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| Cordite Poetry Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Cordite Poetry Review |
| Discipline | Poetry |
| Language | English |
| Country | Australia |
| Frequency | Online (formerly print) |
| Firstdate | 1997 |
| Founders | Martin Langford |
| Website | Official website |
Cordite Poetry Review is an Australian online poetry journal founded in 1997. It publishes contemporary poetry, reviews, essays, and occasional special issues, engaging with poets, editors, and literary communities across Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and beyond. The magazine has interacted with institutions, festivals, and prizes while maintaining a distinct editorial identity within the network of literary magazines, university presses, and arts councils.
Established in 1997 by Martin Langford in Sydney, the magazine emerged during a period of digital transition alongside print journals such as Meanjin, Southerly, Overland, Griffith Review, and Quadrant. Early issues featured contributions from poets connected with universities including University of Sydney, Monash University, University of Melbourne, and regional centres such as University of Wollongong and University of Queensland. The journal developed through collaborations with festivals like the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Perth Writers Festival and engaged with cultural bodies including Australia Council for the Arts and state arts agencies in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Over time, editorial shifts reflected dialogues with international movements associated with entities such as Poetry Society (Great Britain), Poets & Writers, and small presses like Bloodaxe Books and Salt Publishing.
The journal has operated as a volunteer-run editorial collective, aligning with independent magazines such as Cordelia, Heat, Island Magazine, and Arc. Editorial policy has balanced invited features and open submissions, drawing on networks that include university creative writing programmes at University of Newcastle (Australia), University of Western Australia, and La Trobe University. Publication cycles have responded to funding models used by arts organisations such as the Australia Council for the Arts and philanthropic support structures similar to those of the Ian Potter Foundation and the Myer Foundation. Digital hosting and archiving strategies have paralleled infrastructures like Trove, AustLit, and institutional repositories at universities including Australian National University and University of Technology Sydney.
Contributors have ranged from established figures associated with the Poetry Book Society and international prize circuits like the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Pulitzer Prize to emerging writers nurtured by mentorship initiatives akin to those of Writers Victoria and Scribe Publications. Names connected to Australian poetry communities include poets linked to The Australian, reviewers writing for The Guardian (London), and academics publishing through Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. The journal has published work resonant with movements and poets connected to Les Murray, Judith Wright, Eileen Myles, John Ashbery, Mark Doty, Helen Morton, Gwen Harwood, Philip Salom, Graham Rowlands, Ruth Waller, Bernard O'Donoghue, Les Murray Prize contexts and participants from workshops influenced by figures tied to Iowa Writers' Workshop and University of Iowa. Special issues and themed lists have engaged with regional and transnational topics linked to cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, London, New York City, Dublin, and Edinburgh.
Critical reception has positioned the magazine within conversations alongside journals such as The White Review, The London Magazine, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, and leading university-affiliated reviews. Reviews and citations have appeared in academic forums at Monash University, University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, and in festival programming at Sydney Writers' Festival and Melbourne International Arts Festival. The magazine’s role in amplifying voices has had downstream effects on book publications with independent presses like Giramondo Publishing, University of Queensland Press, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Picador, and on poets’ selections for residencies at institutions such as Vermont Studio Center, Bedford Arts Residency, and galleries like National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
While the magazine itself has not been the subject of mainstream commercial awards typical of national media, its contributors and editors have been associated with prestigious honours including the Miles Franklin Award, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, John Bray Poetry Award, Queensland Literary Awards, Stella Prize longlistings, and international recognitions such as nominations for the PEN International awards and inclusion in anthologies connected to the Granta Best of Young Australian Novelists and similar curated lists. Individual contributors have gone on to win prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Prize, Man Booker Prize (for related authors), and fellowships administered by bodies like the Australia Council for the Arts and university research fellowships at institutions including University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Harvard University, and Columbia University.
Category:Australian literary magazines Category:Poetry magazines