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data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="pastandparallel-ortiz" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/pastandparallel-ortiz-204x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/pastandparallel-ortiz.png" /></a> 167 </div> 168 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/tabassum-ahmed-ortiz-marque/" title="Permalink to Afterlives, or, memory holding memory: Munira Tabassum Ahmed reviews Kaya Ortiz and Shey Marque" rel="bookmark">Afterlives, or, memory holding memory: Munira Tabassum Ahmed reviews Kaya Ortiz and Shey Marque</a></h3> 169 <div class="article-meta"> 170 <span class="author">By 171 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/muniraahmed/">Munira Tabassum Ahmed</a> </span> 172 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 173 <div class="entry-summary"> 174 <p>The first reference to water in Kaya Ortizâs collection <em>Past and Parallel Lives</em> (2025) is âmemory like water, fickle and evaporatingâ (âFinal Boarding Callâ, 3). A positioning that struck me, disoriented me â foregrounding the properties of water as subsequent to something greater, vulnerable to temperature and environment, water as something shaped and controlled.</p> 175 </div> 176 <div class="article-utility"> 177 <span> 178 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/tabassum-ahmed-ortiz-marque/" title="3:04 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">September 30, 2026</span></a> </span> 179 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 180 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/kaya-ortiz/" rel="tag">Kaya Ortiz</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/munira-tabassum-ahmed/" rel="tag">Munira Tabassum Ahmed</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/shey-marque/" rel="tag">Shey Marque</a> </span> --> 181 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 182 </div> 183 <div id="post-47121" class="post-47121 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-emilie-collyer tag-grace-roodenrys"> 184 <div class="article-featured-image">
185 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/roodenrys-collyer/"><img width="571" height="812" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/asifimreallythere-collyer-1.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/asifimreallythere-collyer-1.png 571w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/asifimreallythere-collyer-1-211x300.png 211w" sizes="(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px" data-attachment-id="47124" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/roodenrys-collyer/attachment/asifimreallythere-collyer-2/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/asifimreallythere-collyer-1.png" data-orig-size="571,812" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="asifimreallythere-collyer" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/asifimreallythere-collyer-1-211x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/asifimreallythere-collyer-1.png" /></a> 186 </div> 187 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/roodenrys-collyer/" title="Permalink to Stunt double: Grace Roodenrys reviews Emilie Collyerâs As If Iâm Really There" rel="bookmark">Stunt double: Grace Roodenrys reviews Emilie Collyerâs <em>As If Iâm Really There</em></a></h3> 188 <div class="article-meta"> 189 <span class="author">By 190 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/graceroodenrys/">Grace Roodenrys</a> </span> 191 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 192 <div class="entry-summary"> 193 <p>Vagabond Press does an excellent cover. The windborne dress on the front of Emilie Collyerâs <em>As If Iâm Really There</em> reminded me a little of the work of Francesca Woodman, the prodigious young American photographer known, among other things, for suiciding by jumping from a loft window at the age of twenty-two. Woodmanâs photographs were mostly self-portraits â frequently nudes â keenly strange and clearly obsessed by absence. </p> 194 </div> 195 <div class="article-utility"> 196 <span> 197 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/roodenrys-collyer/" title="4:13 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">September 13, 2026</span></a> </span> 198 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 199 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/emilie-collyer/" rel="tag">Emilie Collyer</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/grace-roodenrys/" rel="tag">Grace Roodenrys</a> </span> --> 200 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 201 </div> 202 <div id="post-46732" class="post-46732 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-alex-creece tag-toby-fitch"> 203 <div class="article-featured-image"> 204 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/creece-fitch/"><img width="640" height="896" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1-768x1075.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1-732x1024.jpg 732w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1.jpg 1772w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100v
204w, 640px" data-attachment-id="46733" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/creece-fitch/attachment/or-tobyfitch-1/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1772,2480" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="OR-tobyfitch (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1-214x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/OR-tobyfitch-1-732x1024.jpg" /></a> 205 </div> 206 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/creece-fitch/" title="Permalink to Alex Creece reviews Toby Fitch’s Or: An Autobiography" rel="bookmark">Alex Creece reviews Toby Fitch’s <em>Or: An Autobiography</em></a></h3> 207 <div class="article-meta"> 208 <span class="author">By 209 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/alexcreece/">Alex Creece</a> </span> 210 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 211 <div class="entry-summary"> 212 <p>The Or tree, the central totem in Toby Fitchâs <em>Or: An Autobiography</em>, grows understoreys and overstoreys; is fertilised with citational compost; cross-pollinates with Leslie Feinberg, with Judith Butler, with Travis Alabanza, with the wind-blistered/blustered queer body. The tree blossoms before the reader. It spills appendices into its rhizosphere, grafts its scions with collage and boasts its landscaped âtoby-aryâ.</p> 213 </div> 214 <div class="article-utility"> 215 <span> 216 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/creece-fitch/" title="3:36 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">June 24, 2026</span></a> </span> 217 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 218 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/alex-creece/" rel="tag">Alex Creece</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/toby-fitch/" rel="tag">Toby Fitch</a> </span> --> 219 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 220 </div> 221 <div id="post-46687" class="post-46687 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-anne-marie-te-whiu tag-j-marahuyo tag-jazz-money tag-zowie-douglas-kinghorn"> 222 <div class="article-featured-image"> 223 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/douglas-kinghorn-te-whiu-marahuyo/"><img width="640" height="983" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mettle-tewhiu-768x1179.