y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review periodical issue  
Alternative title: Explode
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... no. 56.0 November 2016 of Cordite Poetry Review est. 1997 Cordite Poetry Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
EXPLODE Editorial : Awfully Passionate Egregious Demagogueries … Reflections on Absolutes, Straying, Anguish and Bees, Dan Disney , single work essay
Sharon Olds, Gwen Harwood and Dorothy Hewett: Truth, Lies, Poetry, Ann-Marie Priest , single work essay
'In 2008, US poet Sharon Olds came out about her poetry, admitting that her writing is based on her own life. Since the publication of her first book, Satan Says, in 1980, when she was thirty-seven, she’d been evading questions about the biographical basis of her work. In her rare interviews, she would gently correct ‘personal’ to ‘apparently personal’ as a description of her poems and emphasise with kindly patience that they were works of art, not autobiography. Then, in her late sixties, she changed her mind. She confirmed that the man dying slowly from a throat tumour in her book The Father was her own father; that the woman who in a number of poems ties her young daughter to a chair was the poet’s own mother; that the marriage whose end is painfully documented in Stag’s Leap was Olds’s own thirty-two-year marriage. In an email to an interviewer, she explained her re-think with reference to a reading she once gave at a high school. ‘A student said: ‘If I thought you’d made up all the stuff in your poems, I’d be really mad at you,’’ she writes. ‘And I knew how he felt, and in his place I’d feel the same way.’ Far from being offended by the idea that a reader might connect her poems with her life, she had taken that link for granted. She had assumed that the reader would know the poems had emerged from her own experience, even if she had never explicitly said so. ‘It had not crossed my mind really that anyone would make up a life, make up these stories,’ she goes on. ‘It seemed so obvious to me they were being told, sung, from some inner necessity that rose in an actual life.’' (Publication extract)
Plato, Badiou and I : An Experiment in Writerly Happiness, Ali Alizadeh , single work essay
Activist Journal : Ireland and Germany Extraction, 2015-16, John Kinsella , single work diary
Playing with Light and Dark : Amy Hilhorst Interviews David McCooey, Amy Hilhorst (interviewer), single work interview
'I first became interested in David McCooey’s work while studying an Honours unit at the University of Western Australia, where for an assessment I responded to his essay on Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s poetry, only to learn that he too had taken the same unit some years before. David and I caught up on the UWA grounds, assailed by the mockery of kookaburras and occasional bursts of sunlight (literally star struck), to chat about the process of drafting his latest collection.' (Introduction)
Within Limitations = Binnen Beperkingeni"You get used to your format. Walls built up out of patience, the height of the = Je went aan je formaat. De muren gestapeld uit geduld, de hoogte", Ester Naomi Perquin , David Colmer (translator), single work poetry
Letters to a P.O. Box = Brieven Onder Nummeri"First you need to learn to write to a woman (a letter = Eerst moet je leren schrijven aan een vrouw (een brief die", Ester Naomi Perquin , David Colmer (translator), single work poetry
Bart V.i"There were people there who looked at me. A toddler with an ice-cream, = Er waren mensen bij die naar me keken. Een kleuter met een ijsje,", Ester Naomi Perquin , David Colmer (translator), single work poetry
46.i"the other day my friend was in the air she was flying to istanbul the morning of", Ellena Savage , single work poetry
Popping Candy by the Kerbi"This suburb is getting crowded.", Ann Vickery , single work poetry
24.i"stammer stilt s", Chris Mansell , single work poetry
Listeningi"Rain falls on the tin roof", Janet Galbraith , single work poetry
In-Roadsi"Strange temples vie their architects.", Patricia Sykes , single work poetry
Misunderstandingi"A kind of lust forces us back", Angela Gardner , single work poetry
What Lies Brokeni"This shard of Pangea’s shattered plate.", Rachael Mead , single work poetry
From Sonnet(s)i"desire", Daniel Pilkington , single work poetry
Song Not for Youi"Crooked blood, stunted hands, cripple,", Andy Jackson , single work poetry
6-Word Stories (50 of Them)i"1. BBQ: Zero separation, bed being the body.", Yu Ouyang , single work poetry
High Tidei"tide memory trains", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry
Legitimate Fragmenti"can you le gi ti mate ly frag ment ?", Jarad Bruinstroop , single work poetry
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