14: ZOMBIE

Poetry Editor Terry Jaensch
Released 2003
Index of Poems

Cordite 14: ZOMBIE was originally released in 2003 (check out the original issue index over at the NLA’s Pandora archives). Zombies and poets make for strange bedfellows, we know. Nevertheless, years after the fact, we can’t help but notice a similarity between the speckled pule of Zombie and later manifestations of zombie shuffles, movies with braaaains and all-round gore.




Adam Ford: First Incision

Posted on August 3, 2003 by Adam Ford

BIO: Adam Ford is the author of a novel called Man Bites Dog, a collection of poems called Not Quite the Man for the Job, a zine called Jutchy Ya Ya and at least one comic called The Lives and Times of Jerry the Nerky Lizard. He also edits Going Down Swinging. Today he made a cartoon of a bouncing ball and it excited him so. Visit his homepage.

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Ian McBryde: Alongside

Posted on August 2, 2003 by Cordite Poetry Review

There is no grip stricter than history. The bare bed, the light turned out too soon. Where the stairs end. A tired nightnurse doing half-hearted rounds past mostly empty cots. Unfillable stillnesses. The absence of hands on us. The vacant …

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Ian McBryde: Fever Dreams

Posted on August 2, 2003 by Cordite Poetry Review

Canadian-born Ian McBryde has been well-published both in Australia and many countries overseas. His fourth collection of poetry, Equatorial, was published 2001, and he has just released his second CD of spoken-word, entitled The Still Company. His next collection of poetry, Domain will be released by Five Islands Press in 2004.

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Justin Lowe: Eurydice

Posted on August 1, 2003 by Cordite Poetry Review

Justin Lowe has published three collections of poetry, one novel, and had songs recorded by artists as diverse as The Whitlams, The Impossibles and Sydney jazz diva Lily Dior. He writes reviews for the award-winning Red Room Radio Project.

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Christopher Mulrooney: art critic

Posted on July 30, 2003 by Cordite Poetry Review

Christopher has had poetry, fiction, translations & photographs in Combo, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, Janus Head, Savoy, Renditions, Retort, and is the author of notebook and sheaves.

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Simon Hall: Elude

Posted on July 27, 2003 by Cordite Poetry Review

Simon has had poems published in Verandah, Meanjin, Westerly, Visible Ink, cordite (6&7) and Going Down Swinging, and a couple of radio plays broadcast on Radio National.

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Paul Magee: Chapter 7

Posted on July 24, 2003 by Cordite Poetry Review

Paul Magee is a poet, essayist and logician. His first book, From Here to Tierra del Fuego, a work of surrealist anthropology, was published in 2000. As well as poetry and short stories, he has also published on Filipino liberation theology, the poetry of Octavio Paz, Marxist theory and psychoanalytic logic.

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Jen Crawford: Request

Posted on July 21, 2003 by Cordite Poetry Review

Jen recently returned to Auckland after eight years in Wollongong and Sydney. Her collection Admissions was published in 2000, in the Five Islands Press New Poets Program.

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Paul Mitchell: Sarah Connor’s Last Ride

Posted on July 18, 2003 by Paul Mitchell

Paul Mitchell lives in Melbourne and his collection, Minorphysics, will be released by IP in October 2003. He is also a contributing editor of Cordite.

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Stephen Kelen: Buffy

Posted on July 17, 2003 by S. K. Kelen

S.K. Kelen's most recent book is Goddess of Mercy (Brandl & Schlesinger).

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Arlene Ang: Dangers of Spilled Ink

Posted on July 16, 2003 by Arlene Ang

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy and works as a freelance translator and web designer. She also edits the Italian Niederngasse. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Paumanok Review, Sometimes City, Eclectica, Tryst and Megaera.

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