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mettle-tewhiu-768x1179.jpg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mettle-tewhiu-195x300.jpg 195w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mettle-tewhiu-667x1024.jpg 667w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mettle-tewhiu.jpg 1000w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="46688" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/douglas-kinghorn-te-whiu-marahuyo/attachment/mettle-tewhiu/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mettle-tewhiu.jpg" data-orig-size="1000,1535" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="mettle-tewhiu" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mettle-tewhiu-195x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mettle-tewhiu-667x1024.jpg" /></a> 224 </div> 225 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/douglas-kinghorn-te-whiu-marahuyo/" title="Permalink to Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Anne-Marie Te Whiu and J. Marahuyo" rel="bookmark">Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Anne-Marie Te Whiu and J. Marahuyo</a></h3> 226 <div class="article-meta"> 227 <span class="author">By 228 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/zowiedouglaskinghorn/">Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn</a> </span> 229 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 230 <div class="entry-summary"> 231 <p>Two debut poetry collections stuck with me as outliers in the 2025 publishing landscape: <em>Mettle</em> by Anne-Marie Te Whiu and <em>crying gorgeously; 4:37 am</em> by J. Marahuyo, both of which stand apart in their eclectic subject matter and formal experimentation. Cleaving apart taboos and encrypting them into emojis, concrete poems and ancestral languages, these collections deal with everything from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to deep sea phenomena, the messiness of sex to family violence.</p> 232 </div> 233 <div class="article-utility"> 234 <span> 235 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/douglas-kinghorn-te-whiu-marahuyo/" title="9:05 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">June 10, 2026</span></a> </span> 236 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 237 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/anne-marie-te-whiu/" rel="tag">Anne-Marie Te Whiu</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/j-marahuyo/" rel="tag">J. Marahuyo</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/jazz-money/" rel="tag">Jazz Money</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/zowie-douglas-kinghorn/" rel="tag">
237Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn</a> </span> --> 238 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 239 </div> 240 <div id="post-46669" class="post-46669 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-amy-crutchfield tag-eunice-andrada tag-jocasta-suzanne"> 241 <div class="article-featured-image"> 242 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/suzanne-andrada-crutchfield/"><img width="352" height="500" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kontra-andrada.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kontra-andrada.jpg 352w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kontra-andrada-211x300.jpg 211w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px" data-attachment-id="46671" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/suzanne-andrada-crutchfield/attachment/kontra-andrada/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kontra-andrada.jpg" data-orig-size="352,500" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="kontra-andrada" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kontra-andrada-211x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kontra-andrada.jpg" /></a> 243 </div> 244 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/suzanne-andrada-crutchfield/" title="Permalink to Unconsenting to allegory: Jocasta Suzanne reviews Eunice Andrada and Amy Crutchfield" rel="bookmark">Unconsenting to allegory: Jocasta Suzanne reviews Eunice Andrada and Amy Crutchfield</a></h3> 245 <div class="article-meta"> 246 <span class="author">By 247 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/jocelynsuzanne/">Jocasta Suzanne</a> </span> 248 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 249 <div class="entry-summary"> 250 <p>Allegory demands perfection of itself â the relation between A and B has to be airtight to function. Insofar as it can only be perfect as mediated through our lives, allegory demands perfection from us as well. It would make sense, then, that in a period of breakdown allegory becomes stressed, intensified to a pitch of delirious, panicky rage; it collapses in on its own perfection, black-hole style. </p> 251 </div> 252 <div class="article-utility"> 253 <span> 254 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/suzanne-andrada-crutchfield/" title="9:57 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">May 27, 2026</span></a> </span> 255 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 256 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/amy-crutchfield/" rel="tag">Amy Crutchfield</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/eunice-andrada/" rel="tag">Eunice Andrada</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/jocasta-suzanne/" rel="tag">Jocasta Suzanne</a> </span> --> 257 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 258 </div> 259 <div id="post-46661" class="post-46661 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-eve-tuck tag-evelyn-araluen tag-jeanine-leane"> 260 <div class="article-featured-image"> 261 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/leane-araluen/"><img width="640" height="983" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/therot-araluen-768x1179.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/therot-araluen-768x1179.jpg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/therot-araluen-195x300.jpg 195w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/therot-araluen-667x1024.jpg 667w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/therot-araluen.jpg 1000w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100v
261w, 640px" data-attachment-id="46663" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/leane-araluen/attachment/therot-araluen/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/therot-araluen.jpg" data-orig-size="1000,1535" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="therot-araluen" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/therot-araluen-195x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/therot-araluen-667x1024.jpg" /></a> 262 </div> 263 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/leane-araluen/" title="Permalink to Rot cycle â the long future: Jeanine Leane reviews Evelyn Araluen" rel="bookmark">Rot cycle â the long future: Jeanine Leane reviews Evelyn Araluen</a></h3> 264 <div class="article-meta"> 265 <span class="author">By 266 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/jeanineleane/">Jeanine Leane</a> </span> 267 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 268 <div class="entry-summary"> 269 <p><em>The Rot</em> is the second collection by Bunjalung poet and scholar Evelyn Araluen. While similarities to Araluenâs earlier award-winning work <em>Dropbear</em> are apparent in style, language, and positionality, <em>The Rot</em> grows out of a different socio-cultural context and a different set of material conditions. Both works though, are radical for what they confront â âstare back atâ and refuse to look away from. And for what they refuse to allow to defeat them.</p> 270 </div> 271 <div class="article-utility"> 272 <span> 273 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/leane-araluen/" title="11:00 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">May 20, 2026</span></a> </span> 274 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 275 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/eve-tuck/" rel="tag">Eve Tuck</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/evelyn-araluen/" rel="tag">Evelyn Araluen</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/jeanine-leane/" rel="tag">Jeanine Leane</a> </span> --> 276 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 277 </div> 278 <div id="post-46214" class="post-46214 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-declan-fry tag-ender-baskan-2"> 279 <div class="article-featured-image"> 280 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/fry-baskan/"><img width="640" height="908" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers-768x1090.