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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... no. 91 May 2019 of Cordite Poetry Review est. 1997 Cordite Poetry Review
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'I’m writing this after news that W S Merwin has died. His Selected Poems still sits on my bedside table, never far away in case of a spare moment. The poem ‘Leviathan’, was something of an inspiration for this issue, a rolling, musical masterpiece that echoes, for me at least, Tennyson’s ‘The Kraken’. It was first published in Merwin’s Green with Beasts in 1956, and speaks with memorable power and control, like Darth Vader.' (Nathan Curnow : Editorial introduction)

Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    12 Panels by Chris Gooch 

    On Being Sanguine: Two Years of Panic and a Response to Terror in Christchurch by Charles Olsen
    A Buzz in the Retina: On Translating Luljeta Lleshanaku

    5 Translated Yosuke Tanaka Poems By Paul Hetherington, Andrew Houwen, Shane Strange and Yosuke Tanaka

    Chorography and Toute-eau in the Waters of Lower Murray Country by Camille Rouliere

    Poet Wrestling with the Poetics of Unsolvable Physics By Rosebud Ben-Oni

    Mother by Natalie Wang

    Oh God, I have a body By Alayne Dick

    Reverse Godzilla By John McDonough

    Physics 101 By Cortney Lamar Charleston

    Poltergeist By Rochelle D’Silva

    How I witch 1692 By Gail Ingram

    Multiple Scarecrows Attempt to Rob a Bank By Alex Aldred

    Hôn By Ron Riekki

    Changing Their Spots By Andrew Weatherly

    Feral By Oz Hardwick

    Axe By Jade Riordan

    Aurora: Childhood Models of Movie Monsters By Eric Paul Shaffer

    Apologia By Mark Ward

    This Morning, By Grant Quackenbush

    Tricoteuse By Rose Peoples

    from Red Black & Blues By Christopher Patton

    Mutant By S Niroshini

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Deaf Rough Trade : Defending Poetry to ‘Regular People’, Alice Allan , single work essay

'I snap a picture of a poem and send it to a friend. I send it because this friend says he is newly interested in poetry. I send it because this is a poem that intrigues me.' (Introduction)

Poetry, Whatsoever : Blake, Blau DuPlessis, and an Expansive Definition of the Poem, Ali Smith , single work essay

'William Blake pinches himself. Yes! He is alive, not in heaven or hell for all eternity, but on earth, for just as long as I need him for the purposes of this essay. In the almost two hundred years since William Blake died many things have changed. William Blake knows very well that he was not all that successful last time he was alive, definitely not famous. He was hardworking, but also pretty weird, and not great at self-promotion. Luckily, William Blake has a smart phone so he can look himself up on Encyclopaedia Britannica (William Blake avoids Wikipedia because it campaigned to weaken Australian copyright law). William Blake reads that after he died the Pre-Raphaelites got interested in his work, and so did Yeats, T S Eliot, and Northrop Frye. William Blake does a quick vanity search on duckduckgo.com. There are a lot of entries. Wow, his drawings and paintings are in the Tate! And his poem ‘Jerusalem’ is sung at rugby matches, cricket games, and Women’s Institute meetings. You can even buy collections of his poetry in the bookshop in Wollongong Mall. And then an ad pops up for a Dr. Martens boot that features his painting ‘Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils’. William Blake thinks a pair of Birkenstocks would suit him better, but he’s not sure of his shoe size, so he has to leave this essay and wander down to the shops to try on sandals, where he will discover that if you say ‘tyger tyger’ to a person of a certain age, they quite often say ‘burning bright’ back to you. Goodbye William Blake. Enjoy the shoe shopping. We’re going to stay here and talk about poetry.' (Introduction)

‘That Is Some Crafty Bite’ : Trisha Pender Interviews Melinda Bufton, Trisha Pender (interviewer), single work interview

'In her eagerly awaited second collection, Superette (Puncher & Wattman, 2018), Melinda Bufton delivers dramatically on the promise announced in her 2014 debut, Girlery (Inken Publisch, 2014). Girlery performs a provocative en guard to a literary culture overly sanguine in its dismissal of all things ‘girl’. In it, Bufton subverts the charges of superficiality and irrelevance that are often levelled at the popular culture of girls and instead celebrates this culture in loving, defiant detail. Fans of Bufton’s poetry, among whom I happily count myself, will be delighted to know that her second collection does not tone down, or retreat from, the concerns of her first. If anything, this collection is louder, smarter, deeper, and more glorious. Superette is Girlery’s dark and dangerous big sister.' (Introduction)

‘You’re Never Disembodied from the Action’ : Dylan Frusher Interviews Judith Beveridge, Dylan Frusher (interviewer), single work interview

'Judith Beveridge is the author of six collections of poetry and throughout her writing life she has received multiple awards, including the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. As a teacher of creative writing at Sydney University and the University of Newcastle as well as the poetry editor of Meanjin, Beveridge is undoubtedly one of Australia’s most engaged, dedicated and supportive writers.'  (Introduction)

Prognosisi"Time is suddenly precious.", Robin M. Eames , single work poetry
Circe’s Potionsi"After the surgery", Robin M. Eames , single work poetry
Crip Mythici"my body is not my body", Robin M. Eames , single work poetry
Last Will and Lamenti"I refuse to compose your elegy", Robin M. Eames , single work poetry
Amazonsi"I have loved women", Robin M. Eames , single work poetry
Gender of the Nighti"I love a woman taller than sunbeams", Robin M. Eames , single work poetry
Aussi / Or: Un Coup de Dés and Mistranslation in the Antipodes, Toby Fitch , single work essay

'‘Shipwrecked on the shoals of contingency’, Australian poetry is haunted by Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de Dés. Its publication in Cosmopolis in Paris in 1897 struck a nerve or, rather, a vessel within Australian poetry bloodlines, starting with Christopher Brennan. Un Coup de dés was the score that inspired him to compose ‘Musicopoematographoscope’, also in 1897, a large handwritten mimique manuscript, or pastiche, that transposed the more extreme aesthetics of an avant-garde French Symbolism into the Australian poetic psyche. Now well into the twenty-first century, Un Coup de dés is still a blueprint for experimentation in Australian poetry, spawning a number of versions, two of which are homophonic mistranslations – ‘A Fluke’ by Chris Edwards and ‘Desmond’s Coupé’ by John Tranter – both published in 2006, and both revelling / rebelling in the abject, and in “errors and wrecks’. This essay/assay provides a comparative reading of these homophonic bedfellows, traces their relation(ship)s to their antecedents, to various theories of translation and punning, and begins an enquiry into the significant influence of Mallarmé’s great ‘vessel’ on Australian poetry and poetics.' (Introduction)

All The Things I Kepti"Grief is the feeling you have", Nike Sulway , single work poetry
Yesi"Yes and I told Him that our blood is not unclean yes and they thought of us only", Em König , single work poetry
Who Shot Camilo Catrillanca?i"Who shot Camilo Catrillanca?", Juan Garrido Salgado , single work poetry
Robin Wright in House of Cards OMGi"ROBIN WRIGHT!", Emilie Zoey Baker , single work poetry
Clones Don’t Sleepi"My clone is acting strangely.", Emily Meller , single work poetry
Fear and Other Feelingsi"the", Claire Albrecht , single work poetry
A Clown Car Named Desirei"spending a summer afternoon eating a box of cherries in bed", Jini Maxwell , single work poetry
Eurydice: A Triptych, Kirstyn McDermott , sequence poetry
Recipei"Take:", Kirstyn McDermott , single work poetry

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