(edited by Tim Heffernan & Alise Blayney) 20:20 My world is controlled By numbers I see them everywhere Like some numerologist Or lost mathematician Descartes with his planar thought I’m …
Forecast (Jamie Alcock)
I am under the silence of a silent migraine yet before me are seas of blessed days. click. In the future eagles nest in cardboard boxes and women …
Digesting Grief: Krissy Kneen’s Eating My Grandmother: a grief cycle
(edited by Robyn Cadwallader) In Krissy Kneen’s 2009 memoir Affection, her grandmother Dragitsa Marusic (aka Lotty Kneen) was introduced as the family’s best storyteller, and as a person who did …
Rabbit on the Promenade (Ariel Riveros Pavez)
Rabbit on the Promenade in homage to JS Harry Umwelt of responses and in the substrates below a silt of muted action. There are inaudible gasps bouncing in echo chambers …
UNTWISTING YOUR OWN TONGUE: an interview with Roanna Gonsalves
Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP, 2016) a collection of short fiction exploring how the newly arrived find their place in a new land. Her series …
Apologies, I forgot you exist (Fleur Beaupert)
On the verge of this sheer pink dress fits my childhood fantasy glass slipper | Inside it I’m so brown I’m clear White gold un dress | B(l)onded into celibacy …
Damboon (Belinda Rule)
It was just Suzy and I, in the end, who drove down to Damboon on the Friday night. I picked her up after work in the big old navy-blue bogan-mobile …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 5: Anne Elvey and Phillip Hall on Ecopoetry
ANNE ELVEY AND PHILLIP HALL: If you’re thinking birds, trees and butterflies, take a seat. Join Anne Elvey, our Black Cockatoo Editor Phillip Hall and Managing Editor Michele Seminara as …
Trainwreck (Miguel Jacq)
Worlds away in the grey harbour of St Nazaire my second cousin reveals railway tracks encased inside shipyard walls — an over-engineered defence of resolute rust; the only steadfast structure …
The Mother Load: Consolation and Happiness in Lorraine McGuigan’s Blood Plums and Lucy Williams’ internal weather
Review by Phillip Hall These two books from Walleah Press explore our intimate familial relationships in ways that prize domestic security while interrogating the many things that would threaten it, …