25: GENERATION OF ZEROES

Poetry Editor alicia sometimes
Released 2006
Index of Poems
Contributor Notes

Generation of Zeroes (2006) features new works by a whole bunch of digitally cool poets including Carol Jenkins, Derek Motion, Jill Jones, Joel Deane, Klare Lanson and more! Our guest poetry editor and chanteuse extraordinaire alicia sometimes balances the ones and the zeroes, with an excellent assortment of poems.




Trisha Kotai-Ewers: Tashi

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

Tashi sits at the side of the stage in the bamboo chair. A monk in golden robes on a blood red seat. Tashi sits on stage in his cell in Tibet the pages of his magazine scattered in his head …

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Tiggy Johnson: Acid wash

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Tiggy Johnson

          I saw Pete Thompson thirty-four days ago and can't shake the image from my mind. He didn't look much different to the days when I learned to hate him ?± except the beer gut. His blond hair had lost the …

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Timothy Barbon: looking happy

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

and it's just morning but warm already they're looking for scraps they're snacking on the leftovers two dogs on the train tracks. clack! it's a sedan on the crossing it's been smacked up the back by a station wagon and …

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Tara Motherwell: Slow News day

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

The teapot, once dropped from a two storey window, now skated down the street on tiptoes.  

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Stuart Cooke: Kimberley @ Sunset

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Stuart Cooke

 

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rob walker: The truth about everything

Posted on November 29, 2006 by rob walker

expressed digitally the answer to everything                                  is one. or nothing.  

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Peter O'Mara: things that I would like to tell my son

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

the word sky is a physical background to many birds with small eyes & 1000 flights & the collective skin of all memories is journeyless when compared with dream & Dylan Thomas & silence & yesterday I confused buoyancy with …

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Peter O'Mara: th[e] broken

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

the broken wings   of spent birds, flying until overweight with pollution & a closing sky                               th broken promises      that saw a short, dry cleaned pedestrian questioning his small existence                                                                                            only later,                                                                 a reduction in afternoon                               the broken child   confused in a   mix master of …

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Nathan Shepherdson: the square root of a full stop is the square root of 64

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Nathan Shepherdson

1st answer a man walks through the door picks up a broom and sweeps all the heads into the corner he is paid to clean the factory floor of memory and as he appears to us he will vanish as …

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Monica Carroll: écrivain in the capital

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

 

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Maria Zajkowski: Species counterpoint

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Maria Zajkowski

Last night a few stars came into our room and the moon in a dark suit sifted through my washing. I watched as dreams performed above your head little snowstorms in a night-bubble. Through your body a tide came and …

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Maria Zajkowski: Colour 1962 – 2003

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Maria Zajkowski

Somewhere in the colour of sleep is a shade of you. I listen but you're long into the night already. The horse I ride sweats yet we barely cover the length of our echo through the tableland of this nocturnal …

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