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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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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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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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Shastra Deo and Liam Ferney want to have your babies.

Submission to Cordite 111: BABY

Send us your babies. Nobody puts poems in a corner.

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2023 Queensland Poetry Val Vallis Award Winners

Without prior consultation, this poem rose to the top of each of our shortlists; it was unquestionably our winner.

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What We’re Not Going To Talk About

I. Mother The tv is too loud for me to talk over the top of after a day of teaching but it is a vexation to my mother’s spirit if I ask her to turn it off. Or even down. …

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Cordite Poetry Review

Fragments on the Myth of Cy Twombly

after Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus (1962) There’s no myth yet about his birth, except Lexington is a military town. Later: chariots, battles. His father was a White Sox pitcher. His father was an Italian ceramicist. Drafted into the …

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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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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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Submission to Cordite 109: NO THEME 12

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

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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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Before You Go

The other night I had a dream about Esther being loved-up at a party with her ex. When I woke in the middle of night I thought something like life is a window through which I look which I thought …

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2022 Queensland Poetry Val Vallis Award Winners

Introducing the 2022 Queensland Poetry Val Vallis Prize winners.

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The Botanist

Moving on from the north in the new millennium, with rolls of film, a sure eye and a crate of seedlings, Veronica settled herself in Fitzroy; strewn with leaves shaped like Canada, and symbols of the eco conscious, bullied into …

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Aduantas

If dolphins could fly as good as they swim we’d experience things like dolphin shadows whenever we went to the ground to resolve our undone shoelaces. This absence, too, is a shape they don’t teach you at business school. You …

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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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Get 50% off your whole order of Cordite Books titles (as supplies last, and with one copy per title).

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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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Unsung

For Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert, 24 October 1956 to 13 July 2019. I think I might see you when I walk out this morning along the street we used to share. Winter is bleak in Kambera. Icy winds off the mountains, …

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Call me by true names

For Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert, 24 October 1956 to 13 July 2019. In this valley, generations of glistening gums reach skyward Roots reaching deep, Holding earth I imagine lying here Warmed by a fire Billy tea, some damper My dog and …

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KRG Poets Award 2022

In partnership with FNAWN, we are proud to publish the winning poems from the 2022 KRG Poets Award. The award honours the life and creative work of Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert.

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Submission to Cordite 106: OPEN

For OPEN, we’re interested in doublings, triplicates etcetera, and/or play and suggestion.

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Submission to Cordite 107: LIMINAL

Liminal and Cordite are seeking poems by Asian Australian writers.

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