Davey Dreamnation

softly softly through our krystallnacht
geyser bowser crack pop-offs just relax
black north face seventies teevee slack
hostesse with remote test tubes bivouac
jack in at five with first asthma snaps
vacate laps tool the tried anagrama bat
an independent way the roadsteads whack
in maple lanes the seaside pretzel flak
emergency hammer laden with drugged axe
sues me sonnys walk man pow wow [...]

three burn cross the breeze breathe out
the ski tube closed month admits a mike
mad dog official relate my innoculation
snazzy smarts dry mouth allege collapse
college fund spoken speed worm generals
baulk there will be non families tennis
banned outskirts strip airport clearing
dummy bids diplomacy karaoke insurgents
freely admitted to my military hospital
animal husbandry sheltered from cruelty
not worried shudder bomb [...]

-gunter grass
the piledrivers bells ding an ice rink
augen auf! (so sieht es aus!) … yah
hell spokes causing a re-examinational
alignment curses piano fail satiate me
young man young man bucket phil & her,
er … s … clear! cover me russia in
reservoir sparrow plover drive(r) girl
he looks like mikey then & gnarly zzzz
green gills phonic skilz teamer hovier
clever [...]

respiratory system planted upside
down in our gardens bronchially
spouting white money tree flower
green tear shaped succulent leaf
week-long lastly admonishing the
winter blast furnace winds irate
five pointed stars cougher lungs
white blood brown trunks enough
pull good fortune sweetly from
these chests of song bird petals
twirling through most grey skys
mote jazz bee sting even drown
spit stubbed butt purple bruise
turns green we [...]

horror movie suburbs darkness
slashed with shining screamer
picket smoking lounge rooms
intercept axe overdue rentals
trailer demons bong whipping
body building boyfriends malt
campus ripoffs damaged son o
mutilate bathroom sprawling
flaw light squeeze toothpaste
residue bearded winter busts
translate actional apartments
connexion multigore (sunday

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For some reason, yesterday I found myself on the appallingly boring website of the world’s most boring tennis player, Roger Federer. What drove me to tears was the constant stream of entries in Roger’s “guest book” extolling his “exciting” style of tennis and requesting a “meeting”, for example at the conclusion of the Halle tennis [...]

You think they can’t smell your depression downwind
Dust breathes in childhood’s daisy grandmother musk
Practicing burnouts in half-case supermarket car parks
Packs of fags stashed beneath these red cotton undies
Screen printed instructions drown out the BMX blitzes
Chasing crabs in the disallowed artificial white creeks
First house on our block quickly joined by neighbours
String beans & strawberries rattled [...]

What better way to mark yesterday’s 100th anniversary of Bloomsday than to admit I have never read more than twenty pages of Ulysses, due in no small part to the Leavisite method of critical textual analysis introduced in my first days of undergraduate English. Don’t get me wrong: I respect the man, and having heard [...]

Simply The Best, ’s’all I wanna say. The woman is a genius, having recently sang for Oprah’s 50th birthday, which would have been like de ja vu for Tina, having turned 50 herself only twenty years ago. Last week I channelled Tina’s spirit at a karaoke bar in Sydney by singing my all time favourite [...]

Rocked the Celtic Club yesterday, it was my first reading for a long while, and possibly my longest reading ever. Good to get a chance to stand up and shout at people for 20 minutes. Thank you to the audience for listening and not leaving.

It’s been a hectic couple of months here in the Cordite bunker, following our server crash and its attendant dramas. Nevertheless, we’re pleased as punch to announce that Cordite has come of age, with our 18th issue now online!
The theme for this issue, Roots, obviously inspired a whole bunch of poets to write a whole [...]