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.




Joel Deane: Hansard

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

(Transcript of the maiden speeches of John Howard, Tony Abbott and Peter Costello) Australia and Australians / there is no limit to what Australia can / refute / achieve / There is no limit to what Australia can / compromise …

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Jill Jones: Sedition

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Jill Jones

Music is the calm of a bracelet, girdle, helmet inside words don't matter I've found no terror in the package the song contains there's a type of blue it resembles, one not grown ancient the patina was freedom or something …

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Jennifer Arthur: the zero manifesto

Posted on November 28, 2006 by jen arthur

Zero And infinity I enter my generation Conceived, spurted, swelled belly, and birthed Into an atmosphere more polluted than the last Indivisibly chemical signatures Tap along my nerve endings Thalen that make women of boys Pregnant women wash your hair …

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Jeff Crouch: Hamlet by a Turing Machine

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

Mathematicians, their brains being discrete state machines, can only employ an algorithm. Gödel’s theorem tells us that no algorithm can coincide in every case with truth-seeing, and so the algorithm is bound sometimes to fail. But if it is accepted …

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Greg McLaren: Writers Festival Pastoral

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Greg McLaren

The room hovers with translucent light reflected from the ferries' harbour. Seats float, awash with the voices of well-known, but not major, Canadian poets. Stubby tops of pylons plug the water, a template of equidistant spacing, like a competent set …

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Greg McLaren: Bronwyn Bishop in The Hunt for Red October

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Greg McLaren

When she proudly claims to be the “only Member of Parliament ever to go down all night on a submarine”, murderous impulses arise in the mind of the Buddhist tulku Steven Seagal.  

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Elena Knox: The Muckrakers

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

meat secret safe with me pig slopped more gravy and ends but this pig is prize gets the tender hearts, ripped from bodies and legs in farmyard fellow skinship also fat and brains for more fat and more brains this …

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Derek Motion: barcode 9 311532 071002

Posted on November 28, 2006 by derek motion

i solved it late one afternoon.          all the numbers shifted from stereogram revealing coded expression:           rightwing political discontent. damn freedom of information collectors      like daleks emerged with faux-stealth gutting any life from this phenomena.                  surprise.        all the best (really seditious) numbers then went on tour     rocking …

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David Prater: Exes & Zeroes

Posted on November 28, 2006 by David Prater

sing/ a song of/exes & zeroes/ just one/ now down a maple lane/we walk/together/talk of breaking up/getting back together/forever/never whatever /slam doors/ walking through them/ first glances/second go/ looks that kill or maim/ circumstance/rhythms/ return home/clothes/off or on/unanswered calls/ last …

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Carol Jenkins: Dispossession

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

the years of collection, walls nacreous from hoardings, a paper codex, squirrelings, till each room, a labyrinth of the past, teeters ceiling to floor with extracted life, objectified, amassed, meant, grows out to clog the doors packs down the hallway, …

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Alessandro Porco: A Day at the Beach

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Cordite Poetry Review

I admit to an afternoon of margaritas but swear it, swear I did see hot-damn Helios, with expertise only a God could hold, bring his fast-flying quadriga to a full-stop, with the lightest squeeze on his chariot's reins. Stopped on …

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