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The Sydney Poetry Morning Herald for Saturday July 2, 2011

Cordite's first homepage.

Cordite first went online in 2000 and the homepage was fairly plain. See how Cordite evolved in David Prater's archeologoical dig through the homepages since then.
Ali Alizadeh asks in his Meanland post "is our ‘reactionary attitude’ toward print writing being replaced by a ‘progressive reaction’ toward digital texts?"
Michael Brennan has just published a few dozen 10-question interviews with Australian poets on Poetry International Web: Peter Minter, Vivian Smith, David Brooks, Martin Harrison, Kate Lilley, Judith Beveridge, Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Ali Alizadeh, Kevin Hart, Andy Quan, Michael Farrell, Peter Boyle, John Kinsella, Luke Davies, Jill Jones, David Malouf, Ouyang Yu, Chris Edwards, Claire Potter, Adam Aitken, Pam Brown, Gig Ryan, John Tranter, Laurie Duggan, Alan Wearne, Philip Hammial, Peter Skrzynecki and Katherine Gallagher. Brennan's been very busy.
Verity La interviews Omar Musa "Every city has a folk hero or two, and Omar Musa is one of the ACT’s folk heroes".
Sam Cooney on the gap between ability and ambition
Adam Ford on rejection and acceptance.
Andrew Burke on new translations of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.

SPUNC has a Winter Poetry Feature to warm your cockles.
In Fremantle it's Poetry Month
Every Pro-Tour rider aspires to riding in the Tour de France (which starts this weekend and will be of passing interest to some of you). Well it's no different with poets and Australian Poetry is seeking applications for the 2012 Tour of Island. Every Pro-Tour poet should apply.
Australian Poetry now has a geek in residence, Benjamin Laird, who will be tweaking their cogs.
The Australia Council has launched a site called ConnectArts chock full of handy advice on using the intertubes, the twitters, the facebooks, the youtubes to promote your arts thing.
vidaweb.org does a count: "In the Best American Poetry Series, the percentage of women published in the anthologies was 39%."
Wonder what the score is for the various Best Australian series (and the irony is not lost on me that in this week's post the links are men 90%, women 10%)