We're pleased to announce that Cordite 31: EPIC is now online, featuring new works by forty contemporary poets including Mani Rao, Sue Stanford, Louis Armand, eddy burger, Benito di Fonzo, Libby Hart and Bev Braune, plus a selection of audio poems.
As our guest poetry editor Ali Alizadeh suggests in his editorial for the issue, the idea of the Epic is alive and well in contemporary poetry. We're also thrilled to be able to present essays, interviews, reviews and illustrations in this issue. Big thanks to Kay Rozynski for her work as features editor, and to Emilie Zoey Baker for her audio selections.
Shortly we'll be announcing some Post-Epic features, as well as themes and special issues for 2010 and beyond. Until then, we hope you enjoy reading our new issue – it was surely Epic in the making! Access the full contents of the issue by clicking on the link above, or just this big old image here:
Hey Ali and contributors,
Just dipped in a hypnotised hand, tilted an ear at Cordite this morning but clearly this is going to be an Ali Baba's cave of literary riches. Michelle Leber's seductive Yellow Emperor poems, the intriguing review by Libby Hart of Dorothy Porter's The Bee Hut, the marvellous Maxine Beneba Clarke on song in Rumourmill – all outstanding. Great congratulations on the continuing evolution of a treasure trove of contemporary poetry and critique. Ya slaaam.
Thanks, Jen, as ever!