‘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, …
HONEST TRUTHS AND SHADOW WORK: an interview with Holden Sheppard
Some writers plug away for years, if not decades, slowly building a body of work, maybe growing a readership, perhaps even gathering an accolade here and there. And then there’s …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 15: Rebecca Jessen
REBECCA JESSEN: In this episode of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan talks with Rebecca Jessen about her first collection Ask Me About the Future, out now …
THE SPACE BETWEEN MOUTH AND MICROPHONE: SOLID AIR (edited by David Stavanger and Anne-Marie Te Whiu)
Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Solid Air is an anthology covering the last ten years of spoken word and performance poetry in Australia and New Zealand. It is the first such …
Under the Corn (Emma Maguire)
I am picking soft tomatoes from the vine when I see the old woman for the first time. Our house squats stubbornly among cornfields that stretch far and flat to …
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 …
Do My Boobs Look Big in This? (Liz Hall-Downs)
Edited by Kathryn Hummel Do my boobs look big in this? The truth is, my boobs always look big. Regardless of what I wear. I have big boobs. Bazoombas. They …
Hypomanic Satori Behind the Wheel (James Redfern)
every face ever in time conceived is now displayed on the bright yellow leaves on the bright yellow ginko trees lining both sides of the highway and as I drive …
Love (Moz/Mostafa Azimitabar)
Curated by Saba Vasefi Moz (Mostafa Azimitabaris) is a Kurdish refugee who fled from troubles in his homeland and arrived in Australia in 2013. He was forcibly transferred to …
You Are Not a Burden (Damien Becker)
You Are Not a Burden (Despite (the sacrifices (carers are truly (held to ransom by (economic rationalism and (the right to (your story as …