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, …
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 …