Artist’s Statement Although my art practice explores many different subjects, an ongoing preoccupation is capturing women in landscape. With their identities hidden and glowing bodies melding into the …
Spit Hood (Teena McCarthy)
for Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller and all those held in detention and suffering deaths in custody Oh, such a pretty picture this Kingdom of the Crown. In a dark …
Common Tongue (Miguel Jacq)
i. A weekday, cocooned somewhere in my twenties, one father and his son suspended in a lift shaft an everyday moment, a faraday cage moment until a phone call makes …
WRITING BACKWARDS: Susan Hawthorne’s Dark Matters
Review by Lucy Alexander Edited by Robyn Cadwallader What if it was you who were woken by the crash of your door falling in the early hours of morning? Just …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 13: Jordie Albiston
JORDIE ALBISTON: In this episode of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan and Poetry Co-editor Robbie Coburn talk with Jordie Albiston about the relationship between poetry and …
Three Poems by Frank Webb (Oliver Miller)
I grew up on Sydney’s leafy lower North Shore. Taking out a dinghy from old Joel’s Boatshed at the end of our street, making the long row over to Wreck …
AHEAD OF HER TIME: Verity Fitzhardinge Remembered
Review by Amanda Hickey Edited By Robyn Cadwallader Verity Fitzhardinge (née Hewitt) was a woman of all seasons: as a writer she crafted poems, articles, letters, book reviews, books and …
Why You Stopped Making Things (Lucy Dougan)
The Wallpaper The wallpaper was a forest. You had put it up with your father. You let me into the new dappled world behind your desk. When you sat in …
George’s town pt. 2
Artist’s Statement ‘George’s town pt. 2’ explores distance, diaspora, and the hidden truths of familial betrayal and the taste of disappointment. Footage from a trip to Hong Kong in 2014 …
26 Outings
1. Friday evening, as my husband and I are getting ready for bed, I tell him I think I’ve fallen for a girl. That night we have passionate ‘I can’t …