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="Two Hundred Million Musketeers by Ender BaÅkan" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers-768x1090.jpg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers-211x300.jpg 211w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers-722x1024.jpg 722w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers-1083x1536.jpg 1083w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers-1444x2048.jpg 1444w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers.jpg 1748w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="46215" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/fry-baskan/attachment/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers.jpg" data-orig-size="1748,2480" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers-211x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/enderbaskan-twohundredmillionmusketeers-722x1024.jpg" /></a> 281 </div> 282 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/fry-baskan/" title="Permalink to Rawdogging the system: Declan Fry reviews Ender BaÅkanâs Two Hundred Million Musketeer
282s" rel="bookmark">Rawdogging the system: Declan Fry reviews Ender BaÅkanâs <em>Two Hundred Million Musketeers</em></a></h3> 283 <div class="article-meta"> 284 <span class="author">By 285 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/declanfry/">Declan Fry</a> </span> 286 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 287 <div class="entry-summary"> 288 <p>Ender risks the rawdog. To capture things in mid-flight. It keeps him hungry. Keeps you honest. </p> 289<p>What draws Ender to this? Ask Sophia, his partner. Sheâs 80% rawdog. As in, will âPERFORM ANY ACT RECKLESSLY / OR WITHOUT PREPARATION.â As in: âA MEASURE OF RISK TAKINGâ (âHot Waterâ, 39).</p> 290 </div> 291 <div class="article-utility"> 292 <span> 293 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/fry-baskan/" title="11:12 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">April 1, 2026</span></a> </span> 294 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 295 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/declan-fry/" rel="tag">Declan Fry</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/ender-baskan-2/" rel="tag">Ender BaÅkan</a> </span> --> 296 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 297 </div> 298 <div id="post-46189" class="post-46189 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-cadence-chung tag-shu-ling-chua"> 299 <div class="article-featured-image"> 300 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/chua-chung/"><img width="640" height="893" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maddiva-cadencechung-768x1071.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="Front cover of 'Mad Diva' by Cadence Chung." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maddiva-cadencechung-768x1071.jpg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maddiva-cadencechung-215x300.jpg 215w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maddiva-cadencechung-735x1024.jpg 735w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maddiva-cadencechung.jpg 1000w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="46191" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/chua-chung/attachment/maddiva-cadencechung/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maddiva-cadencechung.jpg" data-orig-size="1000,1394" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="maddiva-cadencechung" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maddiva-cadencechung-215x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maddiva-cadencechung-735x1024.jpg" /></a> 301 </div> 302 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/chua-chung/" title="Permalink to Shu-Ling Chua reviews Cadence Chung’s Mad Diva" rel="bookmark">Shu-Ling Chua reviews Cadence Chung’s <em>Mad Diva</em></a></h3> 303 <div class="article-meta"> 304 <span class="author">By 305 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/shulingchua/">Shu-Ling Chua</a> </span> 306 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 307 <div class="entry-summary"> 308 <p>My mother once said, âYou have too many desires. If you had fewer desires, youâd be happier.â I wish that I then had Cadence Chungâs retort: âeasy to blame desire easy to blame it on the want the wanton of a womanâ (15). Breathlessly dispensing with punctuation, these words appear in a poem titled âDesioâ, early in Chungâs sophomore collection, <em>Mad Diva</em>. </p> 309 </div> 310 <div class="article-utility"> 311 <span> 312 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/chua-chung/" title="5:01 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 2, 2026</span></a> </span> 313 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 314 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/cadence-chung/" rel="tag">Cadence Chung</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/shu-ling-chua/" rel="tag">Shu-Ling Chua</a> </span> --> 315 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 316 </div> 317 <div id="post-45855" class="post-45855 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-angela-meyer tag-louis-armand tag-sarah-temporal"> 318 <div class="article-featured-image">
319 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/meyer-armand-temporal/"><img width="547" height="800" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/infantilisms-armand.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'Infantilisms' by Louis Armand." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/infantilisms-armand.png 547w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/infantilisms-armand-205x300.png 205w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px" data-attachment-id="45858" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/meyer-armand-temporal/attachment/infantilisms-armand/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/infantilisms-armand.png" data-orig-size="547,800" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="infantilisms-armand" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/infantilisms-armand-205x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/infantilisms-armand.png" /></a> 320 </div> 321 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/meyer-armand-temporal/" title="Permalink to Angela Meyer reviews Louis Armand and Sarah Temporal" rel="bookmark">Angela Meyer reviews Louis Armand and Sarah Temporal</a></h3> 322 <div class="article-meta"> 323 <span class="author">By 324 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/angelameyer/">Angela Meyer</a> </span> 325 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 326 <div class="entry-summary"> 327 <p>Louis Armandâs <em>Infantilisms</em> and Sarah Temporalâs <em>Tight Bindings</em> (both Puncher & Wattmann, 2024) are disparate collections which overlap in their ability to make the parts speak for the whole. Armandâs, in a resistant, disjointed way â allowing the reader to locate cultural, social, historical webs and associated meanings, or just stray off onto rich tangents of their own. In Temporalâs, weâre more gently guided, with its through lines of fairytale, nature (in its various forms), the body, birth, and concepts of girl, daughter, mother, woman.</p> 328 </div> 329 <div class="article-utility"> 330 <span> 331 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/meyer-armand-temporal/" title="7:23 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">February 3, 2026</span></a> </span> 332 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 333 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/angela-meyer/" rel="tag">Angela Meyer</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/louis-armand/" rel="tag">Louis Armand</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/sarah-temporal/" rel="tag">Sarah Temporal</a> </span> --> 334 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 335 </div> 336 <div id="post-45512" class="post-45512 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-ashley-haywood tag-brett-cross tag-nicole-rain-sellers"> 337 <div class="article-featured-image"> 338 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/sellers-haywood-cross/"><img width="582" height="825" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/polyp-ashleyhaywood.