CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 117: NO THEME 14
Released: 12 August 2025

ESSAYS

Alex Creece
NO THEME 14 Editorial

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

The poetry in this issue is damn juicy. As a writer, there’s perhaps an added degree of exposure or vulnerability in submitting a random suite of your poems, unmoored by theme. Showing your backlog = showing your poetic bussy.

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REVIEWS

Jenny Hedley Reviews Peter Rose and Sholto Buck

Thursday, September 11th, 2025

A tiny bag of crystal shard, almost empty, is tucked into Peter Rose’s Rattus Rattus (2005), presumably by its previous St Kilda Library–associated borrower. I am tempted to sample the remnants in order to conjure a different version of (my) critical self — the excuse being that I proposed reviewing Rose’s latest poetry volume Attention, Please! alongside Sholto Buck’s debut In the Printed Version of Heaven through a lens of performative selves. I move the bag from pages to table and back again, entertaining and then shelving temptation, unsure whose impulse will win out: the addictive personality of yore or this stable, routine, maternal self.

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INTERVIEWS

‘We’re all containers for each other’s emotions’: π.ο. in Conversation with Sandy Caldow

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

I first met Sandy Caldow about 30 years ago at Qdos gallery in Lorne, a seaside town in Victoria, where i read poetry for an exhibition. We met up again in Melbourne after she’d left Lorne and moved into a house in Preston – was i in for a surprise! Shifting a worker of clay, like Sandy, into a new studio is a mammoth enterprise – the lift and shift of it is enormous – i pleaded with her to make ‘thimbles’ instead, but she was undeterred.

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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

Kent MacCarter and Alex Creece
Alex Creece on as Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review

Wednesday, September 17th, 2025

After 15 years, 80 consecutive issues, and on the brink of Cordite Publishing’s 30th anniversary, it is my pleasure to announce that I am stepping down as Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review.

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