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 an Australian-Palestinian writer, researcher and educator. Her poetry, commentary and essays have appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit and Sydney Review of Books among others She is a Next Chapter fellow (2021) recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Grant (2022) and was commended for the Peter Blazey prize (2024). Her first book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: an encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family (NewSouth) was released in May 2025.
Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa) is an Australian-born Māori with ancestral ties to Te Rarawa iwi in Hokianga, Aotearoa NZ. She is a full-time freelance writer, editor, cultural producer, and weaver. In 2024 she edited
Woven (Magabala Books) and her debut poetry collection is titled
Mettle (UQP, 2025).
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).