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'Polyp' by Ashley Haywood." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/polyp-ashleyhaywood.png 582w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/polyp-ashleyhaywood-212x300.png 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px" data-attachment-id="45515" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/polyp-ashleyhaywood/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/polyp-ashleyhaywood.png" data-orig-size="582,825" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="polyp-ashleyhaywood" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/polyp-ashleyhaywood-212x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/polyp-ashleyhaywood.png" /></a> 339 </div> 340 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/sellers-haywood-cross/" title="Permalink to Nicole Rain Sellers Reviews Ashley Haywood and Brett Cross" rel="bookmark">Nicole Rain Sellers Reviews Ashley Haywood and Brett Cross</a></h3> 341 <div class="article-meta"> 342 <span class="author">By 343 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/nicolerainsellers/">Nicole Rain Sellers</a> </span> 344 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 345 <div class="entry-summary"> 346 <p>Clustering is a technique for mind-mapping the parts of any whole. Organisms cluster into ecologies, people cluster into communities, and poems cluster into collections. In <em>Polyp</em> and <em>Islands</em>
346, clusters of cells, beings, and places form and dissolve. Both books explore the flux between separateness and wholeness in nature, each word and line branching into vaster topographies. The poems arrange in organic patterns, then undermine their own classification by splitting, mixing, and rejoining themselves in new arrangements. </p> 347 </div> 348 <div class="article-utility"> 349 <span> 350 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/sellers-haywood-cross/" title="11:21 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">October 10, 2025</span></a> </span> 351 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 352 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/ashley-haywood/" rel="tag">Ashley Haywood</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/brett-cross/" rel="tag">Brett Cross</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/nicole-rain-sellers/" rel="tag">Nicole Rain Sellers</a> </span> --> 353 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 354 </div> 355 <div id="post-45503" class="post-45503 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-jenny-hedley tag-peter-rose tag-sholto-buck"> 356 <div class="article-featured-image"> 357 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/hedley-rose-buck/"><img width="640" height="990" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AttentionPlease-peterrose.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AttentionPlease-peterrose.jpg 756w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AttentionPlease-peterrose-194x300.jpg 194w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AttentionPlease-peterrose-662x1024.jpg 662w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="45507" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/attentionplease-peterrose/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AttentionPlease-peterrose.jpg" data-orig-size="756,1169" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="AttentionPlease-peterrose" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AttentionPlease-peterrose-194x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AttentionPlease-peterrose-662x1024.jpg" /></a> 358 </div> 359 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/hedley-rose-buck/" title="Permalink to Jenny Hedley Reviews Peter Rose and Sholto Buck" rel="bookmark">Jenny Hedley Reviews Peter Rose and Sholto Buck</a></h3> 360 <div class="article-meta"> 361 <span class="author">By 362 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/jennyhedley/">Jenny Hedley</a> </span> 363 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 364 <div class="entry-summary"> 365 <p>A tiny bag of crystal shard, almost empty, is tucked into Peter Roseâs <em>Rattus Rattus</em> (2005), presumably by its previous St Kilda Libraryâassociated borrower. I am tempted to sample the remnants in order to conjure a different version of (my) critical self â the excuse being that I proposed reviewing Roseâs latest poetry volume <em>Attention, Please!</em> alongside Sholto Buckâs debut <em>In the Printed Version of Heaven</em> 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.</p> 366 </div> 367 <div class="article-utility"> 368 <span> 369 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/hedley-rose-buck/" title="3:25 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">September 11, 2025</span></a> </span> 370 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 371 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/jenny-hedley/" rel="tag">Jenny Hedley</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/peter-rose/" rel="tag">Peter Rose</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/sholto-buck/" rel="tag">Sholto Buck</a> </span> --> 372 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 373 </div> 374 <div id="post-45129" class="post-45129 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-kameron-lai tag-sime-knezevic tag-suneeta-peres-da-costa"> 375 <div class="article-featured-image">
376 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/lai-peres-da-costa-knezevic/"><img width="640" height="906" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa-768x1087.jpeg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of Suneeta Peres da Costa's The Prodigal." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa-768x1087.jpeg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa-212x300.jpeg 212w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa-724x1024.jpeg 724w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa.jpeg 848w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="45128" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa.jpeg" data-orig-size="848,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa-212x300.jpeg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-prodigal-suneeta-peres-da-costa-724x1024.jpeg" /></a> 377 </div> 378 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/lai-peres-da-costa-knezevic/" title="Permalink to Kameron Lai Reviews Suneeta Peres da Costa and Å ime KneževiÄ" rel="bookmark">Kameron Lai Reviews Suneeta Peres da Costa and Å ime KneževiÄ</a></h3> 379 <div class="article-meta"> 380 <span class="author">By 381 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/kameronlai/">Kameron Lai</a> </span> 382 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 383 <div class="entry-summary"> 384 <p>While I am hesitant to pathologise the diasporic experience (it is indeed a site of joy!), the effects of displacement often feel proximate to malady. I am always cautious to frame diaspora in such ways â it would not be genuine of me to pretend as if it were always a joyful experience, or something that I have never felt ashamed about. And there is guilt in that shame. Suneeta Peres da Costaâs <em>The Prodigal</em> (2024) and Å ime KneževiÄâs <em>In Your Dreams</em> (2025) stoke the fever in my heart that aches and involuntarily turns to ugly feelings, pleated over and over as I make sense of my place in relation to contemporary Australia and my ancestral homelands.