CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 118: PRECARIOUS
Released: 3 December 2025

ESSAYS

Mali Harkin-Noack
The Algae Will Stay Another Day

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

I’m staring up at this precious night sky and I wish on a shooting star that the algal bloom will go away. When I look a little harder, I see it’s not a shooting star, but one of Musk’s Starlink Satellites.

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REVIEWS

Nicole Rain Sellers Reviews Ashley Haywood and Brett Cross

Friday, October 10th, 2025

Clustering is a technique for mind-mapping the parts of any whole. Organisms cluster into ecologies, people cluster into communities, and poems cluster into collections. In Polyp and Islands, clusters of cells, beings, and places form and dissolve. Both books explore the flux between separateness and wholeness in nature, each word and line branching into vaster topographies. The poems arrange in organic patterns, then undermine their own classification by splitting, mixing, and rejoining themselves in new arrangements.

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INTERVIEWS

‘Keeping time together’: Andy Jackson in Conversation with Eleni Stecopoulos

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

I first heard of the work of Eleni Stecopoulos while in the US in 2013. I was in San Francisco to spend an afternoon chatting and swimming with Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus, both disability culture activists and writers. Eleni had at the time been working on a series of public conversations and programs at The Poetry Centre at San Francisco State University called The Poetics of Healing. Eleni is a poet and an essayist whose work on embodiment is always political, and vice versa. Petra had hoped to introduce us, but the timing wasn’t right.

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SCHOLARLY

Thomas Moran
Beyond The Warp: Occult Poetics in H D and Robert Duncan

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

Modernist poetry has a fascination with occult knowledge. It is prevalent in American poet Robert Duncan’s unclassifiable book on Hilda Doolittle, the poet known as H.D. (1886-1961).

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GUNCOTTON BLOG

Emilie Collyer and Alex Creece
Submission to Cordite 119: FIT

Friday, October 10th, 2025

Are you fit? For the job? For a run? A gender? For life? Are you fit for purpose? Not fitting is maybe part and parcel of being a POET. But we still want to fit into the culture in which we live. Do we? Or be extremely unfitting. I read articles about middle aged people who want to still be able to fit into their old jeans / bathers / wedding dress. I don’t know where I fit anymore, they seem to be saying.

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