- Australian PoetryLocality
- The Love feelingsMedia/News Company
- Sydney Review of BooksMagazine
'A translation has a dual nature, as product and process, verb and noun. The process always entails a balancing act between two cultures, which to a greater or lesser degree becomes apparent in the final text. That final text, again (perhaps evoking a Borgesian garden of forking paths), is two things at once: a variation, a transmutation of a preceding work, a text analogous to the original; and a new work in its own right.' - Gabriel García Ochoa on Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórques and Alí Calderón, translated by Mario Licón Cabrera and with introduction by Peter Boyle, Vagabond Press.
http://cordite.org.au/…/ochoa-cabrera-lamas-bojorques-cald…/
'The ‘On’ beginning every new essay signals the collection’s pliability, a tapestry of polymorphic prose that is insistent on ‘entering into and being involved in a rich social situation’' - Erin Thornback on Andrew Sant, Puncher & Wattmann
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'Most of the poems of Flat Exit are love letters, implied dialogues, addressed to a you, a shifting second person whose actions, appearance or absence shape a transitive – or, rather, intersubjective – poetic voice which is both queer and queering.' - Peter Kirkpatrick on Broede Carmody's first collection, launching soon with Jessica Alice and Adolfo Aranjuez. Get there if you can.
Cordite Poetry Review added an event.
Please join Broede Carmody and Cordite Books for the launch of 'Flat Exit' ... Broede's first full-length collection of poetry. The event will be at Aeso Studio, and launched by Jessica Alice. Adolfo Aranjuez will read as well.
Open event, please invite your pals. Books will be for sale at the event, and at discounted prices for multiple copies.
Can't wait that long to get a copy? No problem, it's for sale here:
...https://corditebooks.org.au/collections/…/products/flat-exit
Read Peter Kirkpatrick's generous introduction here:
http://cordite.org.au/guncotton/kirkpatrick-carmody/
See you then and there.
'One last thing, however, should not go unsaid about Hemensley and this collection. Despite his 50 years in Melbourne, with only occasional trips back to Britain, Hemensley remains, in a true sense, a poet of certain English landscapes, Dorset in particular.' - Geoff Page on Kris Hemensley.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/…/5dbe4ffe22b2fb2cdacccead1…
Says Hile, 'The call for poems for this issue, MATHEMATICS, is therefore at once as finite and as infinite as it gets. If you’ve been writing poems about the universal or the particular, or whatever lies between, I’d like to read them.'
'Cahill combines history, culture, storytelling, hunting and nature, demonstrating her ability to powerfully blend the local and the global, the specific and the universal, the constructed and the natural.' Nat O'Reilly on Michelle Cahill, Arc Publications.
'The blurring of boundaries between the physical and mythical worlds is analogous to the border crossings between the conscious and unconscious forces that constitute the signifying processes in any production of meaning. The poetic voice gives articulation to this dynamic activity, where the speaking persona is constantly confronted by some unknown other.' - Dominique Hecq on Tusiata Avia, Recent Work Press
A worthwhile rerun.
'The United Nations deemed The Intervention as ‘race-based welfare quarantining, racially discriminating, an infringement on the human rights of Aboriginal people living in the NT’. Soon after, the government announced the closure of The Intervention, and announced a new policy titled Stronger Futures. It’s the same policy.' - Ali Cobby Eckermann
'The fluctuation of colour is an apparition, we might surmise, a continuum that is rich but also delimited by the powers of darkness and light. Despite its profusion of colour, then, a consciousness of containment infuses the volume.' Anne-Marie Newton on Susan Fealy, UWA Publishing.
'And just as inevitably as this poetry raises the issues of the surface and the depths, so it also has to deal with ethical issues as well as worry about where such issues fit into the broader philosophical scheme of things embodied in the symbol of the ever present sea.' - Martin Duwell on Brook Emery, Gloria SMH.
Omar Sakr continues to burn your house down, this time through the radio on ABC RN. Amazin', but true. Have a listen. Have the book.
'I start by emphasising Questel’s relation to Brathwaite vs. Walcott not to suggest that his corpus is epiphenomenal to or symptomatic of that headline aesthetic battle, but to point to the fact that he developed his poetic style at a time when an independent field of aesthetic position-taking had established itself in the region.' - Ben Etherington on Victor Questel.
http://cordite.org.au/reviews/deconstructing-decolonisation/
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The magnificent Vladimir Lucien guest-edits the poetry in this mini issue coming hot on the heels of NO THEME VI. There is certainly more going on than countrie...s represented here, but this issue includes work by Kwesi Abbensetts, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Chadd Cumberbatch, Melville Cooke, Linda Deane, Royston Emmanuel, Ben Etherington, Soy Forde, Richard Georges, Juleus Ghunta, Yashika Graham, Adrian Green, Jannine Horsford, Monica Minnott, Felicia Montoute, Shivanee Ramlochan, Tiana Reid, Damian Femi Rene, Colin Robinson, Des Seebaran, Lesley-Ann Wanliss and Tiphanie Yanique.
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'The second section of Cannibal centers America more explicitly: the stuff of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia or a brother—another brother—gunned down. In ‘Another White Christmas in Virginia,’ the colour white has so much symbolism it is on the verge of explosion.' Tiana Reid on Tiphanie Yanique and Safiya Sinclair.
