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Submissions now open for Cordite 34: Children of Malley II
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Five years ago, Cordite asked the suburban brothers and sisters of Australia to rifle through the papers of deceased siblings, to upend concertina files, to potter about amongst lathes and fan belts in dusty garden sheds and see what poetic … Continue reading
As part of our thirty-third issue, Creative Commons, we made all the poems in the issue available for download, and asked our readers and contributors to remix the poems, in any way they saw fit (read the original submission guidelines here). Continue reading
I’ll be the first to admit that I am a recovering Sting fan. Having been brought up on the collected works of The Police, and having then duly gone out and bought Sting’s first two solo albums, and then having shelled out fifty bucks to see the man in concert, I can safely say we’ve got some history. Continue reading
While things have been a little quiet over at Nick Whittock’s Ashes blog of late – unsurprising really as, erm, there hasn’t been an Ashes contest for a while – Nick’s gotten into the spirit of Creative Commons by unleashing (is that the right word? maybe ‘posting’ would do) a choose-your-own-poem adventure game of his own. Continue reading
We’re now well into the second half of Zombie Haikunaut Renga, with over 400 comments and counting on the whole shebang. Ashley Capes has been doing a sterling job at herding the Zomkunauts, and the results so far are pretty spine-chilling. Continue reading
All Together Now: A Digital Bridge for Auckland and Sydney (Kia Kotahi Rā: He Arawhata Ipurangi mō Tamaki Makau Rau me Poihākena) is a fascinating project which brings together poets from Aotearoa and Australia via two conferences and an innovative digital platform hosted by the always-awesome New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre. Continue reading
Those of you with long memories may just be able to recall that last December, at the time of the release of our EPIC issue, we also kick-started a little something called Post-Epic, which isn’t a genre – yet. Continue reading
