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About our Oz-Ko translators …
Cordite 35.1: Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hangul) features forty new works by contemporary Australian (Hoju) poets translated into the Korean language (Hangul). These translations have been provided by 김재현 (Kim Gaihyun) and 김성현 (Kim Sunghyun), both of whom I was lucky enough to meet during the Cordite tour of Seoul in May 2011. Here’s a few words about each of them …
Can Cordite haz multimedia workz?
While we’ve now closed submissions for both text and audio works, there’s still one way in which you can contribute to Cordite 36: Electronica – namely, by sending us your multimedia works! That’s right, all your codez are belong to us.
Posted in NEWSBLOG Leave a commentConversations with Yi Sang
Yi Sang was a twentieth century Korean experimental poet. Conversations With Yi Sang is a project aspiring to question established modes of engaging with legacy, memory, and the ideas of monument or memorial through the development of an events program in a building where Yi Sang once lived, and which is to be redeveloped into a Yi Sang memorial house.
Cordite 35.0: Oz-Ko Envoy is now online
Well, we resisted the temptation to post this message yesterday, as we’re sure many of you would have taken it for an April Fools joke, but we can confirm with a straight face that we’ve now published the first part of our thirty fifth issue, Oz-Ko: Envoy. Have at it!
Send us your audio poemz!
Eagle-eyed readers will no doubt have noted this already but for the rest of us, the good news is that in addition to the special call for submissions to our thirty-sixth issue, Electronic(a), we are now seeking submissions of audio poetry in mp3 format that address the Electronic(a) theme.
Posted in NEWSBLOG Leave a commentSubmissions for Cordite 36: Electronic(a) are now open!
We’re drop-dead excited to announce that submissions for Cordite 36: Electronic(a) are now open! Electronic(a) will appear online in August 2011 and will be guest-edited by Jill Jones.
Posted in NEWSBLOG Leave a commentRevealed: true identities of the Children of Malley II (4)
Sharp-eyed readers will already have sensed a change in the force here at Cordite HQ, and with good reason, for we have finally discovered the true identities of the remaining so-called Children of Malley II, and have rigorously updated and corrected the contributor notes for the issue accordngly.
Posted in NEWSBLOG Leave a commentRevealed: true identities of the Children of Malley II (3)
The continued persistence of a number of clearly-falsified poems by a somewhat greater though equally dubious number of so-called ‘Children of Malley‘ shocks us as much as it appears to have shocked our resident detectives and commentators.
HNY | 새해 복 많이 받으세요
여러분 성탄절 잘 보내고 새 해 복 많이 받으세요! Seasonal greetings and a happy new year to all of our friends – readers, contributors, editors, subscribers and lurkers alike! We look forward to bringing you more fresh poetry than ever …
Simply the Best: Cordite's 2010 Top Thirty
Following in the grand tradition of Simply The Best: Cordite’s 2008 Top Thirty and Simply the Best: Cordite’s 2009 Top Thirty, please peruse at your leisure our celebration of the top thirty posts on the Cordite website for 2010, courtesy of the erstwhile Wordpress stats pluginamijig.
Posted in NEWSBLOG Leave a commentChildren of Malley II: No News Is Good News, Right?
As those of you who may have been following activities on the site would already know, some of the contributors to our current issue have now been unmasked, while others remain stubbornly Malleyised!
Posted in NEWSBLOG Leave a commentRevealed: true identities of the Children of Malley II (2)
Well, the faux-Malley domino effect is certainly starting to manifest itself. Just two days ago we were reeling in shock at the revelation that the names of some of the contributors to Children of Malley II in fact bore no relation whatsoever to the names under which their poems appeared.
Posted in NEWSBLOG Leave a commentRevealed: true identities of the Children of Malley II (1)
Having spent so much time and effort verifying the identities of the contributors to Children of Malley II, it gives me great pain to admit that we, just like poor old Max Harris, have been duped. Again.
Posted in NEWSBLOG Leave a commentWho are the Children of Malley II?
The task of selecting and verifying the contributors to this issue was one that we did not really relish. The fact remains that even half a century after the fact, a lot of information relating to the Ern Malley affair remains under wraps or else so confused and contradictory as to send literary journal editors mad.





