David Prater



Cordite Ave vs. Electric Ave

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Kent MacCarter

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 …

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Sally Evans Reviews David Prater

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Sally Evans

David Prater’s latest collection Leaves of Glass is based on three years’ correspondence in the late nineteenth century between young Australian poet Bernard O’Dowd and the ageing master Walt Whitman. The epistolary material between these two men, a collection of twenty or so letters currently archived at the State Library of Victoria, forms the skeleton for this collection. Prater deftly plays with these two personae, offering a kaleidoscopic vision of their relationship alongside a number of poems that experiment with the ambiguities of written language and the shifting levels of intimacy revealed by the O’Dowd–Whitman letters.

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Comings, Goings and GUNCOTTON

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Kent MacCarter

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 …

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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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Work: A Cordite-Prairie Schooner Collaboration

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Cordite Poetry Review

Cordite is excited to announce a special collaboration with Nebraska-based literary journal, Prairie Schooner. The collaboration, entitled ‘Work’, is the first in what promises to be an exciting ‘Fusion’ series, wherein Prairie Schooner teams up with innovative journals from around …

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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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Tiny Steps: the Electr(on)ification of Cordite

Posted on December 1, 2011 by David Prater

Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have we finally broken through that invisible barrier between ‘text-based journal’ and ‘online journal of electronic literature’?

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David Prater Interviews Talan Memmott

Posted on December 1, 2011 by David Prater

Talan Memmott is Assistant Professor of digital media and culture in the Digital Culture and Communications program at Blekinge Institute of Technology and an internationally known practitioner of electronic literature and digital art with a practice ranging from experimental video to digital performance applications and literary hypermedia.

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David Prater Interviews Maria Engberg

Posted on December 1, 2011 by David Prater

Maria Engberg is a lecturer at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola in Karlskrona, Sweden, a researcher in digital media and literature and my colleague in the ELMCIP project. I caught up with her in August 2011 before she jetted off to Georgia Tech in Atlanta to undertake a semester-long teaching exchange.

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David Prater Interviews Jason Nelson

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Cordite Poetry Review

It is overly simplistic to state digital poems come entirely from building/discovering interfaces. Any artist’s creative practice is a merging/melding mix of fluid events and inspirations. But within many digital poems there is one commonality, the emphasis on interface.

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Electronica Spoken Word Mix

Posted on November 30, 2011 by David Prater

[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/Yes-I-Dream-Of-Electric-Sheep.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Collyer-_Redmond_I-do-want-it.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/McCooey_CollectiveHypnosis.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Burton-Trouble-Shooter.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Whelan_DreamMachines.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/bio_komninos.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Pravda_WeAreHere.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/The-Fire-That-Baba-Threw.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Crixus_TheNeedFeed.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/moss_myautopsy.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Jackson_Gathering.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Recipes-for-the-Disaster.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/05-My-Old-Amish-Grampa.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Gibbins_the_simple_life.mp3|titles=Yes I Dream of Electric Sheep,I do want it,Collective Hypnosis,Trouble Shooter,Dream Machines,bio,We Are Here,The Fire That Baba Threw,The Need Feed,My Autopsy,Gathering the Pieces of Your Shattered Palace,Recipes for the Disaster,My Old Amish Grampa,The Simple Life|artists=Philip Norton,Emilie Collyer & Tim Redmond,David …

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Ozko (Envoi)

Posted on November 21, 2011 by David Prater

This poem, featuring the titles of the forty poems published in Cordite 35.2: OzKo (Hanguk-Hoju), officially brings to a close Cordite’s monumental Oz-Ko issue.

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Dialogue between Australian and Korean Poets in Seoul

Posted on June 7, 2011 by David Prater

Australian poets Ivy Alvarez, Barry Hill and Terry Jaensch, accompanied by Asialink Literature Programme Officer Nicolas Low and Cordite’s Managing Editor David Prater, met with five Korean poets on 18 May 2011 in Seoul. Read a summary of the event, including excerpts from the Koreans’ poems.

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Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hanguk) is now online!

