There’s a cove. A house straggles a sagging beach, where behind a patched blind the Hendrix version of All Along the Watchtower sends its summons through the wave speakers. God …
Fudgepackers (Daniel Young)
“Fudgepackers!” said John, referring to our American corporate overseers. The spaceship-like Polycom phone had only just made a final crackle before falling silent, so my offence at him using that …
Safety of shells (Meredith Pitt)
Bivalves diffuse force to their outer edges while screw-shaped shells send the pressure to their outer rings The soft creature is protected from the crushing reality of a weapon in …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 1: Phillip Hall
PHILLIP HALL: Each month, the Verity La Poetry Podcast talks with a member of our poetic community. We discuss a poem they’ve published in the journal, as well as hear about a poet they admire. …
Flesh Memory (Elisabeth Murray)
(Edited by Michelle McLaren) Her skin crawled with sweat. She gathered her shirt and let the hot air seethe up her spine, to her bra, to her lymph nodes, where the …
The Bridge I Must Walk Across (David Adès)
The Bridge I Must Walk Across Is this what it means to be lost? Stuck inside my skin — unable to shed it, unable to grow another — I am …
Breaking News (Justin Lowe)
there had been no end of rumours of a coup. plates kept clattering in the palace kitchen, the linen-beaters worked strange hours, people began to talk of a giant stalking …
Easily the Hardest Thing (Jane Downing)
Was there any normal anymore? The others in the waiting room were at either end of a spectrum, tottering on an unfair seesaw between the obese and anorexic. The woman …
Madera Ranchos (Emily O’Grady)
I eat Peach Jewels warmed on a tea-stained paper plate, fleshy centres rich as yolk— yellow shell flakes and falls like confetti on insect-flecked cement. And though the copper lab …
Poems from Borroloola Poetry Club: Diwurruwurru (Phillip Gijindarriji Hall)
Borroloola is remote town located in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory. It has a population of around 600-700 people in the Dry Season; and approximately 800-1000 people in the …