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Notes on Five Canadian Small (micro) Publishers
The Five: Apt. 9 Press, The Emergency Response Unit, AngelHousePress, Nomados Literary Publishers and Greenboathouse Press Canada has had a wide array of small literary publishers over the past few decades. Most notably, the small press explosion in the 1960s …
Guest Editorial: An Introduction to Sydney
tinned wildlife tins with fat & jelly to make up the weight total sight now nothing eaten but earthfood vegetables fruit we eat some mushroom & hallucinate high on abstractions & a distance of mountains we start a colony the …
Blustertown
SYDNEY. It’s aqueous. Shiny. Shifty. Stupid. Braggart. Gorgeous beyond measure. Cruel. Exorbitant. A geist that puts hooks in where you do your hardest wanting. The town’s biggest fools are those who come from elsewhere and fall in love with it when they’re young. As a rule, these fools fall …
Posted in CHAPBOOKS, FEATURES Tagged Gig Ryan, John Forbes, Kenneth Slessor, Ross Gibson, Ruth Park, sydney Leave a commentFour Artworks by Kim Rugg: People, Places, Bad Boy and Just Passing Through
With surgical blades and a meticulous hand, Kim Rugg dissects and reassembles newspapers, stamps, comic books, cereal boxes and postage stamps in order to render them conventionally illegible. The front page of the LA Times, for example, becomes neatly alphabetized …
‘Xerographesis’: On Poetic Art and the Object in Amanda Stewart and Anne Tardos
Realism seems very S and M in its desires – Amanda Stewart, ‘Poetry Ideas’ What I write, as I have said before, could only be called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it. – Marianne …
Text Is Immediate: Five Artworks by Vernon Ah Kee
Text is immediate. If there’s something you want to say – write it. – VAK Vernon Ah Kee’s work is primarily a critique of Australian popular culture, specifically the Black/White dichotomy that locates itself in his work. His text-based installation …
These Living Walls of Jet: Visiting the Open Houses of Poetry
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will. from Czeslaw …
The Quickening Art of Jazz Poetry
‘if you’re in this higher condition and you’re performing, something transcends the music and reaches inside of someone else… someone gets it, they leave and do their thing. Then something comes out of their mouth they didn’t intend to say, …
Sound, Rhythm and Meaning: A Pacific Northwest Chapbook Curated by David Wagoner
Featuring poetry by Lillo Way, Jacqueline Haskins, Jeremiah O’Hagan, Marie Hartung, Robert Hoffman, Leone Mikele and David Wagoner. American poetry has never been more diverse in form, content, and intention than it is today. All imaginable styles and mannerisms are …
Posted in CHAPBOOKS, FEATURES Tagged American poetry, David Wagoner, Jacqueline Haskins, Jeremiah O'Hagan, Leone Mikele, Lillo Way, Marie Hartung, Robert Hoffman 1 CommentLittle Magazines Exemplars: A Companion Piece to ‘To Anthologize the Now Perpetually’
There simply is no easily had “brief record” of modern and contemporary little magazines held by the University at Buffalo’s Poetry Collection; even if we were to divide by era, geography, or special interest—there are, after all, over 9,000 such …
Posted in FEATURES Tagged Edric Mesmer, Literary Magazines, Little Magazines, Small Press 2 CommentsAustralian Print Poetry and the Small Press: Who’s Doing the Books?
The smaller a room, the tidier it must be. – Jim Carroll One of many pressing concerns for small publishers in Australia is simply this: are there enough buyers to consume their print runs? The question begets three subsequent concerns. …
To Anthologize the Now Perpetually: The Literary Situation of the Small Press and the Archive
“The little magazine is not difficult to define,” write David Miller and Richard Price: it is an anthology of work by strangers; an anthology of work by friends; an exhibition catalogue without the existence of the exhibition; a series of …
Posted in FEATURES Tagged Edric Mesmer, Literary Magazines, Little Magazines, publishing, Small Press 1 CommentResident Strides: Small Press Poetry in the United Kingdom
The small-press scene is vast and multifarious. So, I’d rather discuss an exciting sub-scene with great authority, than the entire thing ignorantly. In recent years several unfunded, but economically viable, publishers have emerged, and they are more interested in promoting …
So long – and thanks for all the poetry!
This issue of Cordite Poetry Review is my last as Managing Editor. After eleven years I feel that the time has come for renewal and fresh energy. Therefore I’m also very pleased to announce, after a lengthy selection process, that …
Posted in BLOG ARCHIVES, EDITORIAL Tagged David Prater, editing, Kent MacCarter, site news 17 CommentsLiner Notes: Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album was released thirty years ago, in 1982. Twenty-four years after that iconic moment in the history of urban American folk, Liner Notes debuted at the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival with a spoken word tribute to David …
Posted in 37.1: NEBRASKA, EDITORIAL Tagged bruce springsteen, liner notes, nebraska, sean m. whelan, work Comments Off
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