CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 119: FIT
Released: 15 February 2026

ESSAYS

Emilie Collyer
FIT editorial

Thursday, February 12th, 2026

How would people respond to the word fit? Not as many sports poems as I’d thought. But hundreds of brilliant interpretations. Too many to fit in the issue. Choosing is difficult. The poems start to form a landscape. They fit together and don’t fit.

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REVIEWS

Angela Meyer reviews Louis Armand and Sarah Temporal

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Louis Armand’s Infantilisms and Sarah Temporal’s Tight Bindings (both Puncher & Wattmann, 2024) are disparate collections which overlap in their ability to make the parts speak for the whole. Armand’s, in a resistant, disjointed way — allowing the reader to locate cultural, social, historical webs and associated meanings, or just stray off onto rich tangents of their own. In Temporal’s, we’re more gently guided, with its through lines of fairytale, nature (in its various forms), the body, birth, and concepts of girl, daughter, mother, woman.

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INTERVIEWS

‘To be a child is to be human’: Abbra Kotlarczyk in conversation with Ender Başkan

Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Ender and I first met during a brief encounter at a mutual friend’s house exhibition in Brunswick East, Naarm/Melbourne, well over a decade ago. My oldest kid is now 9, so I know it was more than ten years ago, but often the timelines blur into these loose categories of ‘before’ and ‘after’: the before and after of having babies, of writing poetry again, and of understanding the meaning of the word ‘oxytocin’ in this new, rapturous way.

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SCHOLARLY

Thomas Moran
Beyond The Warp: Occult Poetics in H D and Robert Duncan

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

Modernist poetry has a fascination with occult knowledge. It is prevalent in American poet Robert Duncan’s unclassifiable book on Hilda Doolittle, the poet known as H.D. (1886-1961).

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GUNCOTTON BLOG

Alex Creece and Lou Garcia-Dolnik
Lou Garcia-Dolnik on as Interviews Editor

Sunday, February 1st, 2026

We are delighted to welcome Lou Garcia-Dolnik as Interviews Editor at Cordite Poetry Review. Lou will join our longstanding Interviews Editor, Autumn Royal.

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