Image by Annette Willis


Poetry Editorial: Fiona Wright and Omar Sakr

Essays:
The Organising Mind: Discipline and Austerity in Jackson Mac Low and Art After 1960 by A J Carruthers
Virginia Woolf’s Incidental Pilot, Marianne Wex’s Legroom and the Dancing Man by Meredith Wattison
John Forbes’s ‘Miraculous Fluidity’ by Corey Wakeling
Extimate Subjects and Abject Bodies in Australian Poetry by Michelle Cahill


Artworks:
Remnants: 12 Photographs by Annette Willis

Interviews:
Christy Dena Interviews Eric Zimmerman
Aden Rolfe Interviews Eliot Weinberger

Blog:
On a Hot, Wet, Kinky Evening in Fortitude Valley by Sam Wagan Watson

Translations:
Six Poems by Najwan Darwish by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Omar Sakr
Ten Poems by Joan Brossa by Cameron Griffiths
Three Self-translations in Three Languages by Marilyne Bertoncini
Five Poems by Vahe Arsen by Ofelya Suqiasyan and Aram Arsenyan

New Reviews:
Michael Aiken reviews Duncan Hose
Gareth Morgan reviews Love, Sex and Death in the Poetry of Bolesław Leśmian, Translated by Marcel Weyland

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And a sequence of 48 new poems selected by Omar Sakr and Fiona Wright:

Orange–delicious
by Elizabeth Allen
Gas Deity
by Ed Wright
Rune
by Anthony Lawrence
Freeway
by Sanna Peden
Return
by Chris Lynch
Horse Preamble
by Ania Walwicz
Focus Pulling
by Shane Strange
Hey Preacher.
by Charlotte Guest
Mollusc
by David Morris
Marrickville
by Louise Carter
Dunce
by Carol Jenkins
Resort Town
by Judith Beveridge
People
by Matthew Jenkins
Handbrake
by Alison Gorman
Humid Mirror
by Martin Kovan
Criminal Thoughts
by Jane Downing
Mutton-birds
by Emily Crocker
Haul.
by Izzy Roberts-Orr
Ode to the L90
by Tessa Rose
Precede Me
by Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
Build-up
by Phillip Hall
The forgotten mountain
by Maria McMillan
The Cake is Done. I’m Finished.
by Heather Taylor-Johnson
Our Father
by Aidan Chafe
Realness in the Mountains
by Justin Wolfers
Trousers
by Aviva Shifreen
She meant vegan, of course
by Melinda Kallasmae
The Instinct of Sharks
by Vanessa Page
Lovers of Valdaro
by Samantha van Zweden
Blackberry Caliphate
by Rico Craig
The Change Room
by Andy Jackson
Done
by Madelin Newman
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 54.0: NO THEME V

Released: 4 May 2016