Posted on May 22, 2011 by David Prater

The task of bringing these poems to you has been nothing short of monumental. Starting with the combined efforts of twenty poets whose work was selected for this stage of the issue, followed by the Cordite editorial team’s struggles with the challenges of bi-lingual layout and formatting, and finally of course the crucial role played by our two Korean translators – 김재현 (Kim Gaihyun) and 김성현 (Kim Sunghyun) – it’s been a labour of love, and we hope you enjoy the results.

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韓 – 濠 (Oz-Ko)

Posted on May 22, 2011 by David Prater

Hangul translation by 김재현 (Kim Gaihyun)     패턴인식 알고리즘은 텍스트를 위해서이거나, 아니면 다른 숭고함을 위해 정확한 의미는 피하면서 우리에게 오직 ‘애매’한 짝을 주었다. 그래서, 이 텍스트는, 현재 연구의 목적인 “韓 – 濠” 가 절대 목적이 아니라-오히려, 흔적을 찾는 시도라는 …

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Oz-Ko (韓 – 濠)

Posted on May 22, 2011 by David Prater

Pattern recognition algorithms only give us ‘fuzzy’ matches, eschewing the exact in favour of the textual, or else the sublime. This text, then, serves as a warning that “Oz-Ko”, the present object of study, is not an object at all …

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Oz-Ko Envoy Editorial

Posted on April 1, 2011 by David Prater

When the call for submissions to Cordite’s thirty-fifth issue went out last November, it included the following ‘instructions’ for potential contributors: “For this issue, while the overarching aim is Australia-Korea relations, we instead seek works on any theme. Although works that take Korean themes as their inspiration will of course be considered, the focus is on attracting engaging, innovative, translatable and contemporary works, no matter their ostensible subject(s).”

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CCC Spoken Word Mix

Posted on October 10, 2010 by David Prater

[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/I-will-grab-their-bytes-and-they-will-secretly-not-like-it_MP3.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/02-Not-Some-Racist.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/a-text-tale.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/ladygabyandzimmerparadisefasterversion.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/Jorja-Free-Information-Poem.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/A-Night-on-the-Town.mp3,http://cordite.org.au/audio/cordite33creativecommonsyarranjenkins.mp3|titles=I will grab their bytes and they will secretly not like it,Not Some Racist,a text tale,Paradise,Free Information Poem,A Night on the Town,Creative Commons: Bastion for Utopia or Just More Creative Culture Juju?|artists=klare lanson,Paul Mitchell and Bill Buttler,klare lanson,Lady Gaby and …

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On Creative Commons

Posted on August 1, 2010 by David Prater

Welcome to Creative Commons, the thirty-third issue of Cordite Poetry Review! With this issue we celebrate ten years online!

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David Prater Interviews Ko Un

Posted on December 1, 2009 by David Prater

On a hazy autumn day in Seoul in October 2009, Cordite editor David Prater spent an all-too-brief hour with Ko Un, one of Korea's best known poets and the author of a true twentieth century epic, Maninbo [Ten Thousand Lives]. Ko Un's chief English translator An Sonjae acted as interpreter during the conversation, which ranged across various topics including silence, epic poetry and democracy in the twenty-first century.

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David Prater Interviews An Sonjae

Posted on November 24, 2009 by David Prater

Taiz, known as An Sonjae in Korean, is a retired Professor of English who has lived in Seoul for the last twenty nine years. He is also one of the foremost translators of modern Korean literature into English. David Prater caught up with him over a cup of green tea to talk about Korean poetry and society, Ko Un and the future of inter-Korean relations.

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David Prater Interviews Arjen Duinker

Posted on August 31, 2009 by David Prater

Poet, raconteur and cryptogrammer Arjen Duinker may be one of the few writers living in the Dutch city of Delft.

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Custom (First Lines)

Posted on July 1, 2009 by David Prater

The production line has not been idle take something sharp She and the fire Your lover has been made in Sri Lanka My skin pores and lets you in like He will not be delivering the Kenneth Koch memorial lecture …

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B’rel’n

Posted on December 3, 2008 by David Prater

You were a young boy yearning in parallel universes: grocery stores, parks, schools & their transplanted lawns filled with three cornered jacks & bindies. You carried paintbrushes in your pockets, wore overalls sticky with brown lacquer. Shavings from pencil ends. …

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