</p> 385 </div> 386 <div class="article-utility"> 387 <span> 388 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/lai-peres-da-costa-knezevic/" title="1:07 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">June 16, 2025</span></a> </span> 389 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 390 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/kameron-lai/" rel="tag">Kameron Lai</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/sime-knezevic/" rel="tag">Å ime KneževiÄ</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/suneeta-peres-da-costa/" rel="tag">Suneeta Peres da Costa</a> </span> --> 391 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 392 </div> 393 <div id="post-44875" class="post-44875 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-bonny-cassidy tag-jeanine-leane tag-judith-bishop"> 394 <div class="article-featured-image"> 395 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/cassidy-bishop-leane/"><img width="326" height="500" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/circadia-judithbishop.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/circadia-judithbishop.jpg 326w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/circadia-judithbishop-196x300.jpg 196w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 326px) 100v
395w, 326px" data-attachment-id="44878" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/circadia-judithbishop/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/circadia-judithbishop.jpg" data-orig-size="326,500" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="circadia-judithbishop" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/circadia-judithbishop-196x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/circadia-judithbishop.jpg" /></a> 396 </div> 397 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/cassidy-bishop-leane/" title="Permalink to Bonny Cassidy Reviews Judith Bishop and Jeanine Leane" rel="bookmark">Bonny Cassidy Reviews Judith Bishop and Jeanine Leane</a></h3> 398 <div class="article-meta"> 399 <span class="author">By 400 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/bonny/">Bonny Cassidy</a> </span> 401 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 402 <div class="entry-summary"> 403 <p>The circadian rhythm is homo sapiensâ response to Earthâs orbit of the Sun. A top-down process instigated by neurotransmitters, it trips the nervous system, hormones, circulation, and muscles to rise with sunlight and sleep with darkness. The sleep part of the rhythm is not truly unconsciousness, rather, itâs a descent and ascent through gradations of brain wave frequencies.</p> 404 </div> 405 <div class="article-utility"> 406 <span> 407 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/cassidy-bishop-leane/" title="12:43 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">April 24, 2025</span></a> </span> 408 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 409 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/bonny-cassidy/" rel="tag">Bonny Cassidy</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/jeanine-leane/" rel="tag">Jeanine Leane</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/judith-bishop/" rel="tag">Judith Bishop</a> </span> --> 410 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 411 </div> 412 <div id="post-44867" class="post-44867 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-diane-fahey tag-esther-ottaway tag-jennifer-compton"> 413 <div class="article-featured-image"> 414 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/compton-ottaway-fahey/"><img width="427" height="607" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SheDoesntSeemAutistic-estherottaway-1.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'she doesn't seem autistic' by Esther Ottaway." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SheDoesntSeemAutistic-estherottaway-1.png 427w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SheDoesntSeemAutistic-estherottaway-1-211x300.png 211w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px" data-attachment-id="44871" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/shedoesntseemautistic-estherottaway-2/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SheDoesntSeemAutistic-estherottaway-1.png" data-orig-size="427,607" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="SheDoesntSeemAutistic-estherottaway" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SheDoesntSeemAutistic-estherottaway-1-211x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SheDoesntSeemAutistic-estherottaway-1.png" /></a> 415 </div> 416 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/compton-ottaway-fahey/" title="Permalink to Jennifer Compton Reviews Esther Ottaway and Diane Fahey" rel="bookmark">Jennifer Compton Reviews Esther Ottaway and Diane Fahey</a></h3> 417 <div class="article-meta"> 418 <span class="author">By 419 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/jennifercompton/">Jennifer Compton</a> </span> 420 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 421 <div class="entry-summary"> 422 <p>Puncher & Wattmann, whose present proprietors are David Musgrave and Ed Wright, has, since 2005, brought forth over 200 titles, many of them of the poetry ilk. On the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250218121345/https:/puncherandwattmann.com/about-puncher-wattmann/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ABOUT page</a> of their website, the press proudly avers that they are a publisher of âshit-hot writing.â As far as I can recall, this has been their guiding principle since inception. I am kind of tickled by this appropriation of the vernacular. Because shit <em>is</em> hot.</p> 423 </div> 424 <div class="article-utility"> 425 <span> 426 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/compton-ottaway-fahey/" title="10:28 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 12, 2025</span></a> </span> 427 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 428 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/diane-fahey/" rel="tag">Diane Fahey</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/esther-ottaway/" rel="tag">Esther Ottaway</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/jennifer-compton/" rel="tag">Jennifer Compton</a> </span> --> 429 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 430 </div> 431 <div id="post-44561" class="post-44561 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-cher-tan tag-dan-thu-nguyen tag-don-mee-choi tag-hasib-hourani tag-manis
431ha-anjali"> 432 <div class="article-featured-image"> 433 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/tan-hourani-anjali/"><img width="640" height="907" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rock-flight-768x1088.jpeg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rock-flight-768x1088.jpeg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rock-flight-212x300.jpeg 212w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rock-flight-723x1024.jpeg 723w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rock-flight.jpeg 847w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="44563" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/rock-flight/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rock-flight.jpeg" data-orig-size="847,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1713992253","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="rock-flight" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rock-flight-212x300.jpeg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rock-flight-723x1024.jpeg" /></a> 434 </div> 435 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/tan-hourani-anjali/" title="Permalink to Cher Tan Reviews Hasib Hourani and Manisha Anjali" rel="bookmark">Cher Tan Reviews Hasib Hourani and Manisha Anjali</a></h3> 436 <div class="article-meta"> 437 <span class="author">By 438 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/chertan/">Cher Tan</a> </span> 439 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 