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Work: A Cordite-Prairie Schooner Collaboration

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite is excited to announce a special collaboration with Nebraska-based literary journal, Prairie Schooner. The collaboration, entitled ‘Work’, is the first in what promises to be an exciting ‘Fusion’ series, wherein Prairie Schooner teams up with innovative journals from around …

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Submissions for Cordite 38: Sydney extended

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite 38: Sydney will be guest-edited by Astrid Lorange, and is due online in May 2012. Out of the goodness of our hearts, and due partly to our own confusion about the correct closing date, we’ve decided to extend submissions …

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Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online and features forty new works by a whole bunch of poets who got super-excited by the opportunity to send us poems on any theme they liked. Or else, um, no theme at all. …

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Coming soon: Cordite-Prairie Schooner Fusion!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite is very excited to be involved in US journal Prairie Schooner’s Fusion series; in fact, we’re the first cab off the rank, with a special WORK co-feature due online in February 2012. The feature will include fifteen poems from …

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HNY 2012 to our contributors and readers

Posted on January 5, 2012 by David Prater

On behalf of the Cordite editorial team and the world’s bison population, I’d like to wish all of our contributors and readers a (belated, but) happy new year, and a glorious 2012! I hope that the new year brings you …

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Simply the Best: Cordite’s 2011 Top Thirty

Posted on December 31, 2011 by David Prater

Well, this is starting to look like a tradition. We’re proud to present the fourth installment of the Cordite Top Thirty, following humbly in the footsteps of 2008, 2009 and 2010, this time with added bonus commentary. Oh yes, it’s …

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Submissions now open for Cordite 38: Sydney

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

We invite submissions for Cordite 38 on the theme of ‘Sydney’. Given that Cordite was founded in Sydney in 1997, we think that now is a good time to revisit our roots, and what better way to do that than …

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Cordite 36: Electronica is now online

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

Image: Maxine Clarke, ‘Poelectronica’ (detail) We’re over the moon to announce that Cordite 36: Electronica is now online. Join our guest poetry editor Jill Jones as she navigates the blips and beets of the electronic(a) universe. Featuring: New Poetry Editor: …

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Cordite seeks a new Managing Editor

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

*PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VOLUNTARY POSITION* Cordite Poetry Review is Australia’s premier online poetry journal. Over the past decade, Cordite has published thirty full issues (and ten mini-issues) online, featuring hundreds of Australian and international poets. In addition to …

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About our Oz-Ko (Hanguk-Hoju) translators

Posted on August 6, 2011 by David Prater

Cordite 35.2: Oz-Ko (Hanguk-Hoju) features forty new works by contemporary Korean (Hanguk) poets translated into English. These translations have been provided by Chung Eun-Gwi and Brother Anthony of Taizé.

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35.2: Ozko (Hanguk-Hoju) is now online

Posted on August 6, 2011 by David Prater

We believe that this special issue of Cordite Poetry Review represents an ideal opportunity for Korean works to be read by an international audience, and for Korean audiences to read Australian poets in Hangul is, in our opinion, also exciting. We hope therefore that you will enjoy reading the contents of the issue.

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Poetry Republic of Korea

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite Poetry Review, together with the Asialink Writing Program and the Korea Language Translation Institute, is bringing four of Korea’s best-loved poets to Australia later this month.

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Submissions now open for Cordite 37: No Theme!

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

We know some of you have been champing at the bit to send us some of your amazing new works but now the wait is over – submissions for our thirty-seventh issue are now open! Yays!

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2001-2011: A Screenshot Odyssey

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

As mentioned just now, Cordite has now been online for a decade, and in that time, we’ve published 2,000 posts, including over 1,000 poems, hundreds of reviews and feature articles and an assortment of ephemera so eclectic it makes Brian Eno’s discography sound like one long drone.

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Cordite’s two-thousandth post!

Posted on July 7, 2011 by David Prater

I’ve been wanting to write this post since I first started out as editor of Cordite in 2001. Now, ten years later, I’m happy (nay, ecstatic!) to announce that this is the two-thousandth post to be published on the Cordite site! Whichever way you look at it, that’s a whole lot of untold.

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