- 118: PRECARIOUSwith A Jackson 117: NO THEME 14with A Creece 116: REMEMBERwith M Sahhar and A Te Whiu 115: SPACEwith A Sometimes 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
Kent MacCarter
Alex Creece on as Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review
After 15 years, 80 consecutive issues, and on the brink of Cordite Publishing’s 30th anniversary, it is my pleasure to announce that I am stepping down as Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review.
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Tagged Alex Creece, Kent MacCarter
Dženana Vucic on as Reviews Editor
I’m very excited to announce that Dženana Vucic has joined Cordite Poetry Review as Reviews Editor.
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Tagged Dženana Vucic, Kent MacCarter
Introduction to Andrew Brooks’s Year of the Ox
‘History,’ writes Walter Benjamin, ‘decays into images, not into stories’. And what is the image? It is ‘that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation’. Andrew Brooks’s Year of the Ox is a constellation of images in precisely this Benjaminian sense: it charts the movement of history, not with the logic of linear progress but the dialectic of historical materialism.
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Tagged André Dao, Kent MacCarter, Zoë Sadokierski
Introduction to Sarah-Jane Burton’s Boston Poems
In Boston Poems, Sarah-Jane Burton conjures the city she came to know intimately while researching the lives and work of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. These poems are odes to Boston’s grand public spaces, universities, writers and pioneering hospitals.
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Tagged Heather Clark, Kent MacCarter, Zoë Sadokierski
Submission to Cordite 118: PRECARIOUS
You know what I mean. Precarious employment. Fragile peace. Endangered species. Shaky democratic institutions.
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Tagged Andy Jackson, 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.
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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.
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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, …
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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?
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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.
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Tagged Dominic Guerrera, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 111: BABY
Send us your babies. Nobody puts poems in a corner.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tagged Cameron Lowe, Jo Langdon, Kent MacCarter
Submission to Cordite 107: LIMINAL
Liminal and Cordite are seeking poems by Asian Australian writers.
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Tagged Bella Li, Cher Tan, James Jiang, Kent MacCarter, Leah Jing McIntosh
Submission to Cordite 103: AMBLE
Forthcoming …
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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.
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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.
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Tagged Alex Creece, Alvin Pang, Joshua Ip, Kent MacCarter, Michelle Lee, Shalani Devi
