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Tag: editing
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It’s out there: ITF Transport Outlook 2023
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It’s out there! The 2023 edition of the ITF – International Transport Forum‘s Transport Outlook has just been launched at the ITF Summit in Leipzig! The Outlook is the ITF’s “flagship” publication, examining the impacts of different policy measures on 🌐 global transport demand and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the actions governments can take…
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I’m really proud to have played a small part in helping the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations put together the second edition of its groundbreaking study on leadership in UN peace operations, Considerations for Mission Leadership in UN Peace Operations. My role in the project entailed editing and bringing together six chapters…
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While the history of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Oxford lecture could fill a book, this post explores the untold stories behind three known versions of the text.
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Here’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past three months: a reissue of Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture, ‘The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact’. On 30 May 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld gave a lecture in Oxford about the international civil service. Now, 60 years later, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) has reissued…
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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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SIPRI Yearbook 2012: its part in my downfall
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Heh, heh. Well, not really. But in the spirit of Spike Milligan, one could say that the last six months, during which I’ve been working at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) as an editor, have well and truly opened my eyes to what’s goin’ ahn in this crazy, mixed up world.
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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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Stockholm Calling
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Just like a Californian burrito maker, I’ve been preventing myself from spilling the beans by keeping them strictly under wraps (rim-shot!) but now seems as good a moment as any to announce that I will be moving to Stockholm. In ten days.
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Cordite 35.2: Oz-ko (Hanguk-Hoju)
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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)
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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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Cordite 35.1: Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hanguk)
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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)
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Cordite 35.0: Oz-Ko (Envoy)
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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)
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VWC, Kurungabaa, Southerly (IWD)
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Things have been pretty quiet
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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…