Dali and the Department of War

by Tim Slade

A metal beak opens: rewriting history,
hairpin maneuvers of flight, sparrows
nest peacefully inside a dead motor.

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  • Back to You (Es Foong)Back to You (Es Foong)
    Artist’s Statement ‘No light, no sound, no air, no touch….’ Some people read this piece, as a love story, a poem about longing. And some people experience it as something ... Read More
  • The Grand Reopening and The Blessed Affliction (Toby Davidson and Mark Reid)The Grand Reopening and The Blessed Affliction (Toby Davidson and Mark Reid)
    Australian poets Toby Davidson and Mark Reid speak to Verity La La editor Michele Seminara about their new collections, The Grand Reopening and The Blessed Affliction. You can read a poem ... Read More
UNpersoned Podcast

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An archive of writing committed to artistic independence, freedom of expression, and resistance to ideological conformity.
  • I am a Palestinian Child (Badaoui El-Hage & Zeina Issa)I am a Palestinian Child (Badaoui El-Hage & Zeina Issa)
    Seventy years and spring has not yet arrived. For seventy years, our windows and doors brought forth revolt after revolt and we churned the tune of every song into an ... Read More
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    Images from ‘Census‘, an exhibition of Instagram photographs from around Sydney’s Inner West, showing at Scratch Art Space, 11 – 24 December, 2014.  Carmel Byrne is an Artist based in Sydney, Australia. ... Read More

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