In celebration of our impending 30th issue (and as a subtle way of reminding you, once again, that submissions for CUSTOM/MADE are now open), here's the lowdown on Cordite's thirty most popular posts for the past twelve months, courtesy of the WordPress stats plugin thingo.
Trivikrama Kumari Jamwal: Judith Wright in Jammu
Gus Goswell reviews Les Murray
Derek Motion: Michael Dransfield's Innocent Eyes
Deb Matthews-Zott reviews Peter Skrzynecki
Zoe Dattner: The Greeting Card Writers
Nick Powell reviews Robert Hass
Sarah Manguso: Address to Winnie in Paris
Kay Rozynski: Seven Secret Cities
Lucina Kathmann: Destination Kurdistan
Klare Lanson: GDS 27 Spoken Word Feature
Angela Meyer reviews Alison Croggon and Lucy Holt
Gus Goswell reviews LK Holt and Elizabeth Campbell
David G. Lanoue: Welcome to Haikunaut
Leanne Hills: Moving Galleries on Melbourne's Trains
Pam Brown reviews Miriel Lenore
Philippa Meadows: conversation
David Prater interviews John Leonard
Cool. There's some great work on show there. What a joy it was to see Jen Jewel Brown in there. Her work is favourite of mine and many other people too. It's nice how “Best Australian Poems…” is up the top. The google machine can do some crazy magic things with its algorhythm beyond human understanding.
I agree Paul – some great works, and some stuff that's many years old! The Judith Wright piece and Zoe Dattner's article, for instance, have both been popular on the site for a long time. Then along comes Stuart's Pastoral editorial, in December 2008, and pips them all! I'm glad 'Who invented poetry' got a look in, though. You wouldn't believe how many people reach this site looking for an answer to that question.
David
Yes, I saw that and that the discussion was closed which was a pity. I wanted to jump in with both feet flailing as usual, poetry exists as a form of memory, originally sound of speech to assist recall and gradually as a cultural memory and on and on I wanted to go surfing the mighty wave of Kanagawa,