- 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!
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36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones
CONTRIBUTORS
Cordite Poetry Review
SATÔ Ayaka (佐藤文香 ): 5 Haiku
逆光の汽船を夏と見しことも Once I thought of a ship against the light as summer itself 暗室に時計はたらく冬の蝶 A clock serves in the darkroom – a winter butterfly 夏料理鏡の奥のやはらかく Summer dishes – the mirrors soft in their depth 牡蠣噛めば窓なき部屋のごときかな Chewing an oyster feels like …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
SAKAITANI Masato (堺谷真人): 5 Haiku
よく変はる手相のうへの桜貝 Cherry-blossom clams on a palm whose lines always change 牛蛙どちらの言ひ分から聴かう Bullfrogs – which opinion should I hear first? カフェラテに浮かぶ暗号青葉雨 Cipher floating on my cafe latte – rain on young leaves 朝の蛾の這ふ堕天使の這ふごとく A morning moth is creeping like a fallen …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
OKAMURA Tomoaki (岡村知昭): 5 Haiku
霜焼の一家迎えるみずうみよ Oh, lake welcoming a family with frostbite 小食でたぶんよろしい春の月 It’s probably okay to be a small eater – spring moon いのうえの気配なくなり猫の恋 Mrs. Inoue’s sign is finally gone – cats in love 不整脈なら葉桜に食われけり Irregular pulses eaten by green leaves of cherry …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
OKADA Yuki (岡田由季): 5 Haiku
夏の果天井桟敷の人動く End of summer – people on the gallery are moving 夫婦で来て妻ばかり話す水鳥 A couple comes & only the wife talks – waterfowl 廃番の口紅塗りし月の夜 I put on lipstick in an abolition number – moonlit night パレードをやり過ごしたる花の冷 I wait for a parade …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
MINATO Keiji (湊圭史): 5 Haiku
淋しくて夜ごと肌をぬぐ樹木 Lonely trees shed their bark every night 秋しぐれ泥人形と生まれて泥 Autumn drizzle – dolls made of mud turn into mud 冷やかや魚類図鑑に葉のしおり Autumn coolness – a leaf as a bookmark in an encyclopedia of fish デルタブルース芋を剥き芋を剥き …
Posted in 34: HAIKUNAUT
stalking utopia
braking by the wide verandah a pall of dust behind the ute dogs slouching towards the driver waiting to be borne aloft loaded on the tray no-one walks to the shadow of the pub stalking utopia a string quartet isaac …
Posted in 33: PASTORAL
Tagged Ron Pretty
Chris de Adamson: ‘Don’t Pay the Ferryman’
It was late at night, maybe after midnight, out on an open road, or at least that sidewinding, treacherous snake of a highway whose name had been tagged to many a teenage dream, many a drunken cop, too. I had …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
Tagged Imitators
Albert Adamson: River Vis(t)a
The jetty is like an airport the fishermen with their poles swarthy keen on departure lounging in their tinnies full of tinnies Bats overhead at dusk drop passports of crap splatting the water prawns rise to the top eating it …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
Paul Hardacre: chiang mai
winter there or no / morphine or meat, secret link between the heart of man & things amidst the ruins left & first she fed him aspic seed (lavender) & earthworms, sealed the slot with dung / a little something …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
Tagged paul hardacre
Paul Hardacre: kathmandu
could lose his leg, or his life / skin like green barley, & curled / the claw we always joked about, swept onto a railway platform or stored as one of herzog's toes / another memorable trimming session, black blood …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
Tagged paul hardacre
Adam Aitken: Lines from The Lover
It was never a question of beauty but something else. Mind for example. For a long time you had no dress of your own, except those your mother had her servant make. D– could sew with hair-fine needles, pleats and …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
Tagged Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken: Notes on the River
Prologue a river's there for cutting grass for police to drop their pants have their fill al fresco for girls to sober up on a life whittled away by extortion icons of shame drifting in the garden shadows …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
Tagged Adam Aitken
John Tranter: For Robert Adamson
Rock and roll chained to the typewriter is one way of putting it, Southern Comfort is another, but without the comfort, and with the ending a surprise, as the ending repeats itself as the beginning back to front and then …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
Tagged john tranter
Boxes small
for james, and Kasia the shape of mortality eludes us. an enforced placid response to today the form of our cells discontents me. in america and immoderate states I have buried too many children and with the penance …
Posted in 30: EXPERIENCE
Tagged Basil Eliades
Margie Cronin: Innocence
INNOCENCE: Blamelessness. INNOCENT: Not hurtful. One free from fault. Approaching the world with an attitude unwounded and harmless. Having a vigorous and unprejudiced perception that does not expect what it will find. Being prepared not only to understand but to reunderstand.
Genevieve Tucker: Online? Present & Accounted For
In 2003 Cordite commissioned Anna Hedigan to review the websites of Australia's established literary journals. Now, four years later, we ask: what's changed? Genevieve Tucker's update looks at the online presences of some of Australia's litjournals in the context of …
Trisha Kotai-Ewers: Tashi
Tashi sits at the side of the stage in the bamboo chair. A monk in golden robes on a blood red seat. Tashi sits on stage in his cell in Tibet the pages of his magazine scattered in his head …
Posted in 27: GENERATION OF ZEROES
Timothy Barbon: looking happy
and it's just morning but warm already they're looking for scraps they're snacking on the leftovers two dogs on the train tracks. clack! it's a sedan on the crossing it's been smacked up the back by a station wagon and …
Posted in 27: GENERATION OF ZEROES
Tara Motherwell: Slow News day
The teapot, once dropped from a two storey window, now skated down the street on tiptoes.
Posted in 27: GENERATION OF ZEROES