Cordite Poetry Review #17: DRIVER

This image, by Cordite editor David Prater, shows the interior of the Austin Car manufacturing plant on Dudley Street, West Melbourne. Read more ...
FEATURES
THE DRIVER IS YOU
Andrew Cox, singer/guitarist with legendary Australian band The Fauves explains the difference between lyrics and poetry, the meaning of the word "Orgamosarion" and the demise of the band's infamous Tarago van. As an added bonus, we nominate our top ten "driver" songs from their back catalogue! 1,2,3,4 -->
ARCHIVING THE APOCALYPSE
Margaret Phillips, Director of Digital Archiving at the National Library of Australia, has the unenviable task of archiving and cataloguing Australian websites. What drives here is "working on something that matters - the collection and preservation of Australia's heritage online ..." Find out how it's done. Read! -->
CAMERON HAYES
Evan Maloney writes: "Cameron Hayes is something of an enigma in the contemporary art world: he doesnít live in London, New York, or even Sydney or Melbourne in his native Australia. He lives on Melville Island off the northern coast of Australia, a large island which has a strong Aboriginal arts community, many crocodiles and very little else." Go!-->

17 DRIVER
Poetry Editor: Liam Ferney

Robert James Berry
Seamark

Sarah French
weeds

Martin Bennett
LATE PERFORMANCE

Eli Jones
[untitled]

Michael Farrell
starship troopers
anorexias

Ingrid Ruthig
Never just the road

Alan Wearne
My Old Man's a Groovy Old Man

Mark Allinson
Harmless?

Simon Hall
Car List (audio)

THE WOMAN WHO KNOWS LATIN
Lucina Kathmann writes: "In the last few years the International PEN Women Writers Committee organized two conferences in Guadalajara on Censorship and Self-Censorship. At both of them, I heard the same comment, 'Yes, governments and paramilitary groups do horrible things to women writers, but these dangers seem remote compared to what we do to ourselves. The problem that we fight every day is self-censorship.' ..." Inglès | Español
LOUISE SWINN ON DEF JAM!
"I attend quite a few readings and spoken word events in Melbourne and I wanted to see if there was anything I could learn from the Def Poetry Jam, a Tony Award-winning stage production that grew out of a television show created by Def Jam co-founder, Russell Simmons. But for the most part, I just wanted to be entertained." Yo! -->
EDITORIAL:
David Prater reports back from the World Haiku Association conference, Haiku: Bridges Around the World, held in October 2003 in Ten'ri, Japan. Arigato!