The 2020 Spirit of Self Expression poetry reading took place on 27 September at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The event featured 22 works by a broad and exciting range …
Updates To Verity La’s Publication Schedule
Dear Readers, A quick update! Verity La’s publication schedule for 2020 has undergone revision. We’ll now be publishing all forthcoming works from our contributors this year in November. …
Statement from Verity La
Dear all, Verity La is deeply sorry and apologises unreservedly for a work of creative non-fiction that we published last month. We fully accept that, in its depiction of Filipino …
Double Paradise (Okwudili Nebeolisa)
Though I was asleep your voice slit through me like a scythe, I was enjoying the dream. I wished the water was like glass and that I could sit on …
What Choice (Susan McCreery)
Edited by Michelle McLaren Sour owner brings me my cup. Perhaps it’s my demeanour that provokes his demeanour. Or that fact that I am not a bat-eyed dew-skin (there goes …
Mind Goals (Mohammad Ali Maleki)
June 20 is United Nations World Refugee Day, a day where we hold the 25.9 million refugees of the world in our thoughts. Refugees around the world have made and …
DRAWING ON THE LAND: GARIGAL COUNTRY (Michael Glasheen)
(Feature image: a portrait of Michael Glasheen by Juno Gemes) Michael Glasheen has been a pioneering force in the fields of experimental film and interactive media since the late 1960s. …
Untitled (Luke Patterson)
(edited by Phillip Hall) I’m not even sure how to speak my father’s Country or tame the river dog’s cunning drag to the bog bottom of reconciliation. But I tell …
THIS BIG SOVEREIGN RENAISSANCE — FIRE FRONT: First Nations Poetry & Power Today (ed. Alison Whittaker)
Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Whittaker tells us in her introduction to this anthology of First Australians poetry that ‘it’s a cliché to say that Indigenous poetry is powerful’. What is …
LADY OF THE MURALS (Stephen Oliver)
‘The memory of you keeps calling after me like a rolling train.’ — Bob Dylan & Sam Shepard: Brownsville Girl ‘Out of a headstrong cloud column emerged one square-rigged ship, …