20: SUBMERGED

Poetry Editor Liam Ferney
Released 2004
Index of Poems

For our 20th issue, Submerged (2004), we decided to get completely under it. Subterranean poets battle it out in the deeps, diving to discover hidden treasures and strange, transparent sharks. Okay we made up the bit about the transparent sharks. There’s a trawler’s worth of poetry here, selected once again by Liam Ferney.




David W. McFadden: Akwesasne Lightning

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Cordite Poetry Review

“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

This poem is taken from Five Star Planet (Talonbooks, 2002).

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Arlene Ang: Portrait in Blue

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Arlene Ang

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she handles the Italian edition of Niederngasse (http://www.niederngasse.com). Her poetry has recently been published in Mississippi Review Online, Eclectica, Verse Libre Quarterly, Poetry Midwest and Red Booth Review. Stirring has recently nominated her poem, “House of Correction” for the 2004 Pushcart Prize.

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Mark Pirie: Kool notes, for you

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Cordite Poetry Review

Mark Pirie was born in Wellington in 1974. He is the Managing Editor for HeadworX, a small press publisher of poetry/fiction. His poems have been published in India, New Zealand, Australia, Croatia, the US and the UK. In 1998 University of Otago Press published his anthology of ?´Generation X' writing, The NeXt Wave. He is an editor of JAAM (New Zealand), the contributing New Zealand editor for papertiger, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Antipodes (USA) and the committee of the Wellington International Poetry Festival (NZ). Salt Publishing, Cambridge, England, has recently published his new and selected poems, Gallery: A Selection.

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joanne burns: perspex at noon

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Joanne Burns

joanne burns is a sydney writer. her latest collection of poetry is 'footnotes of a hammock' [Five Islands Press 2004].

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joanne burns: ring

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Joanne Burns

joanne burns is a sydney writer. her latest collection of poetry is 'footnotes of a hammock' [Five Islands Press 2004].

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joanne burns: story board

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Joanne Burns

joanne burns is a sydney writer. her latest collection of poetry is 'footnotes of a hammock' [Five Islands Press 2004].

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Louise Oxley: Fossil

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Cordite Poetry Review

Louise Oxley lives in Hobart. Her poems have been published widely in Australian journals. Louise's first collection, Compound Eye, was published in the Five Islands Press New Poetry Series No.9 in 2003. It was commended in the Anne Elder awards for a first book of poetry. Recent prizes also include the Tom Collins Poetry Prize.

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Luke Beesley: On Studying the Traditional Form

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Luke Beesley

Luke Beesley writes poetry and short fiction, and his work has been published widely in Australian newspapers and literary journals including ?´The
Australian Book Review', ?´The Australian' & ?´Southerly'. In 2004/2005 a suite of his poems will appear on the Brisbane City Council rates notice envelope, a public art commission from Brisbane Water. He is currently studying for an M.Phil (Creative Writing) at the University of Queensland. He lives in Brisbane.

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Janet Reinhardt: from Urban Truths

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Cordite Poetry Review

Janet Reinhardt lives in the Blue Mountains above Sydney and has published poetry in journals throughout Australia and in the US. She is currently completing an MA in Literature and Writing over the net through Deakin University.

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William Fox: after 1979

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Cordite Poetry Review

William Fox is soon to start a PhD in English at Melbourne University. His work has been published all over the shop; in 'Meanjin', 'Overland', 'Slope', 'The Age', etc.

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Nick Whittock: spin

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Nick Whittock

Nick Whittock lives in an ideal world where cricket reigns supreme.

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Ouyang Yu: Reading Dana Gioia, wrongly that is

Posted on December 7, 2004 by Ouyang Yu

Ouyang Yu is a poet and novelist based in Melbourne, Australia; visit his website.

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