440 <div class="entry-summary"> 441 <p>Naag Mountain by Manisha Anjali Giramondo, 2024 rock flight by Hasib Hourani Giramondo, 2024 Alas! There is no one in hell ⦠all the devils are here! â Aimé Césaire, A Tempest (trans. Richard Miller) Who are you without colonialism? …</p> 442 </div> 443 <div class="article-utility"> 444 <span> 445 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/tan-hourani-anjali/" title="8:51 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">December 17, 2024</span></a> </span> 446 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 447 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/cher-tan/" rel="tag">Cher Tan</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/dan-thu-nguyen/" rel="tag">Dan Thu Nguyen</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/don-mee-choi/" rel="tag">Don Mee Choi</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/hasib-hourani/" rel="tag">Hasib Hourani</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/manisha-anjali/" rel="tag">Manisha Anjali</a> </span> --> 448 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 449 </div> 450 <div id="post-44492" class="post-44492 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-ann-vickery tag-kate-fagan tag-tais-rose-wae"> 451 <div class="article-featured-image"> 452 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/vickery-fagan-wae/"><img width="521" height="735" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/songinthegrass-katefagan.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'Song in the Grass' by Kate Fagan." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/songinthegrass-katefagan.png 521w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/songinthegrass-katefagan-213x300.png 213w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px" data-attachment-id="44494" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/songinthegrass-katefagan/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/songinthegrass-katefagan.png" data-orig-size="521,735" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="songinthegrass-katefagan" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/songinthegrass-katefagan-213x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/songinthegrass-katefagan.png" /></a> 453 </div> 454 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/vickery-fagan-wae/" title="Permalink to Situated Song, Motherhood and Creativity: Ann Vickery Reviews Kate Fagan and Tais Rose Wae" rel="bookmark">Situated Song, Motherhood and Creativity: Ann Vickery Reviews Kate Fagan and Tais Rose Wae</a></h3> 455 <div class="article-meta"> 456 <span class="author">By 457 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/annvickery/">Ann Vickery</a> </span> 458 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 459 <div class="entry-summary"> 460 <p>Song in the Grass by Kate Fagan Giramondo, 2024 Riverbed Sky Songs by Tais Rose Wae Vagabond Press, 2023 Both Kate Faganâs Song in the Grass (Giramondo, 2024) and Tais Rose Waeâs Riverbed Sky Songs (Vagabond Press, 2023) take motherhood …</p> 461 </div> 462 <div class="article-utility"> 463 <span> 464 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/vickery-fagan-wae/" title="11:24 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">December 5, 2024</span></a> </span> 465 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 466 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/ann-vickery/" rel="tag">ann vickery</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/kate-fagan/" rel="tag">Kate Fagan</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/tais-rose-wae/" rel="tag">Tais Rose Wae</a> </span> --> 467 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 468 </div> 469 <div id="post-44473" class="post-44473 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-gareth-sion-jenkins tag-samuel-j-cox tag-toby-fitch"> 470 <div class="article-featured-image">
471 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/cox-fitch-jenkins/"><img width="640" height="668" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/objectpermanence-tobyfitch.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'Object Permanence' by Toby Fitch." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/objectpermanence-tobyfitch.png 708w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/objectpermanence-tobyfitch-287x300.png 287w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/objectpermanence-tobyfitch-32x32.png 32w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="44476" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/objectpermanence-tobyfitch/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/objectpermanence-tobyfitch.png" data-orig-size="708,739" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="objectpermanence-tobyfitch" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/objectpermanence-tobyfitch-287x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/objectpermanence-tobyfitch.png" /></a> 472 </div> 473 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/cox-fitch-jenkins/" title="Permalink to Samuel J. Cox Reviews Toby Fitch and Gareth Sion Jenkins" rel="bookmark">Samuel J. Cox Reviews Toby Fitch and Gareth Sion Jenkins</a></h3> 474 <div class="article-meta"> 475 <span class="author">By 476 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/samueljcox/">Samuel J. Cox</a> </span> 477 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 478 <div class="entry-summary"> 479 <p>Toby Fitchâs <em>Object Permanence: Calligrammes</em> (Puncher & Wattmann, 2023) and Gareth Sion Jenkinsâ <em>The Inclination Compass</em> (Puncher & Wattmann, 2023) both represent not only the culmination of large bodies of work, but also can be considered <em>avant-garde</em> in their experimentation with the boundaries of poetry as a visual medium.</p> 480 </div> 481 <div class="article-utility"> 482 <span> 483 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/cox-fitch-jenkins/" title="8:22 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 20, 2024</span></a> </span> 484 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 485 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/gareth-sion-jenkins/" rel="tag">Gareth Sion Jenkins</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/samuel-j-cox/" rel="tag">Samuel J. Cox</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/toby-fitch/" rel="tag">Toby Fitch</a> </span> --> 486 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 487 </div> 488 <div id="post-44463" class="post-44463 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-ash-davida-jane tag-kiara-lindsay tag-robyn-maree-pickens"> 489 <div class="article-featured-image"> 490 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/jane-lindsay-pickens/"><img width="558" height="785" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/aportraitofmerunningasfastastheplantisgrowing-kiaralindsay.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'a portrait of me running as fast as the plant is growing' by Kiara Lindsay." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/aportraitofmerunningasfastastheplantisgrowing-kiaralindsay.png 558w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/aportraitofmerunningasfastastheplantisgrowing-kiaralindsay-213x300.png 213w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px" data-attachment-id="44464" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/aportraitofmerunningasfastastheplantisgrowing-kiaralindsay/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/aportraitofmerunningasfastastheplantisgrowing-kiaralindsay.png" data-orig-size="558,785" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="aportraitofmerunningasfastastheplantisgrowing-kiaralindsay" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/aportraitofmerunningasfastastheplantisgrowing-kiaralindsay-213x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/aportraitofmerunningasfastastheplantisgrowing-kiaralindsay.png" /></a> 491 </div> 492 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/jane-lindsay-pickens/" title="Permalink to Ash Davida Jane Reviews Kiara Lindsay and Robyn Maree Pickens" rel="bookmark">Ash Davida Jane Reviews Kiara Lindsay and Robyn Maree Pickens</a></h3> 493 <div class="article-meta"> 494 <span class="author">By 495 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/ashdavidajane/">Ash Davida Jane</a> </span> 496 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 497 <div class="entry-summary"> 498 <p>Robyn Maree Pickensâ debut collection <em>Tung</em> (Otago University Press, 2023) joins a growing school of contemporary ecopoetics within Aotearoa New Zealand. Recently awarded third place for the international <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241008124628/https:/laurelprize.