Merryn Sommerville




EKPHRASTIC Editorial: Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington

Artwork:
'Often Said Apologetically': Merryn Sommerville's Child of the High Seas

Essays:
Is Contemporary Australian Poetry Contemporary Australian Poetry? by Corey Wakeling
J S Harry's 'tunnel vision', Vicious Sydney and The Car Story by David Brooks
Ekphrasis as ‘Event’: Poets Paint Words and the ‘Performance’ of Ekphrasis in Australia by Dominic Symes

Interview:
Interview with Sidney Nolan (Ella O'Keefe edit)

And 65 new poems selected by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington:

Pyroglyphs
by Philip Gross
MRI
by Katharine Coles
The Rye
by Fiona Sampson
Naive Conviction
by Mark Yakich
The Hanged Man
by Tony Barnstone
The Voyage Home
by Jennifer Strauss
Six Dances
by Anne Boyer
Three Views of Edo
by Jan Owen
Their Soles
by Marcelle Freiman
The Claphams
by Lucy Dougan
Etruscan Love Song
by Tracy Ryan
Morris Hirshfield
by Carol Jenkins
Postscript
by Libby Hart
The Snake’s Ghost
by Amanda Joy
Ceramics, Japan
by Shane Strange
Second Launch
by Lachlan Brown
Cape Cod Quartet
by Stephen Edgar
Rooftops
by Alex Skovron
Counterpoint
by Charlotte Clutterbuck
Churnings
by Maureen Gibbons
An Extra Oyster for the Doctors
by Elizabeth Smither
Blue Poles [Number 11, 1952]
by Penelope Layland
Closed Captioning for the Black Anima
by Airea D Matthews and Ladan Osman
poems from Fortuna
by Megan Kaminski
BreakFast
by Aileen Kelly
Mona Lisa
by Carolyn Abbs
Glass Flowers
by Diane Fahey
La Passagère du 54
by John Foulcher
Botero
by Mike Ladd
Corde Pareille
by India Breen
Woman with Red Hair
by Robert Verdon
La Tempesta
by Paul Munden
The Road
by Kevin Gillam
Cows and Pulpit Rock
by Kathryn Fry
Diego’s Head
by Caitlin Maling
From Garden to Gallery
by Phillip Hall
Magnolia
by Erin Shiel
Swan River
by Renee Pettitt-Schipp
Calling All Shadows
by Charity Gingerich
Cubed
by Michelle Wallace
Narrenschiffen, a Collage Sonnet
by John Kendall Hawkins
Autumnal Cannibalism
by Kristin LaFollette
Miro’s Eyes
by Jane Frank
Interior with Figures
by Betina Telegaru
The Pioneer
by Paul Cliff
Anatomy for the Blind
by Andy Brown
APOLLON MUSAGÈTE
by Jessica L Wilkinson
Eye
by Penny O'Hara
Lament
by Sam Keenan
An Extra Oyster for the Doctors
by Elizabeth Smither
Tunnel Vision
by J S Harry
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 58.1: EKPHRASTIC
Released: 1 March 2017