http://cordite.org.au Australian poetry and poetics Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:44:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://cordite.org.au/reviews/review-short-julie-chevaliers-darger-his-girls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-short-julie-chevaliers-darger-his-girls http://cordite.org.au/reviews/review-short-julie-chevaliers-darger-his-girls/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:50:25 +0000 Jessica Alice http://cordite.org.au/?p=24966 Henry Darger’s reputation as an outsider artist – and the questions of morality lingering around his dark paintings – has inspired recent exhibitions, books, plays and a documentary. Julie Chevalier’s poetic biography Darger: his girls (subtitled a sequence of poems about the life of Henry Darger 1892 – 1973) has come at peak-Darger fever. Chevalier includes an introduction, familiarising us with the debate about what kind of man Henry Darger really was: child murderer, or misunderstood loner? The latter explanation is explored throughout this work.]]> http://cordite.org.au/reviews/review-short-julie-chevaliers-darger-his-girls/feed/ 0 http://cordite.org.au/essays/viidikas-leves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=viidikas-leves http://cordite.org.au/essays/viidikas-leves/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:30:48 +0000 Kerry Leves http://cordite.org.au/?p=24965 http://cordite.org.au/essays/viidikas-leves/feed/ 1 http://cordite.org.au/guncotton/it-was-a-place-of-force-re-reading-the-poems-of-ariel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-was-a-place-of-force-re-reading-the-poems-of-ariel http://cordite.org.au/guncotton/it-was-a-place-of-force-re-reading-the-poems-of-ariel/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:47:31 +0000 Jacinta Le Plastrier http://cordite.org.au/?p=24953 So much has happened to poetry since Sylvia Plath completed her last poems fifty years ago in 1963 that it might seem weird or regressively sentimental to focus back on them. But, encouraged to do so by a number of anniversary events around the globe this year, what strikes is the endurance of these final poems’ brutal clarity.]]> http://cordite.org.au/guncotton/it-was-a-place-of-force-re-reading-the-poems-of-ariel/feed/ 0 http://cordite.org.au/reviews/beesley-balance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beesley-balance http://cordite.org.au/reviews/beesley-balance/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:06:36 +0000 Ella O'Keefe http://cordite.org.au/?p=24941 The poems in Luke Beesley’s Balance, like Siobhan Hodge’s work in Picking Up The Pieces, tend towards brevity (with a few exceptions). In Hodge’s case we might consider this quality in relation to fragments, where the body and the reader’s attention is cut-up. Reading Beesley, the encounter is one that is instead cut-off – that is to say that this is poetry attuned to the momentary and to the sensing body moving through the world.]]> http://cordite.org.au/reviews/beesley-balance/feed/ 0 http://cordite.org.au/reviews/hodge-picking-up-the-pieces/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hodge-picking-up-the-pieces http://cordite.org.au/reviews/hodge-picking-up-the-pieces/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:05:09 +0000 Ella O'Keefe http://cordite.org.au/?p=24939 Picking Up the Pieces is a compact debut of eight poems from West Australian poet Siobhan Hodge. Its publisher, Wide Range Chapbooks, is a Cambridge based small press run by John Kinsella. Wide Range publishes poets such as Redell Olson, Rob Mengham and Drew Milne mixed in alongside young and emerging local poets, many of them students like Hodge (who in 2012 undertook a research residency in Cambridge). The collegial spirit of Wide Range and the relatively modest production values – Hodge’s book comes stapled in a photocopied card cover – suggests a publishing model that favours immediacy and ease of circulation, in a town where poetry and thinking are a constant activity.]]> http://cordite.org.au/reviews/hodge-picking-up-the-pieces/feed/ 0 http://cordite.org.au/reviews/meyer-rodriguez-lucy-kinsella/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meyer-rodriguez-lucy-kinsella http://cordite.org.au/reviews/meyer-rodriguez-lucy-kinsella/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:01:35 +0000 Angela Meyer http://cordite.org.au/?p=24945 Judith Rodriguez’s The Hanging of Minnie Thwaites and Niall Lucy’s and John Kinsella’s The Ballad of Moondyne Joe are informative poetic explorations of the historical figures Frances Knorr, known as Minnie Thwaites, and Joseph Bolitho Jones, known as Moondyne Joe. The books are explorations and not interpretations, as the authors are aware of the trappings of context, of interpreting fragments of text from the past according to one’s own contemporary values. Of course, this is not completely avoidable and the postmodern notion of avoiding an authoritative account is itself, arguably, a condition of context.]]> http://cordite.org.au/reviews/meyer-rodriguez-lucy-kinsella/feed/ 0 http://cordite.org.au/essays/introducing-no-theme2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introducing-no-theme2 http://cordite.org.au/essays/introducing-no-theme2/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 15:30:22 +0000 Gig Ryan http://cordite.org.au/?p=24907 http://cordite.org.au/essays/introducing-no-theme2/feed/ 0 http://cordite.org.au/essays/unaustralian-english/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unaustralian-english http://cordite.org.au/essays/unaustralian-english/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 15:29:13 +0000 Oscar Schwartz http://cordite.org.au/?p=24576 http://cordite.org.au/essays/unaustralian-english/feed/ 0 http://cordite.org.au/essays/recording-archives-way-with-words/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recording-archives-way-with-words http://cordite.org.au/essays/recording-archives-way-with-words/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 15:27:34 +0000 Carol Jenkins http://cordite.org.au/?p=24656 A Way with Words, a weekly radio program showcasing contemporary Australian poetry. In all, 106 episodes (each of around five minutes) were produced. Presented here is a chance to listen in on six gems from the archives vault – some of my favourites, chosen for the most part because they are impossible to find elsewhere as audio. A Way with Words was broadcast weekly by ArtSound in Canberra, picked up by Ozwrite on the National Community Radio Network, Dover Road Radio broadcasting from the Isle of Wright in the UK, 2KRRR Community Radio in Kandos and 3RRR in Melbourne.]]> http://cordite.org.au/essays/recording-archives-way-with-words/feed/ 0 http://cordite.org.au/interviews/shane-rhodes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shane-rhodes http://cordite.org.au/interviews/shane-rhodes/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 15:25:34 +0000 Matthew Hall http://cordite.org.au/?p=24910 Queensland Poetry Festival is thrilled to welcome award-winning Canadian poet Shane Rhodes as the 2013 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence. Since the residency program began in 2005, Queenslanders have had the pleasure of hosting an international poet for three months each year, bringing their ideas and creative energy to inform, influence, and engage fellow poets.]]> http://cordite.org.au/interviews/shane-rhodes/feed/ 0