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Ryan Scott reviews The Best Australian Poetry 2009 and The Best Australian Poems 2009
The Best Australian Poetry 2009 edited by Alan Wearne University of Queensland Press, 2009 The Best Australian Poems 2009 edited by Robert Adamson Black Inc., 2009 If we seek a division in Australian poetry, we will not find it represented … Continue reading
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Ashley Capes & Graham Nunn: The Death of Poetry in Australian Classrooms
In 1982 Neil Postman first noted that the concept of childhood was disappearing in his book, The Disappearance of Childhood. It's highly unlikely that we'll be saying anything new if we claim that poetry is disappearing from the classroom. And though it is, and has been doing so for decades, poetry itself survives. It's just going to other places. To the small press, to cafes, to cyberspace, even to public transport. Perhaps, if we want poetry to be heard and read in other places too, our society needs to bring it back to schools. Continue reading
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Simply the Best: Cordite's 2009 Top Thirty
Yes, it's that time of year again. Long-term readers will recall that last year's list of our top 30 posts was topped by Stuart Cooke's 'Pastoral' editorial, despite the fact that it was only published in December. This year, events … Continue reading
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Ali Alizadeh: Epic Editorial
When ‘Epic' was suggested as a theme for an issue of Cordite, I was expecting it to be either rejected outright or at least modified into something less archaic. When it was actually chosen as the theme for issue 31 with myself as the guest editor, I was faced with a more pressing concern: would we receive enough suitably epical submissions to justify our choice of this theme? Or would the dearth of appropriate contributions confirm that, as literary critic Tom Winnifrith has written, the epic is ‘as antique as a dinosaur', or, as Mikhail Bakhtin would have it, the epic poem is ‘an already completed genre … distanced, finished and closed'? Continue reading
Libby Hart reviews Dorothy Porter
The Bee Hut by Dorothy Porter
Black Inc., 2009
The Bee Hut is Dorothy Porter's posthumous volume of poetry and her seventh collection to date, although her agent has indicated there are more books to come. Most poems assembled here were written in the last five years of her life and the final poem, ‘View from 417' was written only two weeks before her death from complications associated with breast cancer. In many ways The Bee Hut is a celebration of vitality and inquisitiveness. It brings us a lucid and intimate portrait of a life well lived.
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Simply The Best: Cordite's 2008 Top Thirty
In celebration of our impending 30th issue (and as a subtle way of reminding you, once again, that submissions for CUSTOM/MADE are now open), here's the lowdown on Cordite's thirty most popular posts for the past twelve months, courtesy of … Continue reading
Vale Dorothy Porter
Peter Minter writes: “The second-last day of winter in 1997 seems so far away now, but today I remember it clearly. After her captivating late afternoon reading, Dorothy Porter and I found a corner in the dining room at the Varuna Writers' Centre, Katoomba, the daylight waning outside amidst steely dampness and the trickling departure of friends.” Continue reading
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