Cordite Poetry Review was established in 1997, and is Australia’s premier Internet poetry journal, with a reputation for publishing experimental and innovative works by both established and emerging Australian poets. Cordite initially received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, the federal government’s peak arts funding body, and boasts a large and varied readership.
Cordite was founded by Adrian Wiggins and Peter Minter. It began as a broadsheet, with six full issues of the journal published in print. I was Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review between 2001 and 2012. During that time, I produced 30 full issues of the magazine, plus 10 mini-issues, in an online format.
My appointment as Managing Editor coincided with a decision to switch to an online format. The first online issues featured hand-coded HTML pages. Later iterations made use of Movable Type and, briefly, Blogger. Since 2005, Cordite has been produced using WordPress.
In 2012 I stepped down from the Managing Editor position, handing over the reins to Kent MacCarter.
Cordite Poetry Review has been indexed and archived by the National Library of Australia’s Pandora Project.
All issues (2001-2012)
- Cordite 37.1: Nebraska
- Cordite 37: No Theme!
- Cordite 36: Electronica
Cordite Poetry Review No. 36: Electronica Poetry Editor: Jill Jones Released: 1 December 2011 Cover image: Maxine Clarke Pandora archive (NLA) - Cordite 35.2: Oz-ko (Hanguk-Hoju)
Cordite Poetry Review No. 35.2: Oz-Ko 한국-호주 (Hanguk-Hoju) Poetry editor: Eun-Gwi Chung English translations: Eun-Gwi Chung and Brother Anthony of Taizé Released: 1 August 2011 Cover image: Ivy Alvarez Pandora archive (NLA) - Cordite 35.1: Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hanguk)
Cordite Poetry Review No. 35.1: Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hanguk) Poetry editor: David Prater Hangul translations: 김재현 (Kim Gaihyun) and 김성현 (Kim Sunghyun) Released: 1 May 2011 Cover image: Ivy Alvarez Pandora archive (NLA) - Cordite 35.0: Oz-Ko (Envoy)
Cordite Poetry Review No. 35.0: Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hanguk) Poetry editor: David Prater Released: 1 April 2011 Cover image: Ivy Alvarez Pandora archive (NLA) - Cordite 34: Children of Malley II
Cordite Poetry Review No. 34: Children of Malley II Poetry Editor: Liam Ferney Release date: 1 December 2010 - Cordite 33.1: CC – The Remixes
Poetry editor: Alison Croggan Pandora archive (NLA) - Cordite 33: Creative Commons
Poetry editor: Alison Croggan
Pandora archive (NLA) - Cordite 32: Zombie 2.0 (2010)I’m suitably gored-out
- Cordite 31.1: Post-Epic (2009)
- Cordite 31.0: Epic (2009)… is now online!
- Cordite 30.1: Made (2009)
- Cordite 30: Custom (2009)… is now online!
- Cordite 29.1: Haikunaut (2009)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…
- Cordite 29.0: Pastoral (2008)Cordite’s gone pastoral but that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with droving. Guest poetry editor Stuart Cooke steadies the lead with his selections, including new work by Joyce Parkes, Michael Farrell, Nick Powell, Jennifer Compton, David Musgrave and more! The issue also features six tracks from the latest issue of Going Down Swinging, available…
- Cordite 28.1: Mulloway (2008)It tickles me pink to announce that MULLOWAY, Cordite’s tribute to the poetry of Robert Adamson, is now online! Join our guest editor Greg McLaren as he navigates the river of Adamson’s poetry, with new work by John Tranter, Kate Fagan, joanne burns, Stuart Cooke, Adam Aitken, Adrian Wiggins, James Stuart and the mysterious Albert…
- Cordite 28: Secret Cities (2008)… although by the time you read this post you’re probably already aware of its ‘appearance’, not just via the 28: Secret Cities index page but also through RSS feeds (which ‘leaked through’ even though the public website was in ‘maintenence’ mode), my own perhaps inadvertant leaks via my Facebook update, a Facebook Cordite group…
- Cordite 27: Experience (2008)After lengthy delays, Cordite 27 Experience is now ready to go, with new poetry posted daily beginning February 8 2008 – hey, that was last week! Yikes! Join our guest editor, actor-poet sensation Terry Jaensch and share the experiences of some of Australia’s most innovative and savvy poets! With a beautiful cover image by Emilie…
- Cordite 26.1: White Homes (2007)Image: Chris Schedel: ‘White Homes, near Elgin, Illinois 2007’. Prose poetry is the new black. Join guest editor Kristina Marie Darling in celebrating all things prosodical in Cordite 26.1: White Homes, a special selection of work from ten of the USA’s finest exponents of the genre, including Erin M. Bertram, Joshua Clover, Robert Gibbons, Richard…
- Cordite 26: Innocence (2007)Okay so I’m still messin’ around with the index page but the basic news is that Cordite 26 – Innocence is now online! It features 55 poems by 31 bulk ace and fully untold poets, all selected anonymously by our guest poetry editor, MTC Cronin. Dive in and taste the sweetness that is Cordite 26…
- Cordite 25: Generation of Zeroes (2006)Cordite 25 – Generation of Zeroes is now online, featuring new works by a whole bunch of digitally cool poets including Carol Jenkins, Derek Motion, Elena Knox, Jill Jones, Joel Deane, Klare Lanson and more! Our special guest poetry editor and chanteuse extraordinaire alicia sometimes has done a terrific job balancing the ones and the…
- Cordite 24: Common Wealth (2006)Cordite 24 – Common Wealth features over fifty new poems by Australian and international poets including Kris Hemensley, Kevin Brophy, Ban’ya Natsuishi, Carol Jenkins, Aileen Kelly, Rebekah Moon, Todd Swift, Diane Fahey and many more! Plus! Cordite 24.1 – Candylands: a special American poetry feature edited by Michael Farrell including poems by Catherine Daly, Kevin…
- Cordite 23: Children of Malley (2005)Ern Malley, the original dromedary of Australian poetry, has been anthologised, criticised and mythologised beyond belief. It’s perhaps sobering to reflect that while Ern Malley’s creators, his twin Gepettos James McAuley and Harold Stewart along with his original sponsor Max Harris have passed from this world, Ern’s legend lives on. What is it about Ern…
- Cordite 22: Editorial Intervention (2005)As the title suggests, Cordite 22: Editorial Intervention was devoted to editors. I solicited poetry and other works from over 20 Australian and international poetry editors. Cordite #22 is now online, featuring poems by poetry editors past and present, including Adrian Wiggins, Ali Alizadeh, alicia sometimes, Alison Croggan, Ban’ya Natsuishi and many more! I’ve even…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…