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Poetry Editorial: Kent MacCarter & Shane Rhodes

Canadian Essays: Best Isn’t a Beauty Contest: How Canadian Poets Demand More of Verse by Sonnet L'Abbé and Investigative Poetry: Are Poets the New Reporters? by Anita Lahey

Australian Essays: Against Colony Collapse Disorder; or, Settler Mess in the Cells of Contemporary Australian Poetry by Ann Vickery, Reclaimed Land: Australian Urbanisation and Poetry by Bonny Cassidy, and Australian Ecopoetics Past, Present, Future: What Do the Plants Say? by John Charles Ryan

How Poems Work: How Poems Work: Kate Fagan's 'Through a Glass Lightly: Cento for Beginners' by Jacqueline Turner, How Poems Work: Elizabeth Bachinsky's 'God of Unfulfilled Longings' by Lucy Van, and How Poems Work: Nora Gould’s ‘While he waited for the school bus’ by Matthew Hall

Artwork: Four Works by Kelly Richardson and Two Works by Kim Adams: Autolamp and Breughel-Bosch-Bus Detail

Blog: Introduction to Essays on The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2014 by Jenny Haysom and Kevin Matthews Connects with Spoken Word Poet Tanya Evanson

And a sequence of 48 new poems selected by Zenobia Frost and Kent MacCarter:

Always Already Ahead
by Sina Queryas
Atomino
by Derek Beaulieu
Carport
by Jeramy Dodds
Somebody makes a decision.
by Aisha Sasha John
XVIII
by Sonnet L'Abbé
Run with the Creeps
by Nick Thran
On Reason
by Sandy Pool
Orphan
by Jordan Abel
Iphigenia’s Crossing
by Larissa Lai
God of Unfulfilled Longings
by Elizabeth Bachinsky
Scars
by Katherena Vermette
Programme
by Garry Thomas Morse
To My Suicidal Husband
by Priscila Uppal
Curtains
by Stuart Ross
Opening: From the Balcony
by Jenny Sampirisi
Pig Heart
by Sue Sinclair
Lesson 12
by Colin Fulton
Absence
by Jacqueline Turner
Grieving
by Susan Ioannou
Sarcophagus (1986)
by Stephanie Bolster
Clairefontaine
by Susan Glickman
Finishing Salt
by Tanya Evanson
Blue to Red
by John Barton
from This Poem Book 2
by Adeena Karasick
37 Look at Heaven
by C R Avery
Guns and Words
by Garry Gottfriedson
Map
by Margaret Christakos
Commerce
by David Seymour
My Education as a Poet
by Sharon Thesen
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 48.1: CANADA

Released: 1 December 2014