Submission to Cordite 110: POP!

By , and | 10 March 2023

We want poems that POP! Think pop culture, pop art, pop music, popcorn, pop rocks. Poems in the shape of a soup can. Ghazals with Bieber Fever. Sonnets with square eyes. Give us bubblegum poems. Channel-surfing poems.

Elegies for Kylie’s gold hot pants. Villanelles for Villanelle. Odes that taste of Cherry Chapstick. Juxtapose the Yang to your Grey. Give us cantos that dance it out. Poems with the same three chords.

Oops, I enjambed (again). Hold me closer, tiny stanza. Say yes to the stressed vowel! Enter the Meme Cinematic Universe (MCU). Is this … a poem? A Q Continuum quatrain? Broken rhyme’s back — all right.

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

Submission to Cordite 110: POP! closes 11.59pm Melbourne time Sunday, 21 May 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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Zenobia Frost is a writer based in Brisbane. Her most recent poetry collection, After the Demolition (Cordite Books), won the 2020 Wesley Michel Wright Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. In 2020, she edited Art Starts Here, a book on the history of Metro Arts theatre and, in 2021, debuted an interactive installation at Dots+Loops Festival with Timothy Tate.

https://zenfrost.itch.io/

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Rebecca Jessen is the award-winning author of verse novel Gap (UQP, 2014) and poetry collection Ask Me About the Future (UQP, 2020). Ask Me About the Future was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and commended in the Anne Elder Award. Rebecca is currently a PhD candidate at Queensland University of Technology.

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Kent MacCarter is publisher of Cordite Books and managing editor of Cordite Poetry Review. 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).

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