- 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
sean m. whelan
I Can’t Believe I Set Myself on Fire for This
Out on the perimeter of my bed their eyes glow in the dark. I tried tracing the lines between them once, like staring into the starry night to read the horoscope of my horror. But they never stay still long …
Posted in 91: MONSTER
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Cordite 37.1: Nebraska is now online
Released in conjunction with the Cordite-Prairie Schooner co-feature, Cordite 37.1: Nebraska is a tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album, presented by Sean M. Whelan and Liner Notes. Contributors include Neil Boyack, Josephine Rowe, Omar Musa, Gabriel Piras, Samuel Wagan Watson, …
Posted in BLOG ARCHIVES, GUNCOTTON
Tagged bruce springsteen, liner notes, nebraska, prairie schooner, sean m. whelan
Liner Notes: Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album was released thirty years ago, in 1982. Twenty-four years after that iconic moment in the history of urban American folk, Liner Notes debuted at the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival with a spoken word tribute to David …
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged bruce springsteen, liner notes, nebraska, sean m. whelan, work
Dream Machines
[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/Whelan_DreamMachines.mp3|titles=Dream Machines – Sean M Whelan & Isnod] Dream Machines (4:25) Written and produced by Sean M Whelan & Isnod
Posted in 46: ELECTRONICA
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The Laugh Track of Their Sloppy Fists
[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/whelan_laughtrack.mp3] The Laugh Track of Their Sloppy Fists (1:01)
Posted in 39: ZOMBIE 2.0
Tagged sean m. whelan
A Ghost In The Golden Sheep Massage Parlour
[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/A Ghost In The Golden Sheep Massage Parlour.mp3] Sean M Whelan & The Interim Lovers A Ghost In The Golden Sheep Massage Parlour
Posted in 37: EPIC
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Diana Young Reviews Sean M. Whelan
In reading Sean Whelan's Love is the New Hate, I was invited on a journey into the hinterlands of evasive emotion, decorated by the wreckage of cryptic personal revelations. Whelan's ten poems combine a strong narrative orientation with a casual conversational cadence to pull us into his native terrain.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Diana Young, sean m. whelan
Bling Fling Thing
[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/ezb_bling.mp3] Emilie Zoey Baker Bling Fling Thing It’s booty time, with our unofficial Glitter Queen, Emilie Zoey Baker, strutting her tuff words audibly in mp3 format. Recorded by our former audiovisual editor, Sean M Whelan, this track will soon have …
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Tagged Emilie Zoey Baker, sean m. whelan
Waiting for Fire
She's out again, crushing rocks with her eyelids. While you attach tennis raquets to your back and call them wings. She's turning cars over in the street and scraping out their guts with her bare hands, hoping to find a …
Posted in 09: MUSIC
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