18: ROOTS

Poetry Editor Liam Ferney
Released 2004
Index of Poems

We were pleased to announce that Cordite came of age with our 18th issue online! As befits this new maturity, #18: Roots (2004) contains a whole party bus of poems, with one responsible driver (Liam Ferney). Check out new works by Vernyce Dannells, Emily Finlay, Kate Fagan, Alan Wearne, Joel Deane and moooooore!




Nick Whittock: india vs australia 03/04

Nick Whittock lives in an ideal world where cricket prevails.

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I ‘member

Born in Chicago, Vernyce is a first generation, mixed
heritage triplet. Before moving to Hawaii, she alternated
between coasts most of her professional life, but remembers
a challenging adolescence spent in Milwaukee's inner city
- in the same streets/times that became the arena of
sixties riots and later, a cannibal's picnic grounds for
Jeffrey Dahmer.

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David W. McFadden: A Very Calm Demeanour

“I tore up all the other letters today tho there is one smart kid called Dave McFadden who says: 'Now when Spring comes along, as does every year, she drabs my melting heart with her warm lily-fragrant message: of the budding eucalypti on the Riviere du Loup highway, and the greening of the grass' … ach I can't type it, but its good. So long.”
             -JACK KEROUAC, FROM A LETTER TO ALLEN GINSBERG, JANUARY 4, 1960
These poems are taken from Five Star Planet (Talonbooks, 2002).

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David W. McFadden: A Little Kindness

“I tore up all the other letters today tho there is one smart kid called Dave McFadden who says: 'Now when Spring comes along, as does every year, she drabs my melting heart with her warm lily-fragrant message: of the budding eucalypti on the Riviere du Loup highway, and the greening of the grass' … ach I can't type it, but its good. So long.”
             -JACK KEROUAC, FROM A LETTER TO ALLEN GINSBERG, JANUARY 4, 1960

These poems are taken from Five Star Planet (Talonbooks, 2002).

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Emily Finlay: grass

Emily Finlay is in her final year of a Bachelor of Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong, NSW. She hopes to one day complete a PHD in the study of literature. She loves poetry: sometimes reading it more than writing it. The ideal would be to combine both.

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Kate Fagan: Robertson Panegyrical

Kate Fagan's The Long Moment is available from Salt Publishing.

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Kate Fagan: Single Line Poem

Kate Fagan's The Long Moment is available from Salt Publishing.

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Alan Wearne: Girls on the Avenue

Read Alan Wearne's “My Old Man's A Groovy Old Man”, from our Driver issue.

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Adam Aitken: Lament: the Chicken Rice Hawker, Penang

Adam Aitken is the author of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles (Brandl and
Schlesinger). He is now completing an unreliable (fictionalised) memoir
about his parents.

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Luke Beesley: N

Luke Beesley is a young Brisbane writer of poetry and short fiction. He has published widely in journals and newspapers including ABR, Southerly, The Canberra Times & The Australian. He has just completed his first manuscript of poetry with the assistance of an Arts Queensland Major Grant, and is currently studying for an M.Phil (Creative Writing) at the University of Qld. He likes cricket and jazz.

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Luke Beesley: Fin de Siecle

Luke Beesley is a young Brisbane writer of poetry and short fiction. He has published widely in journals and newspapers including ABR, Southerly, The Canberra Times & The Australian. He has just completed his first manuscript of poetry with the assistance of an Arts Queensland Major Grant, and is currently studying for an M.Phil (Creative Writing) at the University of Qld. He likes cricket and jazz.

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rob mclennan: credo

rob mclennan is a prolific poet, editor, publisher, etc. his 9th trade collection of poetry is “what's left” (Talonbooks, 2004), & another, “stone, book one” is forthcoming this fall with Palimpsest Press. the editor of, among others, “Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003), he currently lives in Ottawa, Canada's glorious capital. He often says things on his clever blog – www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

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