boy sprints the bases between innings new century– the neighbor’s rusty car still on blocks misty river– the drone of the drawbridge still in my ears autumn sunset hospital helicopter rises from the heliport spring moon …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Toru Kiuchi: 5 Haiku
a variety of things fall down under the dark of trees いろいろなものおちてくる木下闇 a baby spider climbs up along my trousers’ crease 蜘蛛の子の服の折目をかけあがる in a house where nobody comes a mackerel sky たれもこぬ栖家にねむり鰯雲 morning glory’s seeds all black I shut the …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Jim Kacian: 5 Haiku
the endless loop of the men's room towel this morning in murky light in grand-dad's attic gelignite beneath the Milky Way an evening soft with moths pain fading the days back to wilderness between statues the rest of history First …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Ljudmila Hristova: 5 Haiku
замръзнало езеро рибите почукват по небето frozen lake fish keep knocking on the sky топла вечер клоните на сухата топола – мрежа за звезди warm evening the poplar’s dry branches – fishing-net for stars пълнолуние сянката на котката се спуска …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Stanford M. Forrester: 5 Haiku
falling for the flame trick again . . . me & the moth Shiva’s Temple – a toddler chants along in baby talk Chinatown morning – the vendor turns on the toy sparrows after the bang bits of paper & …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Curtis Dunlap: 5 Haiku
rocky creek bottom – returning the worry stone I borrowed last year drinking sake until I'm ready for the blowfish cycling with my son – this is the autumn I fall behind rain drops changing the tone of river stones …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Johnette Downing: 5 Haiku
thinness her eyelids as I close them (Frogpond 31.2, 2008) polka dots farther apart at the hips (Frogpond 30.1, 2007) withered chrysanthemum- the warmth of a tea cup (Frogpond 38.1, 2005) roofers next door their shadows work on my house …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
Ludmila Balabanova: 5 Haiku
прашинки в слънчевия лъч невидими до преди малко motes in the sunbeam – invisible a moment before (motes in the sunbeam, Plovdiv, 2007) snow again – how much my son’s footprints have grown! отново сняг – колко са пораснали стъпките …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
UI Togen (宇井十間): 5 Haiku
穫り入れが終わり 世界は影にすぎぬ After harvest The world is now only a shadow 地の涯に神々すでになく白 The end of the earth No gods remain White midnight sun Ideeそこに／「私」が泳ぎはじめる／「私」の不在 Toward IDEE I start swimming After I disappeared 夏蝶きて 海と 世界という書物 A …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