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Laurel Prize</a> for âthe best collection of nature or environmental poetry,â <em>Tung</em> is deeply concerned with the non-human world and new, or perhaps very old, ways of being.</p> 499 </div> 500 <div class="article-utility"> 501 <span> 502 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/jane-lindsay-pickens/" title="9:02 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 6, 2024</span></a> </span> 503 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 504 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/ash-davida-jane/" rel="tag">Ash Davida Jane</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/kiara-lindsay/" rel="tag">Kiara Lindsay</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/robyn-maree-pickens/" rel="tag">Robyn Maree Pickens</a> </span> --> 505 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 506 </div> 507 <div id="post-44445" class="post-44445 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-caitlin-farrugia tag-madison-godfrey tag-tim-loveday"> 508 <div class="article-featured-image">
509 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/loveday-godfrey-farrugia/"><img width="640" height="862" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey-768x1034.jpg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'Dress Rehearsals' by Madison Godfrey." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey-768x1034.jpg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey-223x300.jpg 223w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey-761x1024.jpg 761w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey.jpg 1209w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="44447" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey.jpg" data-orig-size="1209,1627" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey-223x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dressrehearsals-madisongodfrey-761x1024.jpg" /></a> 510 </div> 511 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/loveday-godfrey-farrugia/" title="Permalink to Tim Loveday Reviews Madison Godfrey and Caitlin Farrugia" rel="bookmark">Tim Loveday Reviews Madison Godfrey and Caitlin Farrugia</a></h3> 512 <div class="article-meta"> 513 <span class="author">By 514 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/timloveday/">Tim Loveday</a> </span> 515 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 516 <div class="entry-summary"> 517 <p>Madison Godfreyâs 2023 collection of poetry is, as the cover and title imply, like staring into a mirror to find only the arm that holds it up â <em>a dress rehearsal</em> for a made-self that is trying to find its way towards an exciting and liberated life in a cis-gendered, heteronormative world.</p> 518 </div> 519 <div class="article-utility"> 520 <span> 521 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/loveday-godfrey-farrugia/" title="12:06 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">October 15, 2024</span></a> </span> 522 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 523 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/caitlin-farrugia/" rel="tag">Caitlin Farrugia</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/madison-godfrey/" rel="tag">Madison Godfrey</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/tim-loveday/" rel="tag">Tim Loveday</a> </span> --> 524 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 525 </div> 526 <div id="post-44436" class="post-44436 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-caroline-williamson tag-d-perez-mcvie tag-luke-beesley"> 527 <div class="article-featured-image"> 528 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/perez-mcvie-beesley-williamson/"><img width="640" height="908" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inthephotograph-lukebeesley-768x1090.jpeg" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'In the Photograph' by Luke Beesley." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inthephotograph-lukebeesley-768x1090.jpeg 768w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inthephotograph-lukebeesley-211x300.jpeg 211w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inthephotograph-lukebeesley-722x1024.jpeg 722w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inthephotograph-lukebeesley.jpeg 1748w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100v
528w, 640px" data-attachment-id="44439" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/inthephotograph-lukebeesley/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inthephotograph-lukebeesley.jpeg" data-orig-size="1748,2480" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="inthephotograph-lukebeesley" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inthephotograph-lukebeesley-211x300.jpeg" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inthephotograph-lukebeesley-722x1024.jpeg" /></a> 529 </div> 530 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/perez-mcvie-beesley-williamson/" title="Permalink to D. Perez-McVie Reviews Luke Beesley and Caroline Williamson" rel="bookmark">D. Perez-McVie Reviews Luke Beesley and Caroline Williamson</a></h3> 531 <div class="article-meta"> 532 <span class="author">By 533 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/dperezmcvie/">D. Perez-McVie</a> </span> 534 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 535 <div class="entry-summary"> 536 <p>We were all children once, but some of us more than others. <em>In the Photograph</em> (Giramondo Publishing, 2023) is Luke Beesleyâs sixth book of poetry. <em>Time Machines</em> (Vagabond Press, 2023) is Caroline Williamsonâs first collection. Children are central to both books. The speaker has a son in lots of Beesleyâs poems, and Williamsonâs has at least one kid present, too. The poets themselves were children once.</p> 537 </div> 538 <div class="article-utility"> 539 <span> 540 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/perez-mcvie-beesley-williamson/" title="2:05 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">September 30, 2024</span></a> </span> 541 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 542 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/caroline-williamson/" rel="tag">Caroline Williamson</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/d-perez-mcvie/" rel="tag">D. Perez-McVie</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/luke-beesley/" rel="tag">luke beesley</a> </span> --> 543 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 544 </div> 545 <div id="post-44397" class="post-44397 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-izzy-roberts-orr tag-jennifer-compton tag-peter-boyle"> 546 <div class="article-featured-image"> 547 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/compton-boyle-roberts-orr/"><img width="577" height="822" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/companionsancestorsinscriptions-peterboyle.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions' by Peter Boyle." