The Permanent Resident Archives

The State of Australian Reality: Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories

Verity La September 19, 2017 Through the Looking Glass: Reviews

Review by David Thomas Henry Wright Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories are both short(er) story collections. Both were published in …

UNTWISTING YOUR OWN TONGUE: an interview with Roanna Gonsalves

Verity La March 14, 2017 Lighthouse Yarns

Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP, 2016) a collection of short fiction exploring how the newly arrived find their place in a new land. Her series …

Wit and Challenge and Play: Suniti Namjoshi's The Fabulous FeministJune 11, 2013
Review by Robyn Cadwallader A blue donkey, a lesbian cow, a saint who meets Grendel and his mother, a one-eyed monkey, an oyster child — they all tell their arresting ... Read More
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 11: Kerry Reed-GilbertJuly 3, 2018
In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast Michele Seminara and Phillip Hall chat with poet, activist and Aboriginal Elder Kerry Reed-Gilbert about her work and the place of Indigenous ... Read More
Black Pomegranate (Saba Vasefi)February 24, 2016
In my father’s garden you pick a black pomegranate and when I open my pocket for you to place the fruit there, you look at me with a fervent stare. You ... Read More