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Nadia Rhook

Nadia Rhook is a writer, historian and educator, currently living on beautiful Wadawurrung Country. She's the author of boots and Second Fleet Baby, and her third history-themed poetry collection, Stone Veins, will be released by Cordite Books in 2026.

undiagnosed after moving

the brain simmering in the saucepan of the skull, hands, plunging, rescuing thoughts from uncertainty’s pureed soup it’s not that the violence is beyond words but that words are too full – their meanings mean uncounted other things as well …

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Sunset cognition

Too cruel a phenomenon? How sunsets are more spectacular when fires are burning behind them. How to deny the beauty of a blazing sunset, even when it reflects a blaze. Today I looked for you in the sunset and all …

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NO THEME 12 Editorial

We have had the honour of editing this issue as two poets with collections published and forthcoming with Fremantle Press, and invited by Kent in the spirit of ‘shining a light’ on the thriving and amorphous field and bush that might be called ‘Western Australian poetry’.

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Submission to Cordite 109: NO THEME 12

We are now up to one dozen issues where there is no theme.

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the midwife

in a tent pitched in a corner of the deck you lit wax candles soaked sponges with liquor infused hot water with chamomile and hartshorn pointed her to the stool held it still while she squatted and her baby, through …

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maar bidi: Carving Sovereignty and Desire in Indigenous Youth Storytelling

Academia has inherited a long history of non-Indigenous people speaking for Indigenous people.

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Architecture, Poetry and Impressions of a Bendigo Chinese Doctor, James Lamsey

What have architecture and poetry got to do with property? This is a core question in the poetry collection ‘signs of impression’, which explores the operation of possession in a settler colonial context.

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signs of impression

design I see iron, wrapped, to posts windows-snuggle-triangles, a hose, draped, on concrete-lion’s-prowl the verandah … keeps bricks-from-climbing grass this asymmetry keeps its rhythm main house horse way servants’ quarter cemented-lion-centre and that church over the road? isn’t far away …

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