- 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
Emily Stewart
NO THEME XI Editorial
A lot happened over the months we spent working on this issue, from November when we published our playful, hyperactive call-out, to now, the beginning of winter, a date that marks a shift in the year’s trajectory. It’s time to …
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Eloise Grills, Emily Stewart
Submission to Cordite 105: NO THEME 11
We want poetry that is effusive and overwrought and hyperbolic and melancholic and sentimental and dark and cheesy and twisted, that pushes itself so far past the realm of good taste that it glides gleefully into ugliness.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Eloise Grills, Emily Stewart
From Northbourne Ave
How vulnerable the body’s archive reproduction and memory a banner juts out a banner juts out pure vector two or three mediocre feelings inscrutable protesters and their certainty and their tough white crosses what life is like scabrous raked-over pine …
Posted in 92: NO THEME VIII
Tagged Emily Stewart
from Conglomerates
Myself I saw the first tender shoots of Gehry thumbnails planted two-and-a-half blocks from the beach, Sydney Eastern Standard Time. That good ideas pitch us forward is a mid-week provocation. This good idea makes the same old view newly visible, …
Posted in 87: DIFFICULT
Tagged Emily Stewart
American forests are moving west and nobody knows why
for Amelia Dale royal blue antipodean nightmare the sadness of chess pieces ala kazam symbolic debt nature’s union important nuclear misery ripcurl shoulder check popping swampland hera’s pomegranate glaze a solutions based empire microsoft surface algorithmic intel cool springsteen wifeswap …
Posted in AP EWF 2017
Tagged Emily Stewart
Historical Winter
The composition of any given aura is a painterly mix. So I’ll choose the shadow colours grey and pixelate. However the cold comes this year I will wear that same grey chorus and my own corona —should I imagine—will be …
Posted in 72: THE END
Tagged Emily Stewart
Review Short: Rachael Munro’s Indigo Morning
Rachael Munro is a keen observer who writes in a language of nettles and nets, establishing a daily mood via the accumulation of certain details. This is a book of apricot tissue petals and fences-turned-crystal lattices; of the world in its weather and a poet caught in the tangle.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Emily Stewart
Good Friday
Your carefulness was a waste Of fucking time. I needed your Libido’s restless vice an unstable Touch. There is much to fear Paragraphs of fear and many poor Taste suitors who might stick up For a Woody Allen. Only place …
Posted in 70: UMAMI
Tagged Emily Stewart
You Are Here: Canberra, March 2012
I lived in Canberra for five years. It rocked. But it is very true that Canberra’s literary credentials do not make themselves readily known to casual visitors. Used in the short, Canberra is more commonly code for a kind of …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Andrew Galan, Blast, Block, Burley, Canberra, David Finnigan, Miranda Lello, performance poetry, poetry communities, You Are Here
Emily Stewart Interviews Astrid Lorange
Astrid Lorange: poet, phD student and Sydneysider, is Cordite’s guest editor for our Sydney issue, which launches next week. She kindly agreed to answer some hot-coal questions for me about living Sydney, writing poetry and curating for Cordite. Read on! …
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged Astrid Lorange, Emily Stewart
Highlights from the Poetry Symposium
About a week ago, I got along to the Political Imagination: Contemporary Postcolonial and Diasporic Poetries symposium, hosted by Deakin Uni at their suave city campus. Convened by Ann Vickery, Lyn McCredden and Cordite’s very own Ali Alizadeh, the symposium …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged diasporic poetry, symposiums
Thoughts on Adrienne Rich
It was rubbish news, to hear that Adrienne Rich had died on March 27. Her influence on my poetics, as well as my person, has been significant. On first reading her poems – those within A Fact of A Doorframe, …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Adrienne Rich, QLD Literary Awards
Australian Poetry eBooks – Why Don’t They (really) Exist Yet?
In mid-Feb, the Copyright Agency Limited held their annual seminar at the State Library of Victoria. This year’s seminar was themed ‘Digital publishing today’, and saw the announcement of two major digital initiatives – CAL’s own new web resource Digital …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged eBooks, publishing
Flash Bulbs in the Dark: Women are Dynamite
The poetry canon does women few favours. Over the years, I’ve had to seek out and find my own choice femmes to balance out the bookshelves. Never feeling the pull of Plath or Dickinson, I went from Sappho to Aphra …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Alison Croggon, Claire Gaskin, GUNCOTTON, Helen Symonds, joanne burns, Michelle Cahill, Sarah French, women
‘Hunger repletion musick fire’: Dransfield, Post-punk and the Countrylink Express
Many of you will be clued-in on the recent commentary re. Gray and Lehmann’s Australian Poetry Since 1788 anthology, published toward the end of last year. One of the criticisms of the book has been the choice of poets included, …
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged derek motion, Emily Stewart, michael dransfield, post-punk
State of Origin
“This is Hodges’ outstanding winger Steve Price swallowed up by Lockyer’s tackle They’ve been together a long time – as mates […] Back to the sideline & finish him off! Turn that left hand Carney! “An intended intercept should nullify …
Posted in 43: OZ-KO (ENVOY)
Tagged Emily Stewart
Bernie Malley: Blu-ray Morpheus
His metamorphosis contains the very mystery of sleep: the outline of a fluidity, the look, sign, and gesture of evanescence with the charm and virtue of presence – Jean-Luc Nancy a. Technicolour dreaming leads me here again an …
Posted in 42: CHILDREN OF MALLEY II
Tagged Emily Stewart
Bernie Malley: red eye
inflight enter- tainment guide say “chillax”. glance prehist- oric day dawned corrugated charmed, seams of burn- ished earth ochre deep spindly curve end fabled plinths, white. this new day is witness: trajectory of god s rich, myths eternal gold spun …
Posted in 42: CHILDREN OF MALLEY II
Tagged Emily Stewart
