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Tag: Cordite Poetry Review
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Stéphane Mallarmé is dead. Long may his absence linger. Long may the horrifying abyss of the white (and black) pages confound we poets, prattlers and plagiarists. And long may we question the substance of our languages, the correspondences between organic, systemic lifeforms and the unstoppable progress of symbols: numbers, letters, marks, voids . . .…
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Cordite Poetry Review publishes its 50th full issue!
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It’s really pleasing to see how Cordite Poetry Review has flourished since Kent MacCarter took the reins back in 2012. Kent has truly injected a new sense of energy to the journal, and has just published the journal’s 50th full issue, NO THEME IV, featuring 50 new poems edited by John Tranter and a whole swag of goodies including…
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In which I make my first foray into the wilds of West Virginia.
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Yikes! Where did the time go?
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‘Regular’ ‘readers’ of this ‘blog’ would be excused for thinking that I’d fallen under a bus, given the absolute lack of any kind of update for over a month now. But the contrary is true: far from having fallen under a bus, I’m actually – ah, whatever.
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My Cordite Top Eleven!
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In this post, I look back on my years as Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review, and pick my top eleven choicest moments from what has been a thrilling, exhausting and ultimately life-affirming rollercoaster ride of love and passion.
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Cordite–Prairie Schooner collaboration now online
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I’m very pleased to say that Work: A Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion is now online, and available for your cerebral delectation. But what is Prairie Schooner? And what do I mean by ‘co-feature’? And what the heck is ‘cerebral delectation’ anyway? Prairie Schooner is a Nebraska-based literary journal currently edited by Kwame Dawes. The Cordite-Prairie Schooner…
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Still, as far as screenshot montages go, it’s not so bad. Read my post over on Cordite celebrating ten years and 2,000 posts [Wayback archive]. Or, if you’re feeling like taking a deep dive, check out A History of Cordite Poetry Review in Screenshots over on Flickr.
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Interviewing Ko Un
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One of the highlights of my second Asialink residency in Seoul in 2009 was my meeting with poet Ko Un.
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My interview with Arjen Duinker
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Well it’s taken me
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LOL: Issue 1 and the Internet Post-Avant
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Well, that was interesting!
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Good news and bad
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**UPDATE** Cordite Poetry Review is now back online! The good news is that I’ve now narrowed down over 700 pages of submissions for Cordite 28: Secret Cities to just 50. The process was both fun and exhausting, although there’s a couple of pieces in there that (if I were the writer) I’d really want to…
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Cordite at NYWF Mega-Mega Launch!
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In addition to the reading and panels I’ll be doing at NYWF in Newcastle, it’s my pleasure to announce that the latest issue of Cordite Poetry Review will be officially launched as part of the Mega Mega Launch! The launch will be held on Saturday Sep 29th, from 6-7.30pm at the Festival Club (Ground Floor,…
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We Will Disappear: the first review!
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It’s a bit weird when a journal you edit publishes a review of a book you’ve written. But I can live with that.
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The Material Poem
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The Material Poem is a new e-anthology edited by James Stuart and published by non-generic productions. The blurb on the site says: The Material Poem features the work of some 28 Australian poets, artists and critics, all of whom are engaged with poetry, and more broadly language, as a material form. This body of work…