BLOG ARCHIVES

This is where we formerly posted announcements on various subjects including but not limited to upcoming themes, submission dates, amusing stories and diversions. Check out our new GUNCOTTON blog for more Internet goodness!




So long – and thanks for all the poetry!

Posted on February 15, 2012 by David Prater

This issue of Cordite Poetry Review is my last as Managing Editor. After eleven years I feel that the time has come for renewal and fresh energy. Therefore I’m also very pleased to announce, after a lengthy selection process, that …

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Cordite 37.1: Nebraska is now online

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Released in conjunction with the Cordite-Prairie Schooner co-feature, Cordite 37.1: Nebraska is a tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album, presented by Sean M. Whelan and Liner Notes. Contributors include Neil Boyack, Josephine Rowe, Omar Musa, Gabriel Piras, Samuel Wagan Watson, …

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An interview with Benito Di Fonzo

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Born into an Irish-Italian working class family in Sydney’s inner west, journalist, playwright, poet and performer Benito Di Fonzo has written for, and been profiled by, the best and worst of publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun Herald, …

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An interview with M. F. McAuliffe

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

M. F. McAuliffe was born and educated in Adelaide and Melbourne, and holds an Honours degree in English and some graduate stuff in photography and anthropology. She has taught technical writing, media analysis and basic TV production to engineering and …

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Submissions for Cordite 38: Sydney extended

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite 38: Sydney will be guest-edited by Astrid Lorange, and is due online in May 2012. Out of the goodness of our hearts, and due partly to our own confusion about the correct closing date, we’ve decided to extend submissions …

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Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online and features forty new works by a whole bunch of poets who got super-excited by the opportunity to send us poems on any theme they liked. Or else, um, no theme at all. …

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Coming soon: Cordite-Prairie Schooner Fusion!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite is very excited to be involved in US journal Prairie Schooner’s Fusion series; in fact, we’re the first cab off the rank, with a special WORK co-feature due online in February 2012. The feature will include fifteen poems from …

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HNY 2012 to our contributors and readers

Posted on January 5, 2012 by David Prater

On behalf of the Cordite editorial team and the world’s bison population, I’d like to wish all of our contributors and readers a (belated, but) happy new year, and a glorious 2012! I hope that the new year brings you …

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Simply the Best: Cordite’s 2011 Top Thirty

Posted on December 31, 2011 by David Prater

Well, this is starting to look like a tradition. We’re proud to present the fourth installment of the Cordite Top Thirty, following humbly in the footsteps of 2008, 2009 and 2010, this time with added bonus commentary. Oh yes, it’s …

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Submissions now open for Cordite 38: Sydney

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

We invite submissions for Cordite 38 on the theme of ‘Sydney’. Given that Cordite was founded in Sydney in 1997, we think that now is a good time to revisit our roots, and what better way to do that than …

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Cordite 36: Electronica is now online

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

Image: Maxine Clarke, ‘Poelectronica’ (detail) We’re over the moon to announce that Cordite 36: Electronica is now online. Join our guest poetry editor Jill Jones as she navigates the blips and beets of the electronic(a) universe. Featuring: New Poetry Editor: …

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Cordite seeks a new Managing Editor

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

*PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VOLUNTARY POSITION* Cordite Poetry Review is Australia’s premier online poetry journal. Over the past decade, Cordite has published thirty full issues (and ten mini-issues) online, featuring hundreds of Australian and international poets. In addition to …

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About our Oz-Ko (Hanguk-Hoju) translators

Posted on August 6, 2011 by David Prater

Cordite 35.2: Oz-Ko (Hanguk-Hoju) features forty new works by contemporary Korean (Hanguk) poets translated into English. These translations have been provided by Chung Eun-Gwi and Brother Anthony of Taizé.

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35.2: Ozko (Hanguk-Hoju) is now online

Posted on August 6, 2011 by David Prater

We believe that this special issue of Cordite Poetry Review represents an ideal opportunity for Korean works to be read by an international audience, and for Korean audiences to read Australian poets in Hangul is, in our opinion, also exciting. We hope therefore that you will enjoy reading the contents of the issue.

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Poetry Republic of Korea

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite Poetry Review, together with the Asialink Writing Program and the Korea Language Translation Institute, is bringing four of Korea’s best-loved poets to Australia later this month.

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