32: ZOMBIE 2.0

Poetry Editor Ivy Alvarez
Released 1 April 2010
Index of Poems
Cover Image: Katerina Sakkas

We went back to the future for our thirty-second issue, revisiting ZOMBIE (2003). Why? Well, It was a chance to pay homage to the issue of Cordite with the most braaaiins, so who needs any further excuse?




deep in richmond

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Duncan Hose

deep in Richmond among the rank

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Zombie Sex

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Jayne Pupek

zombie sex is an anomaly

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Dead Eroticism and the Zombie Body

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Lara S. Williams

In a society obsessed with youth and health, it seems impossible that bodies of death and decay could even illicit physical curiosity, let alone attraction, but perhaps it is our sexual desire to be inside another human being that leads us to such visceral fascination with a body's insides.

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Toward a State of Symbiosis

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Arlene Ang

The living heart must answer to the undead mouth.

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polliloquy 2

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Michael Farrell

well here i am in the, wars again,

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Theories of Zombie Lap Swimmers

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Christine Swint

Zombies can smell the essence of lack.

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The Vegetarian Zombie

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Emilie Zoey Baker

he attacks crispers, drinking the black juice from dead fridges.

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The Way of Zombies

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Jayne Pupek

saturated with excrement and blood

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The Lungs Themselves

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Mathew Abbott

You will hear

in the expanding lungs.

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Some Bad Life

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Arlene Ang & Valerie Fox

The first three years aren't separated into months, more like meals.

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We Took Their Zombies

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Fiona Wright

Your zombie calls, and you answer it

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Eat My Secrets

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Tricia Dearborn

peculiar hunger

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silverware

Posted on April 1, 2010 by suzanne jones

spoon knife fork spoon knife knife

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Missing Girl, 1986

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Jayne Pupek

in an upstairs room, and she moves towards it, famished.

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How She Changed Her Diet

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Arlene Ang

Skeletal remains

around the sofa indicate that she has run out

of children.

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