How is memory assailed by states, by time, by the formation of institutional practices of commemoration?
Alessandro Portelli once wrote that oral testimonies ‘are not always fully reliable … Rather than being a weakness, this is however, their strength: errors, inventions, and myths lead us through and beyond facts to their meaning’.
What are the bigger truths beyond facticity and how is the present enriched and unsettled by what we REMEMBER?
This podcast sheds some insight on how Cordite Poetry Review (and Cordite Books) works.
Submission to Cordite 116: REMEMBER closes 11.59pm Melbourne time 2 February 2025.
Please note:
- The guest editor(s) has sovereign selection choice for all poems submitted.
- Masthead editors will also contribute to the issue.
- We will only read submissions sent during our official submission periods.
- Please place up to three (3) poems in one (1) Word, RTF or PDF document (unless specifically noted otherwise for special issues), with no identifying details in the document itself.
- We are not able to offer feedback on individual poems.
- Submissions will only be accepted via Submittable …
Micaela Sahhar is is an Australian-Palestinian writer, researcher and educator. Her current scholarly and creative projects relate to narrative appropriation and the recuperation of narrative in settler-colonial contexts. Her scholarly articles have appeared in journals and edited books. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the Age, Southerly, Overland, the Conversation, New Matilda, Magazine 28 and Arena Magazine. She was commissioned to contribute to the UTS gallery exhibition Cloud Studies: Forensic Architecture (Responses to the Clouds) in 2020, and was a guest co-editor of Rabbit 34 “Reportage” in 2021 with Kent MacCarter. She is a current holder of the Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship.
Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa) is a writer, weaver and senior producer at Red Room Poetry. In 2019 she co-edited Solid Air: Australia and New Zealand Spoken Word and recently edited Tony Birch’s Whisper Songs. Her writing has been published in Ora Nui, Te Whē, Tupuranga, Sport, Cordite, Rabbit, among others.
Kent MacCarter is director of Cordite publishing Inc., publisher of Cordite Books and managing editor of
Cordite Poetry Review. He is the author of four poetry collections –
In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009),
Sputnik's Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014), California Sweet (Five Islands Press, 2018) and Fat Chance (Upswell Publishing, 2024).
