Welcome to the dreamy village of Mulloway, population 28.1, set in the backblocks of the Hawkesbury, somewhere in the vicinity of Sandy Bay, Peat Island and the Angler’s Rest. The place is awash with ribbon-fish shaped streamers and the sound of a parade of Customlines passing down the main street toward the water, all to a sound track of late-period Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris …
Paul Auster’s career has meandered from poetry to prose to filmmaking, and gives no indication of slowing down just yet. The Brooklyner spoke to George Dunford about collaboration, word-houses, chasing the perfect page, and his twelfth novel Man in the Dark, set to hit shelves this September.
In December 2007 Canberra-based poet John Leonard wrapped up his innings as poetry editor of Overland, the Melbourne-based journal whose motto is Temper democratic, bias Australian. We thought it might be a good idea to find out a bit more about this John Leonard (as opposed to the other one(s)) and so Cordite editor David [...]
Okay this was how I was going to start this editorial:
As themes go, this issue’s is, if nothing else, topical. Hillary Clinton’s whole campaign in the run up to the presidential nomination will live or die on the basis of experience. Short of letting you know how much time I have spent on youtube watching [...]
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Issue 26.1 of Cordite Poetry Review, the all prose poetry edition. When I started thinking about which writers to include in this issue of Cordite, I wanted to show the range of styles and approaches within the prose poetry genre.
INNOCENCE: Blamelessness. INNOCENT: Not hurtful. One free from fault. Approaching the world with an attitude unwounded and harmless. Having a vigorous and unprejudiced perception that does not expect what it will find. Being prepared not only to understand but to reunderstand.
When you think of ways to interrogate innocence, you will sooner or later come to a moral dichotomy. It can be unpackaged as either good or bad. It can oppose guilt, and by implication your innocence allows that you have done only what is good, what is moral. Or it can mean you lack experience, [...]
We’ve all read those interviews where the interviewer begins by making a few remarks about his or her subject – perhaps something clichéd about a ‘piercing gaze’ or ‘bubbly persona’ – as a way of easing the reader into what promises to be a puff piece or a booster article.
Often these articles function as a [...]
In 2003 Cordite commissioned Anna Hedigan to review the websites of Australia’s established literary journals. Now, four years later, we ask: what’s changed? Genevieve Tucker’s update looks at the online presences of some of Australia’s litjournals in the context of online content licensing, to give our readers an idea of the rocky road some of [...]
