Seething since 2000*
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…
covers: poems by nick whittock (Cordite On Demand, 2004) COD’s second book, by cricket tragic and librarian Nick Whittock, was a lot of fun to make. Nick wanted the book to be shaped like the old Footrot Flats comics. Once…
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…
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…
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.…
OI: poewemz bii tom see (Cordite On Demand, 2004) Earlier this year, deciding that my life wasn’t nearly as busy as it could be, I set up an imprint for Cordite Press, known as COD, or Cordite On Demand. Its…
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…
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…
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…