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Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion: Work (2012)
2 February 2012

Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion: Work (2012)

I met Kwame Dawes, the editor of Lincoln, Nebraska-based journal Prairie Schooner, at the Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia in 2011. Following the festival, Kwame invited me, as the editor of Cordite Poetry Review, to collaborate on a joint issue, to be published online.

Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion: Work (2012)

Our collaboration became the first of what would become known as Fusion, a new online series features collaborations between Prairie Schooner and interesting, innovative online literary entities from around the world that seek to create dynamic fusions in literature and art.

A detail from 'Army of Mirriams', by Michelle Ussher.
A detail from ‘Army of Mirriams’, by Michelle Ussher.

The Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion, with the theme of ‘Work’, featured poems from Cordite Poetry Review by Tom Clark, Lorin Ford, Derek Motion, Brendan Ryan, Adrian Wiggins, Jennifer Compton, Ivy Alvarez, Barbara De Franceschi, Liam Ferney, Peter Coghill, M. F. McAuliffe, Benito Di Fonzo, Esther Johnson, Geoff Page, Emily Stewart and Margaret Owen Ruckert, plus audio poems by Sean M. Whelan & the Interim Lovers, Maxine Beneba Clarke, komninos zervos and Benito Di Fonzo.

It also featured poems from Prairie Schooner by Hedi Kaddour (translated by Marilyn Hacker), R. F. McEwan, Ander Monson, Linda McCarriston, Toi Derricotte, Marvin Bell, Marcella Pixley, Ted Kooser, Moira Lineham, Sandy Solomon, Jenny Factor, John Engman, Gary Fincke, Dannye Romine Powell, John Canaday, James Cihlar, Nance Van Winckel, Floyd Skloot and Roy Scheele.

Illustrations were provided by Michelle Ussher and Watie White.

In addition, the feature included interviews with Derek Motion, Jennifer Compton and Nance Van Winckel, plus eight more interviews on the Cordite site.

31 October 2010

Final Friday (2010)

This 24-page A5 chap­book was published privately by sydneypoetry.com and launched at a Final Friday reading in Newtown, Australia (October 2010).

Both sydneypoetry.com and Final Friday were initiated by Adrian Wiggins, co-founder of Cordite Poetry Review. 

The launch event was pretty intimate: a group of people crowded into Adrian’s lounge room paid me the ultimate compliment by listening to me rant on for about an hour, and then subjected themselves to a Q&A with me as well! 

As only 15 copies of the book were ever printed, you can access the poems below.  

20 December 2006 / 0 Comments

Going Down Swinging 24 (2006)

Like most good things in life, my stint as co-editor of Going Down Swing­ing, Australia’s finest lit­er­ary mag­a­zine, was all too brief.

I came on board for just one issue but the expe­ri­ence was fan­tas­tic: we selected over 140 pages of poetry and prose, along with a bumper eighty page comics sec­tion, mak­ing this issue one of the biggest (and, of course, best).

I was flat­tered to be asked to be MC for the launch of the issue in Decem­ber 2006. Props to my co-editors Steve Grimwade, Lisa Green­away and Mandy Ord. Here’s a quote from my editorial for the issue:

This is the first time I’ve ever worked closely with a group of fellow-editors and let me tell you, the GDS editorial meetings are barnstorming affairs, where the seemingly impossible task of selecting a book’s worth of content from thousands of submissions takes on epic proportions. I’d like to be able to say that these meetings were full of tears, tantrums and tie-breaks but the truth is, working with Steve and Lisa has been a fantastic experience.

To order copies or to find out more about submitting to GDS, visit the website.

1 December 2005 / 0 Comments

Southern Review 38.1 (2005)

In 2005, Denise Meredyth and I, wearing our Swinburne hats, co-edited a special issue of Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture.

Southern Review is a fully-refereed interdisciplinary journal of communication, politics and culture published by RMIT University, Melbourne.

The theme of the issue was Online Archives and Virtual Collections and it contains our editorial, nine articles and four book reviews.

