grandmother. dawn begins a golden thread circling the dark earth and coils us back from dreams like deep sea divers inside diving bells breaching surface, breath-fog …
Unearthing Hidden Histories: an interview with Claire G Coleman
Born in Western Australia, Indigenous author Claire G Coleman was raised in a Forestry’s settlement outside of Perth and identifies with the South Coast Noongar people, as well as having …
Glossopteris (Sophie Finlay)
bands of earth etch the transantarctic ranges cold geological burials we are linked through the exoskeletal — cambrian shells coil, mineralised bodies, the trilobite and then there is glossopteris — the …
The Art of Leaving (Miki Laval)
(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) The man who opens the front door is naked except for the towel around his hips. He seems surprised to see her and takes a quick …
SPEAKING THE UNNAMEABLE AND UNKNOWABLE: Meera Atkinson’s The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma
Reviewed by Amanda Hickey Edited by Robyn Cadwallader In her timely book, Meera Atkinson opens with a few unpalatable facts about our society and the world we live in. Fact …
Night Drive (Nike Sulway)
1 In early autumn we are driving home together midnight fog steaming up from some unseen fault in the world the headlights catch at a dead wallaby humped over the …
YEARNING FOR JUSTICE: an interview with Sara Dowse
Sara Dowse is a prize-winning Australian novelist and reviewer. Born in Chicago, Dowse grew up in Hollywood, the daughter of an actor mother and celebrity lawyer father. After experiencing anti-Semitism, …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 8: Tricia Dearborn
TRICIA DEARBORN: In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Managing Editor Michele Seminara chats with Tricia Dearborn about the many poems of hers we’ve published over the past …
OCHRE LINES: Us Mob Writing (Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Samantha Faulkner and Lisa Fuller)
(edited by Phillip Hall) Through the looking glass by Kerry Reed Gilbert Creation surrounds me As I walk upon hallowed land Red dirt claims me The sun burns brightly on …
FREE POETRY (Janet Galbraith and Writing Through Fences)
ABOUT FREE POETRY Writing Through Fences is a group made up of writers and artists who are, or have been, detained in Australia’s immigration detention prisons, along with others who …