24.0: COMMON WEALTH

Poetry Editor Claire Gaskin
Released 2006
Index of Poems
Contributor Notes

Common Wealth (2006), released in the aftermath of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and guest-edited by Claire Gaskin, features new poems by sports-mad Australian and international poets including Kris Hemensley, Carol Jenkins, Aileen Kelly, Todd Swift and Diane Fahey!




Victoria Ramsay: Santiago Circus

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

In a sand casino we devour the sun standing like two dimensional cut outs spinning roulette under a three hundred degree rainbow. I leave friends orbiting the night. Neon lights with cues push me into traffic's deafening rune where subways …

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Victoria Ramsay: London Town

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

Hooded boys frisk the sidewalk, somersault gutters or stand around swinging bats. The paper seller at Angel listens to “Do the Locomotion”. Tourists hog footpaths, stray across Queensway. They feel safe in less hurried postcodes. Windows here won't open. Praed …

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Dessert

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Vernyce Dannells

Vernyce Dannells lives and writes on Maui. Her work has appeared in numerous international literary magazines. Cadenza Press published a chapbook, Temporarily Abated, in spring 2006.

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Uzeyir Lakman CAYCI: I was in these pages

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

Without making you feel at all In lands very distant from you I raised flowers which you like I know I left you by yourself With unforgettable memories… Every so often You felt uneasy Because of my badly digested words …

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Todd Swift: Commonwealth

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

Not that I lied, or wasn't myself – I don't know myself enough to tell – but tried to do things with words, alter events – like the hero at the plane crash who drags the pilot from the agitated …

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Terry Collett: It Is All Waiting For The Still Repose

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

It is all waiting for the still repose, The nightly kiss on a bended knee, Half wit to half woo The girl and the angry fool, Brow beaten by a swollen moon, And the crafty sun blazing Like a blushing …

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Simon West: Seed Eyes 1

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

Simon West is a poet and teacher in Italian Studies. He lives in Melbourne. His first collection, First Names, will be published by Puncher and Wattmann in September.

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Shannan Rodda: LITTLE responsibilities

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

Shannan Rodda lives on the Mornington Peninsula. She is currently studying Professional Writing and Editing at Tafe and is currently working on her first novel.

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Sebastian Gurciullo: try color

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Sebastian Gurciullo

Sebastian Gurciullo has been co-editor of and contributor to textbase since its inception in 1998. His most recent publications include Marginal Text through textbase publications (2004) and concrete pieces in Unusual Work No.2 (2005). He works as a curator of online exhibitions at Public Record Office Victoria, where he is also editor of Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria.

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Sebastian Gurciullo: drain on the public purse

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Sebastian Gurciullo

Sebastian Gurciullo has been co-editor of and contributor to textbase since its inception in 1998. His most recent publications include Marginal Text through textbase publications (2004) and concrete pieces in Unusual Work No.2 (2005). He works as a curator of online exhibitions at Public Record Office Victoria, where he is also editor of Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria.

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Rebekah Moon: lament

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

Rebekah Moon is a 27 year old Arts graduate, now studying education. She lives with her husband and two cats on the edges of suburbia and a National Park.

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Paul Mitchell: Until

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Paul Mitchell

Paul Mitchell is a Melbourne poet. He has published one collection, Minorphysics (IP 2003), and has another due out in April 2007 through Five Islands Press. Visit his website.

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