Marikit Santiago | Coca-Colanised (2011) | oil and pyrography on found cardboard | 94cm x 128cm.


PHILIPPINES Editorial: Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta and Shirley O Lua

Artwork:
14 Works by Marikit Santiago

Memoir:
Migration and Melancholia and Settler Discontentment by Angela Serrano
Phenomenological: Musings on Contemporary Filipino Poetry by Ramon Loyola

Review:
Lucy Van Reviews Merlinda Bobis

And 33 new poems selected by Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta and Shirley O Lua:

The Day of the Three Thousand Flowers
by Noelle Leslie dela Cruz
Agua de Viuda
by Jhoanna Lynn Cruz
Style
by Cirilo F Bautista
Fireball
by Isidoro Cruz
That Space of Writing
by Gémino H Abad
Aftermath
by Michael Carlo Villas
The Messy Living Room
by Clesencio Rambaud
Farol de Combate
by Marjorie Evasco
Absence
by Alfred Yuson
Reclamation
by Jasmine Nikki Paredes
Codex
by Mikael de Lara Co
Cause or Consequence
by Lawrence Bernabe
Why this Isn’t a Haiku
by RayVi Sunico
Children of Homeland
by Mohammad Nassefh Macla
I Higaonon
by Telesforo Sungkit Jr
WAR: Marawi Siege
by Christine Godinez Ortega
A Momentry
by Myrna Peña Reyes
The Spectator
by Jose Jason Chancoco
Less than, Equal to, Greater than
by Rodrigo Dela Peña Jr
Living Room
by Ulysses Aparece
ɫ i b a w
by Ricardo M de Ungria
Photo, Circa 1982
by Merlie Alunan
Sestina for Street-side Sorrow
by Carlomar Arcangel Daoana
The story, you think, is around
by Allan Justo Pastrana
Siquijor
by Elsa Martinez Coscolluela
Paleontology
by Victor Sugbo
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 85: PHILIPPINES
Released: 1 March, 2018