Category: Cordite Poetry Review (page 3 of 7)
I was the Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review between 2001 and 2012. I produced 29 full issues of the magazine, plus 10 mini-issues, in an online format. Check out my Cordite portfolio page for more information.
I’m very pleased to annouce that Cordite 30: Custom/Made is now online. Our guest poetry editor for this issue, joanne burns, has custom-selected forty four poems from a diverse range of makers including Geoff Lemon, Anne Elvey, Sue Stanford, Ouyang Yu, Sam Twyford-Moore, Lee Kofman, Derek Motion and Bonny Cassidy.
As is customary, the issue is presented in its entirety on our homepage. Over the coming weeks, we’ll also be posting a second set of poems by the contributors to the issue. These poems will be ‘made’ using the texts from other contributors’ poems. Think of it as a kind of re-mix, sans Auto-tune (sorry, Kanye).
Keep an eye out for other new content on the site, including new audio poems, features, interviews and, of course, our fortnightly book review.
I trust you will enjoy the issue as much as we have enjoyed putting it together.
Just a quick note to let you know Cordite’s special all-haiku issue, 29.1 HAIKUNAUT is now uploaded and fully untold! Guest-edited by Keiji Minato and David G. Lanoue, Haikunaut features exactly one hundred new haiku by a range of poets from Japan, Bulgaria and the United States, as well as a nifty series of articles by Keiji Minato on the subject of modern haiku in Japan.
All in all, I’m pretty proud of this mini-issue, which can be accessed for freeeee!
But that’s not all, of course. You now have the chance to contribute to Haikunaut, via our special Free Haikunaut Renga! What’s that, you ask? Well, it’s kind of like Fantasy Island, without Tattoo. Keiji will be acting as MC Haikunaut, while David has ‘thrown’ the first ‘ku’ in what we hope will become a multi-author renga, co-written by you! All you have to do is go to the site, find the right comment box, enter your haiku and click ‘Submit’. Dead easy.
Then again, haiku and renga may not be your cup of green tea, in which case you should probably know that submissions for Cordite’s next ‘proper’ issue, 30.0: CUSTOM/MADE, are now open. In fact, they’ve been open for some time, and we’ve already received a whole stack of anonymous submissions. Don’t leave it to late, is all I’m sayin’.
Get on board!
K.
Kfxbai.