Fitzroy North 3068

By Yvette Henry Holt

Just as sea urchins are aligned
with the biological calling of a
mustardy full moon rising
so too are poetesses

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  • Sea Country (Sophie Finlay)Sea Country (Sophie Finlay)
    wax and wane deep in the trench ancient reefs lie submerged — their skeletons remember when the cryosphere stretched taut over continents these drowned cities gleam grey like marcasite — ... Read More
  • The nature of loss <br>(Audrey Molloy)The nature of loss <br>(Audrey Molloy)
    Widow-makers, they call your boughs that plunge                    without warning, crush soft bodies beneath.  Yet I know you are not death but grief’s balled fist come down.  For seven years I decompose below your ... Read More
UNpersoned Podcast

Tune in to the UNpersoned Podcast where managing editor Michele Seminara unpacks what's happening in the arts and literary scenes with guests from Australia and around the world. 

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The Vault

Fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism published in Verity La since 2013.

An archive of writing committed to artistic independence, freedom of expression, and resistance to ideological conformity.
  • The Bridge I Must Walk Across (David Adès)The Bridge I Must Walk Across (David Adès)
    The Bridge I Must Walk Across Is this what it means to be lost? Stuck inside my skin — unable to shed it, unable to grow another — I am ... Read More
  • Measure (Eileen Chong)Measure (Eileen Chong)
    Everything we write will be used against us or against those we love. ‘North American Time’, Adrienne Rich The innocence of cornflowers — a dimpled, wheel-thrown cup. Glazed on the inside. ... Read More

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