FUTURE MACHINES Editorial: Bella Li
Essays:
Unbidden: Settler Poetry in the Presence of Indigenous Sovereignty by Bonny Cassidy
Artwork:
Ten Works by Juan Ford
Scholarly:
‘The birds of paradise sing without a needing a supple branch’: Joseph Brodsky and the Poetics of Exile by Ekaterina Pechenkina
Translingualism, Home, Ambivalence: The Poet Dimitris Tsaloumas by Vrasidas Karalis
Translations:
Three Translated Péter Závada Poems by Mark Baczoni
Three Translated Rajathi Salma Poems by Rizio Yohannan Raj
Three Translated Mardonio Carballo Poems by Ileana Villarreal
Interviews:
We Need to Talk about Caste: Roanna Gonsalves Interviews S Anand
Rilke, Cavafy, Hölderlin: Simeon Kronenberg Interviews Luke Fischer
Chapbooks:
Written Land: A Lionel Fogarty Chapbook curated by Matthew Hall
Things We Inherited: Voices from Africa Curated by Liyou Libsekal with Caroline Uliwa, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Ejiofor Ugwu, Inua Ellams, Ladan Osman, Liyou Libsekal, Nick Makoha, Safia Elhillo and Tjawangwa Dema
CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 55.0: FUTURE MACHINES
Released: 1 August 2016
ESSAYS
Bella Li
Monday, August 1st, 2016
Future Machines EditorialThe theme for this issue arose from a chance encounter with a flying machine and a Frenchman. The illustration above, by Jean-Marc Côté, is one of a series commissioned to be printed on cards for cigarette and cigar boxes at …
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REVIEWS
Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer by Sylvia Martin">Phillip Hall Reviews Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer by Sylvia Martin
Monday, August 15th, 2016 This biography is another powerful testament to the tragedy of difference. Sylvia Martin writes of an idealistic creative pragmatist who was victimised for her gender disphoria and, while loved, never accepted. Aileen Palmer is yet another outspoken and independent woman hounded to the mental hospital and shock treatment.
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INTERVIEWS
Rilke, Cavafy, Hölderlin: Simeon Kronenberg Interviews Luke Fischer
Monday, August 1st, 2016 Luke Fischer has been writing poetry since a relatively early age and has combined this deep engagement with ongoing academic studies in philosophy, along with an interest in music. His first collection of poetry Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013) has been widely regarded as an outstanding debut and was commended in the FAW Anne Elder Award. In 2013, with his wife Dalia Nassar, Luke initiated the highly esteemed Poetry and Music Salon in North Bondi. The private salons have also led to public iterations, including: ‘Poetry and Music Salon: Do Poets Tell the Truth?’ at the 2014 Sydney Writers’ Festival and ‘Poetry and Music Salon: Poetry vs Prose’ at the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival.
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SCHOLARLY
Ekaterina Pechenkina
Monday, August 1st, 2016
‘The birds of paradise sing without a needing a supple branch’: Joseph Brodsky and the Poetics of ExileDuring his lifetime, Joseph Brodsky – political prisoner, exile, Nobel Prize winner – was virtually unknown in his native, Soviet-era Russia. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the early 1990s Brodsky’s poetry became officially available to the public for the first time in the country, which had hitherto so furiously rejected him. By then already an established poet and essayist in the West, his quick (albeit posthumous) homecoming fame shortly followed, positioning Brodsky firmly in the minds of first-time Russian readers as a political martyr, poet-iconoclast and a major symbol of the Russian dissident literary world.
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GUNCOTTON BLOG
Keri Glastonbury and Kent MacCarter
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Submission to Cordite 57: CONFESSIONPoetry for Cordite 57: CONFESSION is guest-edited by Keri Glastonbury. I must confess I’ve made a mess of what should be a small success Courtney Barnett, ‘Pedestrian at Best’ Whether you’re more influenced by Delmore Schwartz’s ‘The Heavy Bear Who …
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