62: MELBOURNE | Cordite Poetry Review

Poetry Editorial: Michael Farrell

Memoir: Crawling Across Tram Tracks: Extracts from Volumes 5 & 6 of Fay Zwicky’s Journal by Lucy Dougan, Radio Laneways and the Melbourne Sound by Alicia Sometimes

Artworks and Photo Salon: Plain by Tim Grey and Some Art and Text: David Egan, Thea Jones, Nicola Bryant, Lauren Burrow, Nicholas Smith and Saskia Doherty by Spiros Panigirakis

Interview: Corey Wakeling Interviews Javant Biarujia

And a sequence of 55 new poems selected by Michael Farrell:

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Melbourne Poem
by Cassie Lewis

After the Election – On Rye Pier
by Ross Donlon

The Day after the Election in a Melbourne Backyard
by Anne Elvey

I Spy
by Cameron Lowe

Lunch Poem, University Square
by Stu Hatton

Snottische.
by Duncan Hose

Grey, Green, Silver (elemental machine)
by Isi Unikowski

Orientation
by Antonia Pont

Simon Stone Circa Whenever
by Sam Twyford-Moore

Fed Square Spots Romantic Three Storeys Up
by Julie Maclean

Plus Ça Change … 1981–2011
by Javant Biarujia

The Weather Broadcast
by Lily Chan

The German Consulate in Melbourne
by Javant Biarujia

Carrionblush Hotel
by Bronwyn Frances

Melbs
by Siân Vate

In Line
by Helga Jermy

Williamstown
by Laurie Duggan

Worry rung (Wurrung)
by Lisa Samuels

Streets
by Will Druce

An Enough [letter to those Melbourne poets]
by Marc Jones

Changing the Names of the Past in the Years of Curious Habits
by Michelle Leber

KPTEA
by Jennifer Mackenzie

Glazed Glitter.
by Kay Are

The Apocalypse for Non-Believers
by Rafael S W

The Satisfaction of Speech
by Fiona Hile

Field Recording 1 – Clarendon Hotel, South Melbourne
by Paul Mitchell

me n me trumpet set the controls
by Justin Clemens

Bar-Jar-Oh
by Pete McCracken

Unwelcome Lycra/Portrait of a Patron with a Straw, Loafer
by Luke Beesley

Us vs City (a tragedy in three parts)
by Jessica Cupit

Mixed Business
by Alan Wearne

Brunswick Street Nocturne
by Louis Armand

Six Shifts at the VISY Recycling Plant, Heidelberg
by Brett Dionysius

Great Notion Road
by Andrew Leggett

holographic diary only sparkles in the sun but this is melbourne
by Holly Childs

Light on red brick
by Bonny Cassidy

What is the name of Justin Clemens’ cat?
by Kevin Lo

Victoria Parade
by Mark A Peart

Melbourne’s 255 Union Jack
by Barrie Walsh

we’re lola
by John Hand

Double-blind
by Helen Thurloe

flavour of
by Leah Muddle

The Victoria Markets
by Peter Rose

Melbourne Sonnets
by Claire Nashar

Daylight Savings
by Charlotte Marie Chadwick

Traffic (Next Door’s Constant Flow of Visitors)
by Laura Fern

January
by Marty Hiatt

WATSONIA CC 1st XI 2063/64 premiership team
by Nick Whittock

Two Poems from Melbourne Central Station
by Stephanie Campisi

To a Dead Poet
by Robbie Coburn

Car Pool
by Matthew Jenkins

Punk Wave (Baker Street, Richmond)
by Dan Bledwich

Walking through Camberwell while the Bushfires
by Simon Eales

Trade
by Mark O'Flynn

Street View – Batman’s Hill, March 2014
by Alex McDermott

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 46.1: MELBOURNE
Released: 1 June 2014