- 114: NO THEME 13with J Toledo & C Tse 113: INVISIBLE WALLSwith A Walker & D Disney 112: TREATwith T Dearborn 111: BABYwith S Deo & L Ferney 110: POP!with Z Frost & B Jessen 109: NO THEME 12with C Maling & N Rhook 108: DEDICATIONwith L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik 107: LIMINALwith B Li 106: OPENwith C Lowe & J Langdon 105: NO THEME 11with E Grills & E Stewart 104: KINwith E Shiosaki 103: AMBLEwith E Gomez and S Gory 102: GAMEwith R Green and J Maxwell 101: NO THEME 10with J Kinsella and J Leanne 100: BROWNFACE with W S Dunn 99: SINGAPOREwith J Ip and A Pang 97 & 98: PROPAGANDAwith M Breeze and S Groth 96: NO THEME IXwith M Gill and J Thayil 95: EARTHwith M Takolander 94: BAYTwith Z Hashem Beck 93: PEACHwith L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong 92: NO THEME VIIIwith C Gaskin 91: MONSTERwith N Curnow 90: AFRICAN DIASPORAwith S Umar 89: DOMESTICwith N Harkin 88: TRANSQUEERwith S Barnes and Q Eades 87: DIFFICULTwith O Schwartz & H Isemonger 86: NO THEME VIIwith L Gorton 85: PHILIPPINESwith Mookie L and S Lua 84: SUBURBIAwith L Brown and N O'Reilly 83: MATHEMATICSwith F Hile 82: LANDwith J Stuart and J Gibian 81: NEW CARIBBEANwith V Lucien 80: NO THEME VIwith J Beveridge 57.1: EKPHRASTICwith C Atherton and P Hetherington 57: CONFESSIONwith K Glastonbury 56: EXPLODE with D Disney 55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUSwith M Chakraborty and K MacCarter 55: FUTURE MACHINES with Bella Li 54: NO THEME V with F Wright and O Sakr 53.0: THE END with P Brown 52.0: TOIL with C Jenkins 51.1: UMAMI with L Davies and Lifted Brow 51.0: TRANSTASMAN with B Cassidy 50.0: NO THEME IV with J Tranter 49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH with M Hall and S Seita 49.0: OBSOLETE with T Ryan 48.1: CANADA with K MacCarter and S Rhodes 48.0: CONSTRAINT with C Wakeling 47.0: COLLABORATION with L Armand and H Lambert 46.1: MELBOURNE with M Farrell 46.0: NO THEME III with F Plunkett 45.0: SILENCE with J Owen 44.0: GONDWANALAND with D Motion 43.1: PUMPKIN with K MacCarter 43.0: MASQUE with A Vickery 42.0: NO THEME II with G Ryan 41.1: RATBAGGERY with D Hose 41.0: TRANSPACIFIC with J Rowe and M Nardone 40.1: INDONESIA with K MacCarter 40.0: INTERLOCUTOR with L Hart 39.1: GIBBERBIRD with S Gory 39.0: JACKPOT! with S Wagan Watson 38.0: SYDNEY with A Lorange 37.1: NEBRASKA with S Whalen 37.0: NO THEME! with A Wearne 36.0: ELECTRONICA with J Jones
Adrian Wiggins
The Sydney Launch of Harkin, Gibson, Loney and Hawke
OBJECT: Australian Design Centre, Thursday 25 June, 2015 I’m pleased to say that I was at the launch of the very first issue of Cordite Poetry Review, way back in 1997. Good heavens, is that eighteen years ago? The journal …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Adrian Wiggins, Alan Loney, John Hawke, Kent MacCarter, Natalie Harkin, Peter Kirkpatrick, peter minter, Ross Gibson, Zoë Sadokierski
Cordite Ave vs. Electric Ave
I rediscovered these images from the Cordite vault this morning. Real photographs printed on photo paper. These were taken by David Prater in the final gasps of the 1990s I believe. Although the Cordite Ave (as threaded through Melbourne’s outer …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Adrian Wiggins, David Prater, Kent MacCarter, peter minter
At the Darling Harbour Convention Centre
At the conference lunch the industry chatterboxes turn a gavotte, then prop and scythe about the buffet loading up pot roast, pumpkin salad, rendang. Says the keynote speaker bignoting counterflow down the queue: “Hey I’m on the Be More Biodynamic …
Posted in 49: SYDNEY
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Comings, Goings and GUNCOTTON
There is only one appropriate way to begin my first news post as Managing Editor of Cordite – that being to extend, then extend further, then possibly dislocating my e-arm in extending further still, a massive thank you (for all …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Adrian Wiggins, Ali Alizadeh, David Prater, editors, Emilie Zoey Baker, Emily Stewart, GUNCOTTON, Kent MacCarter, Matthew Hall
Blinkie ‘Bill’ O’Malley: The fête
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.” – Carl Jung Let me start by saying you are unstable. Eight deaths in eight days. At the home you thought you’d send your mum to. …
Posted in 42: CHILDREN OF MALLEY II
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Blinky ‘Bill’ O’Malley: F#!* Yeah
“And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment…” — Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra At the outset, let me just say this: this poem has Tourette’s — it wanted to be …
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Blinky ‘Bill’ O’Malley: Dithyrambs of Dennis
If I had any ambition I’d make you a bouillabaisse in the Provençal in St Marks Square. To create intimacy in the poem, I turn up the volume & this piece conforms to an emergent post-OMGWTFBBQ cast in acrylic in …
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Tagged Adrian Wiggins
Blinky ‘Bill O’Malley: Arts & Crafts
“… you can’t have art without resistance in the material.” — William Morris Ah, don’t feel guilty about the GM soy in the baby formula— those activists are arsehats & breastfeeding zealots & it’s unpiloted drones dropping in on …
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Blinky ‘Bill O’Malley: Love Story Metabolites
Dear Nuala, oh noes, you’ve left your starting-a-new-life job in the bait’n’ice for that no-hoping armed & dangerous escapee again!? It’ll just lead to headlines: Fantasist poses as playboy & Headless body in topless bar you & …
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When I met you in the hall
When I met you in the hall you were all inclement weather on a stony coast and you held my hand as though we were more than we could be: preppy kids in a pop-song duet retrofitting dignifying deniable half-truths …
Posted in 40: CREATIVE COMMONS
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Adrian Wiggins: After The Party
About the face she's photovoltaic. “There's marriage to make men lecherous,” she says, “I see it all the time in characters like you.” Still, a casual mention of the yacht by Lion Island sends her into a lather. She's dramatic; …
Posted in 32: MULLOWAY
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Flannery O’Malley: Bitter William
Flannery O'Malley was born in 1971 in a slab hut near Sassafras in the Turpentine Range. He attended the local school at Nerriga, but left at 15 after getting a job with a ride operator at the Braidwood Show. He then toured the state working at all the big shows — Bathurst, Dubbo, Cobar. He was killed tragically last year when a hydraulic ram failed on the Crazy Mouse Spinning Coaster at the Mudgee Show. This poem was found in his papers.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
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[the open plain, or mesa]
Sometimes, when you're a cowboy gunslinger, all you're left with is your boots and hat and lariat, your trick paint horse, your Colt and your Winchester, your bedroll, the open plain, or mesa, the tins of beans and strips of …
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Tagged Adrian Wiggins
A Climber’s Farewell
Satellites really knock me out, the way they join the dots, the way a carpet-trader deep in the Soud calls his uncle Faisal at the Moore Park Supa Centa, the way a called-up beleaguered Little League coach calls in an …
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71 Monaro
Adrian Wiggins was one of the founding editors of Cordite.
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