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Submissions now open for Cordite 37: No Theme!

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

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!

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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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 …

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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.

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Conversations 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.

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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!

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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.

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Submissions 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.

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Revealed: 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.

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New Twitter layout?

We quite like it, actually:

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Revealed: 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.

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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 …

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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.

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Children 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!

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