(edited by Kathryn Hummel) Just under two years ago, I forged a slippery path along a forgotten country track half a mile from my family home in County Clare on …
A LIFE’S JOURNEY: Noel Tovey’s And then I found me
Review by Brenda Saunders Edited by Robyn Cadwallader And then I found me is the story of a creative and talented artist fulfilling his dream. Noel Tovey traces the challenges, …
Deadspeak (Jennifer Liston)
Deadspeak Lycanthrope It’s that time of the month again: time to open the lowest drawer of the dustiest dresser. Sit awhile. Gaze at gauze enfolding precious. Peel it back, fingers …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 9: David Adès
DAVID ADÈS: In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan chats with David Adès about US poet W. S. Merwin along with David’s time spent …
These Things I Know (K W George)
I know things about this man. I first met him seventeen years ago when he removed a BCC from the right side of my forehead. That time I had staples …
The Dilemma of Job, or Hope into the Wilderness (henry 7 reneau, jr)
The Great Migration is the parable of dispossession pursuing a Northern star. Leaving rock-salted sorrow to come to terms with dignity deferred. Leaving hate, too long in place, that had …
Portrait of a Departed Lady (Amanda Anastasi)
Funeral plans: a wall crypt underneath her mother’s; pink roses on the pew ends. A house-size increase upon the exodus of children, husband, friends, dissention. Her disdain for the coverings …
Dissociative Mythology (Eleanor Claire)
lie to me tell me you always / knew my karst / topography, my limestone bones / tell me you seduced from me / the cyphers to my unbecoming / …
Lifeguard (Grace Finlayson)
On Tuesday afternoon, two weeks into the summer holidays, I watched the old women swim laps of the 50-metre pool. Up and down the lanes they went, swimming freestyle and …
The Journey Back (Gayle Kennedy)
One of my earliest memories (and one verified by mother and various relatives) is of me standing on a table surrounded by smiling people as I sang the old country …