- 114: NO THEME 13with J Toledo & C Tse 113: INVISIBLE WALLSwith A Walker & D Disney 112: TREATwith T Dearborn 111: BABYwith S Deo & L Ferney 110: POP!with Z Frost & B Jessen 109: NO THEME 12with C Maling & N Rhook 108: DEDICATIONwith L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik 107: LIMINALwith B Li 106: OPENwith C Lowe & J Langdon 105: NO THEME 11with E Grills & E Stewart 104: KINwith E Shiosaki 103: AMBLEwith E Gomez and S Gory 102: GAMEwith R Green and J Maxwell 101: NO THEME 10with J Kinsella and J Leanne 100: BROWNFACE with W S Dunn 99: SINGAPOREwith J Ip and A Pang 97 & 98: PROPAGANDAwith M Breeze and S Groth 96: NO THEME IXwith M Gill and J Thayil 95: EARTHwith M Takolander 94: BAYTwith Z Hashem Beck 93: PEACHwith L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong 92: NO THEME VIIIwith C Gaskin 91: MONSTERwith N Curnow 90: AFRICAN DIASPORAwith S Umar 89: DOMESTICwith N Harkin 88: TRANSQUEERwith S Barnes and Q Eades 87: DIFFICULTwith O Schwartz & H Isemonger 86: NO THEME VIIwith L Gorton 85: PHILIPPINESwith Mookie L and S Lua 84: SUBURBIAwith L Brown and N O'Reilly 83: MATHEMATICSwith F Hile 82: LANDwith J Stuart and J Gibian 81: NEW CARIBBEANwith V Lucien 80: NO THEME VIwith J Beveridge 57.1: EKPHRASTICwith C Atherton and P Hetherington 57: CONFESSIONwith K Glastonbury 56: EXPLODE with D Disney 55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUSwith 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
Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 116: REMEMBER
How is memory assailed by states, by time, by the formation of institutional practices of commemoration? Alessandro Portelli once wrote that oral testimonies ‘are not always fully reliable … Rather than being a weakness, this is however, their strength: errors, …
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Tagged Alessandro Portelli, Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Kent MacCarter
Elena Gomez in as Associate Publisher
I’m honoured to announce that Elena Goomez has re-joined Cordite Poetry Review as Associate Publisher of Cordite Books.
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Tagged Elena Gomez
Submission to Cordite 113: NO THEME
We’re looking for poems that show poise and polish while aspiring to be both sonorous and audacious.
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Tagged Chris Tse, Joel Toledo
Submission to Cordite 112: TREAT
Who are you treating how? What gifts are you giving? What terms do you want to discuss or negotiate? Who or what would you like to heal or cure?
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Tagged Kent MacCarter, Tricia Dearborn
Dominic Guerrera on as First Nations Literary Editor
We are honoured to announce that Dominic Guerrea has joined Cordite Poetry Review as First Nations Literary Editor.
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Tagged Dominic Guerrera, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 111: BABY
Send us your babies. Nobody puts poems in a corner.
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Tagged Kent MacCarter, liam ferney, Shastra Deo
Submission to Cordite 110: POP!
We want poems that POP! Think pop culture, pop art, pop music, popcorn, pop rocks. Poems in the shape of a soup can. Ghazals with Bieber Fever. Sonnets with square eyes. Give us bubblegum poems. Channel-surfing poems.
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Tagged Kent MacCarter, Rebecca Jessen, Zenobia Frost
Anupama Pilbrow on as Reviews Editor
I’m honoured to announce that Anupama Pilbrow joined the Cordite Poetry Review Philippines Literature Editor.
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Erika M Carreon on as Philippines Literature Editor
I’m honoured to announce that Erika M Carreon joined the Cordite Poetry Review Philippines Literature Editor.
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Tagged Erika M Carreon, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 109: NO THEME 12
We are now up to one dozen issues where there is no theme.
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Tagged Caitlin Maling, Carolyn D Wright, Kent MacCarter, Nadia Rhook
Submission to Cordite 108: DEDICATION
This issue asks for your devotions, your gestures of esteem and affection, your hot takes on the solemn and fanatical. It delights in submissions seeking abandonment and surrender to a goal or cause.
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Tagged Kent MacCarter, Lou Garcia-Dolnik, Luke Patterson
James Jiang on as Literature Essays Editor
I’m honoured to announce that James Jiang will be taking up the helm of Literature Essays Editor for Cordite Poetry Review. His care, craft and academic nous is peerless. James Jiang is a writer, editor, and recovering academic based in …
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Tagged James Jiang, Kent MacCarter
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Get 50% off your whole order of Cordite Books titles (as supplies last, and with one copy per title).
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Tagged Kent MacCarter
Rory Green on as Games Literature Editor
I’m honoured to announce that Rory Green will be taking up the helm of Games Literature Editor, and to finally get back to using the online space and capabilities more consistently than we have the past decade.
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Tagged Kent MacCarter, Rory Green
Submission to Cordite 106: OPEN
For OPEN, we’re interested in doublings, triplicates etcetera, and/or play and suggestion.
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Tagged Cameron Lowe, Jo Langdon, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 107: LIMINAL
Liminal and Cordite are seeking poems by Asian Australian writers.
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Tagged Bella Li, Cher Tan, James Jiang, Kent MacCarter, Leah Jing McIntosh
Submission to Cordite 102: GAME
A game is an environment navigated by apparent rules and structured by invisible rules. All of these (and the game) can be broken if you know where to look.
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Tagged Jini Maxwell, Kent MacCarter, Rory Green
Submission to Cordite 101: NO THEME 10
Images courtesy of Jeanine Leane and John Kinsella. From now, and throughout 2021, we’re celebrating 25 years of publishing. Milestones include the publication of Cordite Poetry Review’s 100th issue in February, Cordite Books’ 40th print title, and the new free …
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Tagged Jeanine Leane, John Kinsella, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 100: BROWNFACE
The brownface caricature of Jonah Takalua – as created and played by comedian Chris Lilley in the television show Jonah from Tonga – has been haunting Australia for twelve years.
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Tagged Kent MacCarter, Winnie Siulolovao Dunn
Submission to Cordite 97: PROPAGANDA
Information can be propagated to divide or to unite. It doesn’t have to lie, it doesn’t even have to frame the truth.
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Tagged Kent MacCarter, mez breeze, Simon Groth
Elena Gomez on as Reviews Editor
I’m honoured to announce that Elena Gomez will be taking up the helm of Reviews Editor.
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Tagged Elena Gomez
Brendan Casey on as Cordite Scholarly Editor
I’m honoured to announce that Brendan Casey will be taking up the helm of Cordite Scholarly Editor. Casey is a doctoral candidate in the English and Theatre Studies program, University of Melbourne, researching Australian poetry and fiction through a postnational …
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Tagged Brendan Casey
Submission to Cordite 96: NO THEME IX
No theme, no rules, except for one: send us your best poems.
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Tagged Jeet Thayil, Kent MacCarter, Mindy Gill
Submission to Cordite 93: PEACH
A ripe peach may seem the embodiment of the good life, but in this issue, PEACH also stands for the bitterness of brutality as well as the richness of resistance.
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Tagged George Mouratidis, Kent MacCarter, Ling Toong, Lucy Van
