Cordite Publishing Inc.

09/06/2026

In case you missed it, Cordite's winter sale is on now!

Use discount code WINTER for 50% off all books, including new releases (limit one per title). Offer good until 11.59pm on 25 June 2026.

Take a punt on something new: https://corditebooks.org.au/

Or if you're set for books, chip in a few dollars to our EOFY fundraiser to help us make more: https://www.givenow.com.au/cordite

08/06/2026

Could you please spare a few dollars for Cordite this EOFY season?

Not only do your contributions enable us to continue publishing poetry, but they send a significant message to government and funding bodies: poetry matters, and people want to read it!

Donations over $2 are tax-deductible.

Donate here: https://www.givenow.com.au/cordite

PLUS: use discount code WINTER for 50% off all Cordite books (limit one per title), good until 25 June. Buy here: https://corditebooks.org.au/

Every little bit of support helps to keep us going. Whether you buy a book or donate some cash, you're making a difference. Thank you for helping us keep the poetry flowing (or oozing, your choice).

03/06/2026

"I turn to my brother and say, 'Do you remember how it used to be? In the eighties?'

And he says, 'Yeah, the chants have come a long way. What was that one again? PLO YES YES. REAGAN BEGUM NO NO.'"

– Sara Haddad, 'And then the world went loud: Reflections on protest and solidarity

This essay was originally delivered as a speech at the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide on 7 November 2025. It was written in response to the prompt ‘And then the world went loud’.

02/06/2026

"they're punting designer babies into the sea
in the hopes of stopping algae blooms
sort of a human sacrifice type moment
read in the soy entrails of a vegan katsu
other attempts to avert apocalypse:
skincare products / gay christmas
/ ritualistic pomegranate deseeding"

– Aries Gacutan, ‘hell on earth’

Aries M. Gacutan is a Filipino poet, editor, and digital writer living and working on stolen Wurundjeri land. They have a passing interest in the end of the world.

28/05/2026

"Recently, I have been thinking about how a website can be a lot like zine.

Oh yeah? How so?

Well. To me, a digital zine isn't a zine that's been scanned into a computer and then uploaded to a website. The zine IS the website."

– Tegan Webb, 'A website is a zine' (digital essay)

At a zine fair in Wagga Wagga I met a person called Zachary. He bought the zine I wrote about finding a 2007 MacBook in the e-waste bin at work, and we got to talking about it, and our feelings abo…

27/05/2026

BOOK REVIEW: 'KONTRA' by Eunice Andrada & 'The Cyprian' by Amy Crutchfield, reviewed by Jocasta Suzanne

"Allegory demands perfection of itself – 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."

Allegory demands perfection of itself – 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 fro…

26/05/2026

"The personal is always obviously political, but the personal for us as Indigenous people is also steeped in Country. We cannot exist without it, nor can our relationships with each other."

– Dr Latoya Aroha Rule, speaking to Dominic Guerrera

The personal is always obviously political, but the personal for us as Indigenous people is also steeped in Country. We cannot exist without it, nor can our relationships with each other.

21/05/2026

TMLYMI 8 POEM SPOTLIGHT:

🟢 Eartha Davis: 'kaha, tamawahine / tipuna wahine' 🟢

"& they say kindness is corrugated
& they say blue horses babble like consonants
& they say palm is the doorknob of heart
(dazed, half-gentle)

patches of lover & mountain
styrofoam moons
rainbow recollection
rioting
against
hours
seeking
silo
shared
strangeness —"

Read the full poem and the rest of the anthology: http://cordite.org.au/chapbooks-features/tell-me-like-you-mean-it-8/

Image: Tile featuring a snippet of the poem as written in plain text above.

20/05/2026

"Every stone here
holds a memory.
Every shadow
drags a tiny funeral behind it.
Depending on where you turn,
a step may be survival—
or it was,
a second ago"

– Mariam Al-Khatib, 'When I Meet Death', self-translated

Mariam Al-Khatib is a Palestinian writer, poet, and dental student currently based in Egypt. A survivor of genocide and displacement, she uses literature as a form of resistance and a vessel for me…

20/05/2026

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Rot' by Evelyn Araluen, reviewed by Jeanine Leane

"Through these words Araluen defies the material conditions from which she writes – a nation built on the erasure of bodies like hers and all she loves. She is resolute in her refusal to emulate or be dwarfed by those she despises, or to allow her colonisers, her enemies, to prevent her from connecting with those she loves and is loved by."

The Rot is the second collection by Bunjalung poet and scholar Evelyn Araluen. While similarities to Araluen’s earlier award-winning work Dropbear are apparent in style, language, and positionality…