A new edition of Cordite Poetry has hit the…? Well it’s published here.
An ode (to emily)
Coming in from planting,
Mattock ringing through the valley,
Eyes bright, I only felt
you there Continue reading
(kind)
hu
man (kind) ?
wo
man (kind) ?
Sweet or un (kind)
(not really the marrying (kind) ) Continue reading
Poets speaking up to Adani – John Kinsella
And John Kinsella in Dantesque form – Poets speaking up to Adani – John Kinsella
Poets speaking up to Adani – Michael Farrell
And this one by Michael Farrell is a bewdy, (even if you don’t care about coal mines and corals) Poets speaking up to Adani – Michael Farrell
Poets speaking up to Adani – Linda Stevenson
It’s on right now. The folk at Plumwood Mountain journal are hosting 12 hours of poets sharing their work as text, audio or video to speak up to Adani. Here’s Frankston poet Linda Stevenson… Poets speaking up to Adani – Linda Stevenson
Leonora and the serpent
How many names for a woman? Girl, sweetie, whore
wife-before-she-knows-it, mother, crone, missus.
But I called you by your name — Leonora. Continue reading
Found poetry
Safe
Forget the sass of the satirist – spell it out: plain please.
And if some are sulkier for their likenesses and aliases
on-screen for any super-user’s pet pretense
let them fester I say; Continue reading
Spotlight: Poets Speaking up to Adani
On Monday 30 October 2017, the folk at Plumwood Mountain journal will be hosting 12 hours of poets sharing their work as text, audio or video to speak up to Adani. Dial in and check out the verse – Spotlight: Poets Speaking up to Adani
Peter Frankis writes 