Cordite Poetry Review
Good news and bad
**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…
Cordite at NYWF Mega-Mega Launch!
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…
We Will Disappear: the first review!
The Material Poem
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…
Patrick Jones: ebay activism
UPDATE: JUST FREE WATER IS NOW ON MYSPACE! Patrick Jones is a conundrum: installationist, artist, provocateur, former bookshop owner and – yes, let’s say it – poet. Readers of Cordite would be familiar with Patrick’s contributions to the magazine over…
The origins of the International Search Poetry Movement
Today I received an email from a poet who was involved in the Cordite Poetry Review Search issue asking me about the methodology we employed in the exercise. For those with long memories, the Search issue came out in January 2004,…
Cordite #24
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:…
Eye amm, yew aaar, wee aar Oztraylia!
I have a couple of poems coming out this week. One’s in the understated and unpretentious Tasmanian literary bi-annual Famous Reporter, and it’s entitled “There’s A Wild Jack Russell In the Moon”. I’m really happy that this poem has found…