Iconoclast
May 2025

Iconoclast
May 2025

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The Australian literary scene and beyond is under attack. Tune in to our podcast, where poets Magan Magan and Michele Seminara explore the hostile nature of woke ideology and its attack on freedom of expression in the arts.

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The Australian literary scene is being undermined and stifled. Tune in to our podcast, where poets Magan Magan and Michele Seminara explore the hostile nature of woke ideology and its attack on freedom of expression in the arts.

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  • The Monologue Adventure: Voices of Women 2019The Monologue Adventure: Voices of Women 2019
    Women have always had powerful stories to share. The everyday is their stage and they survive on a journey of emotional reconciliation within themselves, navigating both the society they live ... Read More
  • The Light Fantastic (Mark O’Flynn)The Light Fantastic (Mark O’Flynn)
    GRASSHOPPER, 1889 Stuck fast  the grasshopper in Van Gogh’s painting  Olive Grove has achieved some immortality,  at least so far as it goes for grasshoppers.  Like Pharaohs eviscerated, or thylacines ... Read More
  • A LIFE’S JOURNEY: Noel Tovey’s And then I found meA LIFE’S JOURNEY: Noel Tovey’s And then I found me
    Review by Brenda Saunders Edited by Robyn Cadwallader And then I found me is the story of a creative and talented artist fulfilling his dream. Noel Tovey traces the challenges, ... Read More
  • Removing Blood Stains <br>(Amy T Matthews)Removing Blood Stains <br>(Amy T Matthews)
    (edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) 1. Exsanguination. Ex – out of. Sanguis – blood. To bleed out. 2. It takes up to fifteen minutes to bleed out. 3. Felix Baumgartner fell ... Read More
  • VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 8: Tricia DearbornVERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 8: Tricia Dearborn
    TRICIA DEARBORN: In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Managing Editor Michele Seminara chats with Tricia Dearborn about the many poems of hers we’ve published over the past ... Read More
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  • Memory for Dust (James Laidler)Memory for Dust (James Laidler)
    Artist’s Statement ‘Memory for Dust’ is a poem that lay buried in one of my journals for a number of years. It recounts the death of our pet cat which ... Read More
  • stone beach on kos (Linda Godfrey)stone beach on kos (Linda Godfrey)
    echoes smack on a photograph/ show about twelve/ all standing round in their morning/ like our thoughts/ all children have to leave somewhere/ and yet fishponds reflect/ if not actual ... Read More
  • Parentheses (Shastra Deo)Parentheses (Shastra Deo)
    stitch our disunion into the gutshot —split my belly, suture. spare me your hand and bandage. kneel:   your thighs bracket my hips as you etymologise me. anatomy of my ... Read More
  • Removing Blood Stains <br>(Amy T Matthews)Removing Blood Stains <br>(Amy T Matthews)
    (edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) 1. Exsanguination. Ex – out of. Sanguis – blood. To bleed out. 2. It takes up to fifteen minutes to bleed out. 3. Felix Baumgartner fell ... Read More
  • Apologies, I forgot you exist (Fleur Beaupert)Apologies, I forgot you exist (Fleur Beaupert)
    On the verge of this sheer pink dress fits my childhood fantasy glass slipper | Inside it I’m so brown I’m clear White gold un dress | B(l)onded into celibacy ... Read More