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/companionsancestorsinscriptions-peterboyle.png 577w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/companionsancestorsinscriptions-peterboyle-211x300.png 211w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px" data-attachment-id="44400" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/compton-boyle-roberts-orr/attachment/companionsancestorsinscriptions-peterboyle/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/companionsancestorsinscriptions-peterboyle.png" data-orig-size="577,822" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="companionsancestorsinscriptions-peterboyle" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/companionsancestorsinscriptions-peterboyle-211x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/companionsancestorsinscriptions-peterboyle.png" /></a> 548 </div> 549 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/compton-boyle-roberts-orr/" title="Permalink to Jennifer Compton Reviews Peter Boyle and Izzy Roberts-Orr" rel="bookmark">Jennifer Compton Reviews Peter Boyle and Izzy Roberts-Orr</a></h3> 550 <div class="article-meta"> 551 <span class="author">By 552 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/jennifercompton/">Jennifer Compton</a> </span> 553 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 554 <div class="entry-summary"> 555 <p>First, I salute Vagabond Press â its progenitors, its long-time toilers in the vineyard of poetry, its patrons, its cheer squad, and those who work in the shadows. Any small press, surely, is a hub of more-or-less willing volunteers. It is very expensive, in all sorts of ways, to make a book. Count the cost. But year after year after year, since 1999, Vagabond Press has been turning aside from the multifarious, ever-present griefs of the world, and privileging poetry.</p> 556 </div> 557 <div class="article-utility"> 558 <span> 559 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/compton-boyle-roberts-orr/" title="1:16 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">September 12, 2024</span></a> </span> 560 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 561 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/izzy-roberts-orr/" rel="tag">Izzy Roberts-Orr</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/jennifer-compton/" rel="tag">Jennifer Compton</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/peter-boyle/" rel="tag">Peter Boyle</a> </span> --> 562 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 563 </div> 564 <div id="post-44371" class="post-44371 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-autumn-royal tag-barbara-temperton tag-panda-wong"> 565 <div class="article-featured-image">
566 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/wong-royal-temperton/"><img width="505" height="712" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/thedramastudent-autumnroyal.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'The Drama Student' by Autumn Royal." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/thedramastudent-autumnroyal.png 505w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/thedramastudent-autumnroyal-213x300.png 213w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px" data-attachment-id="44373" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/wong-royal-temperton/attachment/thedramastudent-autumnroyal/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/thedramastudent-autumnroyal.png" data-orig-size="505,712" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="thedramastudent-autumnroyal" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/thedramastudent-autumnroyal-213x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/thedramastudent-autumnroyal.png" /></a> 567 </div> 568 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/wong-royal-temperton/" title="Permalink to Panda Wong Reviews Autumn Royal and Barbara Temperton" rel="bookmark">Panda Wong Reviews Autumn Royal and Barbara Temperton</a></h3> 569 <div class="article-meta"> 570 <span class="author">By 571 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/pandawong/">Panda Wong</a> </span> 572 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 573 <div class="entry-summary"> 574 <p>Like reverse-engineering a sausage, articulating grief is an impossible task. Autumn Royalâs debut poetry collection <em>The Drama Student</em> (2023) resists this urge for clarity. Instead, she writes towards griefâs inability to be expressed or written, how language scrapes against griefâs edges, a continuation of her practiceâs focus on elegy and mourning traditions.</p> 575 </div> 576 <div class="article-utility"> 577 <span> 578 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/wong-royal-temperton/" title="10:58 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">August 27, 2024</span></a> </span> 579 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 580 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/autumn-royal/" rel="tag">Autumn Royal</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/barbara-temperton/" rel="tag">Barbara Temperton</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/panda-wong/" rel="tag">Panda Wong</a> </span> --> 581 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 582 </div> 583 <div id="post-44081" class="post-44081 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-mitchell-welch tag-sam-ryan tag-william-fox"> 584 <div class="article-featured-image"> 585 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/ryan-welch-fox/"><img width="452" height="645" src="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/vehicularman-welch.png" class="attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image" alt="The front cover of 'Vehicular Man' by Mitchell Welch." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/vehicularman-welch.png 452w, https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/vehicularman-welch-210x300.png 210w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px" data-attachment-id="44084" data-permalink="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/ryan-welch-fox/attachment/vehicularman-welch/" data-orig-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/vehicularman-welch.png" data-orig-size="452,645" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="vehicularman-welch" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/vehicularman-welch-210x300.png" data-large-file="https://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/vehicularman-welch.png" /></a> 586 </div> 587 <h3 class="article-title"><a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/ryan-welch-fox/" title="Permalink to Sam Ryan Reviews Mitchell Welch and William Fox" rel="bookmark">Sam Ryan Reviews Mitchell Welch and William Fox</a></h3> 588 <div class="article-meta"> 589 <span class="author">By 590 <a href="https://cordite.org.au/author/samryan/">Sam Ryan</a> </span> 591 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 592 <div class="entry-summary"> 593 <p>Definitions of fiction and non-fiction are slippery. Each contains elements of the other; fiction can be based in non-fiction and non-fiction can include elements of fiction. Reportage, a non-fiction genre which is, by definition, based in truth still contains moments of fiction â not everything you see on the news is true. </p> 594 </div> 595 <div class="article-utility"> 596 <span> 597 Published <a href="https://cordite.org.au/reviews/ryan-welch-fox/" title="9:19 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">July 16, 2024</span></a> </span> 598 <!-- <span class="tag-links"> 599 <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/mitchell-welch/" rel="tag">Mitchell Welch</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/sam-ryan/" rel="tag">Sam Ryan</a>, <a href="https://cordite.org.au/tags/william-fox/" rel="tag">William Fox</a> </span> --> 600 </div><!-- .entry-utility --> 601 </div> 602 <div id="post-44077" class="post-44077 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-claire-miranda-roberts tag-dior-sutherland tag-stephanie-powell"> 603 <div class="article-featured-image">
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