Axiology (Anne M Carson) ‘There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen If I was ceramic I’d be kintsukuroi, pottery which has been …
A Sorry Memento, or Sorry Lamento (Teena McCarthy)
The night bird sings its mourning song. The day beckons, light through shadow. It feels hollow but sinks me and a kind of weight follows reaching into every crevice. ‘Don’t …
POETRY IN THE MINEFIELDS (Iraqi poets translated by Haider Catan and Tim Heffernan)
(edited by Ramon Loyola & Michele Seminara) An Extract from the Introduction to The Poetry in the Minefields By Abdulrahman Almajedi, Iraqi journalist and poet living in the Netherlands Organizers of …
Made For You (David Adès)
‘You’re not good enough for any woman,’ Miranda screamed. ‘What you need isn’t a woman: it’s a blow-up doll.’ Even Chester acknowledged it wasn’t his finest moment. Whatever heat there …
How to Knit a Human (Anna Jacobson)
Cravings I don’t wear a watch in hospital. I count time by meals. A nurse hands me a Milky Way bar after ECT. I hold it in my lap; look …
OUTSIDERS, INSIDE OUT (Amanda Hickey)
(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) Your own eyes are king. —Estonian Proverb Sydney, 1991 I looked for her first in the garden where she would often be working—planting, weeding or …
The Lumen Seed (Judith Crispin)
The Lumen Seed opens onto an apocalyptic scene. A hardwood mulga tree, reaching for the sky, holds a placard: “The Lord’s Return is Near”. In Coober Pedy, a curved handmade …
Trees Without Passports (Mark O’Flynn)
Between two palm trees thick with starlings the horizon flattens the waves beneath the sea’s heavy rag. Here before we were, the ocean runs downhill from the perpendicular of one …
CATCHING UP WITH A COMMUNICATIVE UNIVERSE: Michelle Cahill’s Letter to Pessoa (Angela Serrano)
Letter to Pessoa is Michelle Cahill’s debut collection of short fiction. The stories are told from a single, often first-person perspective, with many written in an epistolary format. The narrators …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 6: Melinda Smith
MELINDA SMITH: In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan and Managing Editor Michele Seminara chat with Melinda Smith about her new book, Goodbye Cruel, just …