One of the articles is about my experiences as an editor of Cordite, entitled “That Wicked CIA Technology: Archiving An Online Literary Journal”. Here’s the abstract:

This paper explores issues associated with the maintenance and archiving of a Melbourne-based online poetry journal, Cordite Poetry Review. I reflect upon the pitfalls of online production from the perspectives of editor, writer and researcher. The paper argues that an archiving strategy aimed at satisfying these three perspectives will only succeed if it incorporates both traditional and non-traditional media. Various options are explored in the context of present efforts to permanently archive the journal. While thus addressed primarily to editors of literary journals, the paper has wider application for organisations and creators involved in similar voluntary activities across the arts.

12 June 2005

Re: (2005)

Re: was a 16-page A5 pamphlet co-written with Andy Jackson in 2005. We contributed four poems each, although all poems were unattributed.

The desire to make this book object stemmed in part from our involvement in performances, recordings and the poetry scene.

We named the pamphlet Re: in honour of a series of emails we’d sent each other without a subject line, thus producing a recurring ‘Re:’.

The launch for Re: was held in the Victorian Writers Centre in June 2005, and drew a crowd of thirty to forty people. If anything, Re: resembles a split 7” release by two bands, with traces of punk in its obscured sense of irony.

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1 December 2004 / 0 Comments

covers by nick whittock (2004)

In 2004 I had the bright idea of starting up a poetry imprint for Cordite Poetry Review: Cordite On Demand (or COD). It was a short-lived venture, to say the least, but we did publish two books, and also set up an equally short-lived website.

The second book published by COD was the magnificently barmy covers by nick whittock. Nick, I think it is safe to say, is the wold’s best cricket poet, and a total tragic when it comes to the game. Cordite basically single-handedly kickstarted Nick’s career as a poet and cricket blogger, and I’m proud to this day to have been a supporter his published poetic output.

If OI: poewemz bii tom see (2004) was a challenge, design-wise, then covers was an absolute monster. Nick had very particular ideas about poem placement and line breaks, and it took a lot of back and forth before we got it right.

The book also contains a number of images of ‘sleeping’ cricketers, as well as spectacular cover image, which shows players taking cover as a flying bomb passes overhead during a wartime match at Lords.

covers by nick whittock (2004)Download

covers (2004)

michael slater
damien martyn
hayden & langer: open slat(h)er
re mission
sonny rollins
dizzy gillespie
brett lee
steve waugh … 
michael slater
an eleven
test 
pe
record 9th wicket partnership
justin langer
[ ]
spin
border-gavaskar trophy 03/04
doosra locomotion

21 August 2004

OI: poewemz bii tom see (2004)

In 2004 I had the bright idea of starting up a poetry imprint for Cordite Poetry Review: Cordite On Demand (or COD). It was a short-lived venture, to say the least, but we did publish two books, and also set up an equally short-lived website.

The first book published by COD was the idiosyncratically titled OI: poewemz bii tom see (2004), which was actually written by Tom Clark, with illustrations by Charles Lake. The poems in the book are written in Tom’s trademark phonetic style: see ‘Heet’, which was published in Cordite’s first issue in print, for an example.

The book itself was designed to mimic the shape and size of a record cover, with the titles printed on the back as if it was an album rather than a book. Looking back, this was definitely an exercise in discovery: trying to work out how to design and format an object that was true to the author’s style and personality.

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OI: poewemz bii tom see (2004)

Goalden aij
Dhe paasing uv jaimz bond
Dhe Wautuweel
Daivi joenzez lokur
Tranz
Tramz
Daun-derj
Dhu blak and green skaerkroe
U praer fur joniy
Evurest (audio) 
Hoem
Songmoth
Wen niits berden faulz
Wej-tail
Dubul disuloushen kiit
Freedum
Henliy beetc
In praiz uv patenz

12 October 2002

8 poems (2002)

My chapbook 8 poems appeared as part of a three-chapbook issue of du papa, a short lived poetry press established by Michael Farrell and Joe Hill.

8 poems, together with with Melbourne poet Claire Gaskin’s 9 poems and Slovenian poet Primoz Cucnik’s 4 poems, was staple-bound individually in A4 format and compiled loosely in a plain white folio with a black ink line on its cover. A total of 100 copies of each chapbook were printed.

Collectors may be interested to note that the inside front cover incorrectly states that I was born in 1969.

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