- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with 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
Kent MacCarter
Introduction to Debbie Lim’s Bathypelagia
The poems in Debbie Lim’s Bathypelagia are wonders of animacy and transformation. As the title suggests, Lim plumbs depths with these poems, taking readers to the deep ocean, and fathoming the nocturnal hours.
Posted in INTRODUCTIONS
Tagged Debbie Lim, Kate Middleton, Kent MacCarter, Zoë Sadokierski
Submission to Cordite 117: NO THEME
Send me a poem that would nourish a stray cat. Send me a poem that takes a big swing, that risks calamity. Send me a poem where your inspiration has taken flight. Send me a poem that the academy cannot stomach. Send me a poem that doesn’t look like one. Send me a poem that AI could never generate, that demands humanity.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Alex Creece, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 116: REMEMBER
How is memory assailed by states, by time, by the formation of institutional practices of commemoration? Alessandro Portelli once wrote that oral testimonies ‘are not always fully reliable … Rather than being a weakness, this is however, their strength: errors, …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Alessandro Portelli, Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 112: TREAT
Who are you treating how? What gifts are you giving? What terms do you want to discuss or negotiate? Who or what would you like to heal or cure?
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter, Tricia Dearborn
Dominic Guerrera on as First Nations Literary Editor
We are honoured to announce that Dominic Guerrea has joined Cordite Poetry Review as First Nations Literary Editor.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Dominic Guerrera, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 111: BABY
Send us your babies. Nobody puts poems in a corner.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter, liam ferney, Shastra Deo
Submission to Cordite 110: POP!
We want poems that POP! Think pop culture, pop art, pop music, popcorn, pop rocks. Poems in the shape of a soup can. Ghazals with Bieber Fever. Sonnets with square eyes. Give us bubblegum poems. Channel-surfing poems.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter, Rebecca Jessen, Zenobia Frost
Erika M Carreon on as Philippines Literature Editor
I’m honoured to announce that Erika M Carreon joined the Cordite Poetry Review Philippines Literature Editor.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Erika M Carreon, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 109: NO THEME 12
We are now up to one dozen issues where there is no theme.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Caitlin Maling, Carolyn D Wright, Kent MacCarter, Nadia Rhook
Submission to Cordite 108: DEDICATION
This issue asks for your devotions, your gestures of esteem and affection, your hot takes on the solemn and fanatical. It delights in submissions seeking abandonment and surrender to a goal or cause.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter, Lou Garcia-Dolnik, Luke Patterson
James Jiang on as Literature Essays Editor
I’m honoured to announce that James Jiang will be taking up the helm of Literature Essays Editor for Cordite Poetry Review. His care, craft and academic nous is peerless. James Jiang is a writer, editor, and recovering academic based in …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged James Jiang, Kent MacCarter
50% EOFY Sale
Get 50% off your whole order of Cordite Books titles (as supplies last, and with one copy per title).
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter
Rory Green on as Games Literature Editor
I’m honoured to announce that Rory Green will be taking up the helm of Games Literature Editor, and to finally get back to using the online space and capabilities more consistently than we have the past decade.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter, Rory Green
KRG Poets Award 2022
In partnership with FNAWN, we are proud to publish the winning poems from the 2022 KRG Poets Award. The award honours the life and creative work of Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Ellen van Neerven, Jeanine Leane, Kent MacCarter, Marissa McDowell, Samia Goudie, Yvette Holt
Submission to Cordite 106: OPEN
For OPEN, we’re interested in doublings, triplicates etcetera, and/or play and suggestion.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Cameron Lowe, Jo Langdon, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 107: LIMINAL
Liminal and Cordite are seeking poems by Asian Australian writers.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Bella Li, Cher Tan, James Jiang, Kent MacCarter, Leah Jing McIntosh
Submission to Cordite 103: AMBLE
Forthcoming …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Elena Gomez, Kent MacCarter, Sarah Gory
Submission to Cordite 102: GAME
A game is an environment navigated by apparent rules and structured by invisible rules. All of these (and the game) can be broken if you know where to look.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Jini Maxwell, Kent MacCarter, Rory Green
SINGAPORE Editorial
We consciously eschewed the substantial but well-represented body of Singaporean poetry originally written in English, and instead sought out voices from Tamil, Malay, Chinese and more which have not been as well circulated in the anglophone literary world.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Alex Creece, Alvin Pang, Joshua Ip, Kent MacCarter, Michelle Lee, Shalani Devi
Submission to Cordite 101: NO THEME 10
Images courtesy of Jeanine Leane and John Kinsella. From now, and throughout 2021, we’re celebrating 25 years of publishing. Milestones include the publication of Cordite Poetry Review’s 100th issue in February, Cordite Books’ 40th print title, and the new free …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Jeanine Leane, John Kinsella, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 100: BROWNFACE
The brownface caricature of Jonah Takalua – as created and played by comedian Chris Lilley in the television show Jonah from Tonga – has been haunting Australia for twelve years.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter, Winnie Siulolovao Dunn
Introduction to Em König’s Breathing Plural
Will we miss nature, asks Em König in Breathing Plural? In ‘dreams of stale breath’, maybe. Or ‘in another life, on another planet … maybe’ (echoing The Only Ones’ only hit). Glenn Albrecht says in Earth Emotions, ‘It [nature] effectively no longer exists’.
Posted in INTRODUCTIONS
Tagged Em König, Jill Jones, Kent MacCarter, Zoë Sadokierski
Submission to Cordite 97: PROPAGANDA
Information can be propagated to divide or to unite. It doesn’t have to lie, it doesn’t even have to frame the truth.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Kent MacCarter, mez breeze, Simon Groth
Tell Me Like You Mean It 3
In curating this chapbook I’m not sure I feel closer to answering these questions: certainly they are never stagnant … But I do feel closer to poetry’s resistance to answer these questions, which does circle back to some kind of answer to my last question – we return to poetry not because we have an answer, but instead return in a process of regeneration.
Posted in CHAPBOOKS
Tagged Alex Creece, Bonnie Reid, Bridget Gilmartin, Claire Albrech, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Gian Manik, Grace Heyer, Harriet McInerney, Jacinta Le Plastrier, Janet Jiahui Wu, Jonno Révanche, Julie Jedda Janson, Kent MacCarter, Manisha Anjali, Melody Paloma, Neika Lehman, Prithvi Varatharajan, Rory Dufficy, Sam Langer, Stella Maynard, Timmah Ball, Ursula Robinson-Shaw, Will Druce, Zoe Kingsley
