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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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Stephan Delbos: The Prague Micro Festival Poetry Series

prague_festival_poster1In 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.

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"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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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)

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 & …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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