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, 2025) was shortlisted for the 2026 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for Nonfiction.
Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kangaru) is a poet, editor, producer, weaver, researcher and educator who lives on unceded Wangal whenua. Her debut poetry collection is
Mettle (UQP) and her editorial work includes
Woven (Magabala Books),
Whisper Songs (UQP),
Solid Air: Australia & NZ Spoken Word (UQP) and she guest co-edited
Cordite 116: Remember alongside Micaela Sahhar. Te Whiu is the recipient of the Varuna - Cove Park International Fellowship 2026.
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).
