Luke Patterson



Tell Me Like You Mean It 7

Image by Angélique Moseley When briefing commissioned poets on what I imagined this volume of Tell Me Like You Mean It to embody, I eagerly told them to simply ‘tell me like you mean it’. I didn’t care if it …

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DEDICATION Editorial

We came about this issue’s theme by dumping loved words into a shared document: nouns, verbs, phrases and onomatopoeia that stirred a shared love of intimacy with language, of play and tricksterism.

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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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Uninitiation

to the hum of a subaru 4×4 they invent an escape the uncles have it all planned criss-crossing old lines where that big serpent story slithers west a comic opera of black men a wallaby and a brolga and a …

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Double Brick Dream

late september sunday afternoon eucalyptus blossom roast lamb in the air I jimmy open the side gate smothered with heraldic wattle and passing through the sunlit thick yellow mottled in lorikeet and native hue here comes the fledgling message bringer …

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