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Cordite #21
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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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SCIENCE DICTION
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Beyond the firewall, Thetes a-drilling. Scintillation, precise as tubes. Spot flares bask the gamma rays in fog. What use is a snow pistol? My electronic ink freezes the display. My read-outs betray a breeze. I wheeze – in & out – relieved & finally on Mars.
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Nicotine Angst
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it will not go away driving in a car kissing your lover goodbye smell it in the air feel it in your lungs shave off all of your hair & say “goodbye this time coz i’m breathing the flicker of a breeze i see it in your eyes its time to go away were coming…
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DES MARIONETTES SUR L’EAU
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only these three things can make me cry images of deaf children hearing for the first time (the first word: mother) a look of utter joy most of us cannot remember a memory of my mother bringing me hot chocolate and a biscuit she drops the tray that one makes me cry small families with…
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Thirty tatami mats
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the human ear is a barrier between us & the world of sound once its lost then we have no need to tell birds apart in effect eternal sounds erased an inverted dome the brain sets in like a permaculture pond sucks the earth it can hear your blood & your heart’s a rising crescendo…
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소수: Paucity
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This poem originally appeared under the title ‘Cities of Pau’ in Going Down Swinging, no. 21 (2003).
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In a Dark Fibre Age
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for R ó ìIf I have done my job well, what you are about to read will be seen as an analysis of the mechanisms and repercussions of catastrophe, a hitherto unknown explanation of our history, and a chilling warning for the future.î David Keys, Catastrophe [1999] Brother Germaine’s room was located at the top…
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haiku: [enjambement]
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enjambement breaks into sunshine like a dog upon a pond reflections collide in the state forests full of green ukrainians built a big square pool a private lesiure centre up past anglesea beware the great ocean roads corrugation wonder tyres love the earths drains some shattered morning a koala a chainsaw australian dreams of horizontal…
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[d’dn] search strings
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So this is how you all find me. tigers guernsey for the wizard cup 2005 an exampel of a haiku poem *dont stare screensaver* he sails tonight lyrics recovery tram budgie smuggler photo invention of marzipan slowdive karappo fourth reich roger federer feel the touch farnham youre the voice mid cordite asthma neo mp3 music…
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10 SECRETS OF GOOD POETRY
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Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that there are ten secrets to good poetry. That person is more likely to be a salesperson than a poet. There are in fact eleven. Good poems resist time Language is a fluid Your idealised inner poetic space may be quite irrelevant in the end Even free verse…
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Balcony
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Dusk. The freeway’s haze; Green Australian gum trees Soak up the spectrum. Sparrows in the elms: Fans dressed for a football match Scale autumn’s ladder. Australian icon: Southern Cross windmill, rusted By the passing cars. Siamese cats scan The corrugated iron Roof for a sparrow. Old kiln-works chimney, You burn the earth into walls Made…
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impossible socks
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socks from guernsey socks of bristol ariadnes thread is a whistle steam rising higher than bi-planes arc wool damp with mud-sweat wedged into every second parcel from home a rain of letters withers a day impossible stocks hatred dreaming socks stitches several strings a colour electric as a rag picker bundle stashed in moments before…
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[d/dn]: it’s booty time
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Once again, Davey Dreamnation has confounded his critics by reaching the Number 1 spot on the MP3.com.au lo-fi albums charts. That’s right, Davey’s sophomore album, Recognition Of Prior Learning has reached #1 for the second time. Davey wishes to thank Stung, Scaramouche and Quito for their efforts and support over the years. Read it and…
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Pirate Patch
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so dont ever call me patch or i’ll never see my hand again call me uncle touch my patch but old dog bears the replica upon his kennel birds – no! hook-eyed & emerald pirates! don’t be squeamish you kids! with a blunderbuss fire away sanguine & intelligent patch will live 2 raid another day!…
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sprawls of brick & steel
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stained mice flash baby teeth incisors warped like barbed wire aerial telemetry’s useless yet from the post-intellectual filmscape comes a hint of steel bayed blood & mile after mile of bricks & bayonet works detergent streams canals under streets meet the giant sprawl of the ocean’s packets arrive compresed in the anti-light of yesterday evening’s…