1. Teeth in a jar, corks screwed to arthritic fists. A ten-mile stretch of frozen sky reflected in it. They stoop there, anchored, boy & old man pocketing scrap from …
Paper Riddles (Lindsey Danis)
(Edited by Callie Doyle-Scott) Freshman year of high school, someone hands me a note and a piece of candy. I eat the candy but puzzle over the note. Really it’s …
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (Gayelene Carbis)
Lessons On Life From My Sister In First Year I just want to enjoy things I don’t want to think about them. don’t you do anything for fun you can’t …
THE HEART OF AUSTRALIAN DARKNESS: An Interview with Mark Brandi
Verity La is all about new and exciting voices in Australian literature, so allow us to introduce you to Mark Brandi. Mark has been published, broadcast and shortlisted in journals …
I text you a photo of my knitting (Tricia Dearborn)
the knitting lies curved along its cable it rests on the pattern which covers my journal in which is secreted my dream of two nights ago the one where I …
The Ship (Nathan Curnow)
The radio says there’s an overnight storm arriving at 1am, so he sets the alarm clock on the floor of his room, beside his mattress in the bare apartment. After …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 7: David Stavanger
DAVID STAVANGER: In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, our Podcast Producer Alice Allan and Clozapine Clinic Editor Tim Heffernan talk with David Stavanger about the launch of …
Lyricism, Imagination and Vigour: Michelle Cahill’s The Herring Lass (Reviewed by Ben Hession)
(Edited by Robyn Cadwallader) It has been a long time between poetry collections for Michelle Cahill, but her latest, The Herring Lass, proves the wait has been worth it, with …
White Noise (Beth Spencer)
those clouds I could almost touch and the tickety-tick of talk at ten-thousand ‘tea? tea? tea?’ the steward mows down the aisle spoons clinking paper on screens a …
Poems From Glasshouses (Stuart Barnes/Leigh Backhouse)
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