Submission to Cordite 111: BABY

By , and | 30 May 2023

Send us your babies. Nobody puts poems in a corner. Send us your succession. Stories you won’t tell the kids that you’ll [never] have. Send your sacrificial lambs, darlings for the slaughterhouse, send fawns fed from the manger where divine miracle sleeps, tender and mild. Send us your tenderness. Your babies spoken only after dark. Send end, send apocalypse, forget the Child at the perpetual horizon of every acknowledged politics.

We’ll have you know we were assigned baby at birth. Send us what makes sense of all this mess.

We would take everything. But we can’t.

This podcast sheds some insight on how Cordite Poetry Review (and Cordite Books) works.

Submission to Cordite 111: BABY closes 11.59pm Melbourne time Sunday, 20 August 2023.

Please note:

  1. The guest editor(s) has sovereign selection choice for all poems submitted.
  2. Masthead editors will also contribute to the issue.
  3. We will only read submissions sent during our official submission periods.
  4. 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.
  5. We are not able to offer feedback on individual poems.
  6. Submissions will only be accepted via Submittable …

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Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her second book, The Exclusion Zone, was recently published by University of Queensland Press. She is still living.

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Liam Ferney's most recent collection Hot Take (Hunter Publishing) was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. His previous volumes include Content (Hunter Publishing) and Boom (Grande Parade Poets). He is a public affairs manager, poet and aspiring left-back living in Brisbane with his wife and daughter.

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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).

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