CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 120: DIALOGUE
Released: 11 May 2026

ESSAYS

Eliza Victoria
A language for grief: Writing horror in fiction and poetry

Monday, May 11th, 2026

I write and read between and across genres, but horror has always been my first love. Much has been written about the appeal and utility of horror, often combining, as sociologist and film critic Andrew Tudor attests, analysis of the texts themselves as well as the genre’s consumers.

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REVIEWS

Rot cycle – the long future: Jeanine Leane reviews Evelyn Araluen

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026

The Rot is the second collection by Bunjalung poet and scholar Evelyn Araluen. While similarities to Araluen’s earlier award-winning work Dropbear are apparent in style, language, and positionality, The Rot grows out of a different socio-cultural context and a different set of material conditions. Both works though, are radical for what they confront – ‘stare back at’ and refuse to look away from. And for what they refuse to allow to defeat them.

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INTERVIEWS

‘Language observes the body, and the body further observes language’: Shastra Deo in conversation with Natsumi Aoyagi

Monday, May 11th, 2026

“We should practice realising that we haven’t been adept at recognising time,” says multidisciplinary artist, mangaka, and poet Natsumi Aoyagi. Described by the 28th Nakahara Chūya Prize judges as a key representative of the future of Japanese poetry, Aoyagi-san consistently pushes the boundaries of poetry and art’s potential as containers of observation, story, and temporality.

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GUNCOTTON BLOG

Maxine Beneba Clarke and Alex Creece
Submission to Cordite 121: NO THEME

Friday, April 24th, 2026

Move me. I’m interested in poems that can reach into the chest and still a heartbeat, if just for a moment. I’m searching for poems that seem simple at first, but somehow continue to haunt for days after the reading. Send me poems that will silently enter the bloodstream, and poems that scream with absolute abandon across the page.

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