David Prater is an Australian-born writer, editor and parent. His interests include mince pies, ice hockey and Joy Division.
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Milko
I wrote this poem in 2005 as part of an as-yet-unpublished autobiographical collection. In 2012 it appeared online as part of my editorial for the Cordite-Prairie Schooner Fusion issue, and in 2025 as part of my revised editorial for the Prairie Schooner Global Fusion print anthology.
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Cordite 21: Domestic Enemy (2005)
Cordite #21 is now online, featuring poems by Ouyang Yu, Christopher Kelen, Lu Yang, Ethan Paquin, John Gascoigne, Richard Reeves, Simon Hall, Anna Jackson, Louis Armand and Sarah French. But wait, there’s more. Robo-poems! Yes, we’ve finally chosen eleven winning robo-poems from the MOUNTAIN of entries we received late last year. We hope you enjoy…
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Cordite 20: Submerged (2004)
Get your flippers on, we?re going diving. Cordite #20 is a completely underwater issue: SUBMERGED! POETRY Starring snappy poets joanne burns, Pam Brown, nick whittock, Jen Tsen Kwok, Jane Gibian, Anna Jackson, Mark Pirie, Louise Oxley, Ouyang Yu and more. FEATURES James Stuart cuts loose with an investigation into visual poetry. Read his article in…
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Cordite 19: Anti/Heroes (2004)
Well they said we’d never make it. This, the nineteenth issue of Cordite Poetry Review, has turned out to be our biggest and most varied so far for 2004. With nineteen poems (appropriately enough) plus a collection of Slivers by Ian McBryde, Anti/Heroes is packed with more poetic moments than a tin of sonnets. Speaking…
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Thomas Pynchon: “Gravity’s Rainbow”
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…
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Cordite 18: Roots (2004)
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…
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Cordite 17: Driver (2004)
Cordite #17 DRIVER has pulled into the carport two days ahead of schedule, and is ready for your persual. Driver is designed to get your motor running, featuring interviews with Andrew Cox of the Fauves and Margaret Phillips of the National Library of Australia’s Pandora Project, as well as articles by Louise Swinn, Lucina Kathmann…
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Cordite 16: Search (2004)
Happy New Year to all our readers, and what better way to kick out the jams than with a fresh batch of poems – Search Poems, to be exact. Cordite’s very pleased to present, in conjunction with the Poetry Espresso mailing list, this selection of poems (our sixteenth issue, and our tenth online), written using…
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On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology
Editor: Greg M. Smith Publisher: New York: NYU Press, 1999 Review Published: May 2003 Original source: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
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“Off With the Page”: Dog-ears and anarchism
Have you ever gone to a poetry reading and sat there all night, nervous as all get-up, unable to engage your motor skills in the simple act of walking over to the organiser and saying, ‘Put my name down for that open mike’? What was it that intimidated you? Did you feel as if’no-one was…