Four poems from the past three issues of Cordite Poetry Review have been included in Best Australian Poems 2012 edited by John Tranter.
Congratulations go out to Josephine Rowe for Atlantic City (Cordite 37.1), Cameron Lowe for Turkey in the Drawer (Cordite 38), Mark Roberts for Cameraman (Cordite 39) and Tiggy Johnson for Photograph (Cordite 39) … and the guest poetry editors who selected them the first time around.
Kent MacCarter is a writer and editor in Castlemaine, with his wife and son. He's the author of three poetry collections –
In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009),
Sputnik's Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014) and California Sweet (Five Islands Press, 2018). He is also editor of
Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home (Affirm Press, 2013), a non-fiction collection of diasporic memoir. He is managing editor of
Cordite Poetry Review and publisher of Cordite Books.
