BEN FRATER: This month we’re celebrating the work of Ben Frater with our Clozapine Clinic Co-editors Tim Heffernan and Alise Blayney. To kick off, Tim shares his plans for the upcoming …
AN ABSENCE OF STARS: an interview with Bruce Pascoe (Jade Richardson)
Australian author Bruce Pascoe writes in the dark arts of true story. His latest work, Dark Emu, shatters myth, open wounds and shines a radiant light across the dark matter …
cobalt (Jordie Albiston)
Co–nclusion: following find in 1982 by local sponge diver Mehmed Çakir & 11 campaigns {over 22 000 descends} the Uluburun drowned in the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the …
BEN FRATER AND THE MAD POETS OF THE GONG
By Tim Heffernan It is significant that the poetry of Benjamin Frater is reprised for the 2016 Wollongong Writers Festival and that he will be an integral part of the …
Breakfast at Bethany’s (Craig Billingham)
Turpentine is a type of tree. How could Martin not have known? He’d lived in Bamberg for eleven years – he should have known. ‘It’s true,’ Anne said, expansively, her …
BHP (Be Humble Please) (Teena McCarthy)
(painting & poetry for Nanna) black by day white by night this broken ol’ town all battered and burned high gutters in case of a storm silver & gold yes! …
SUPPORTERS: WE NEED YOU!
Yes, we need you. And your financial support. Verity La was established in 2010 as a writer-run initiative. We publish some of the best writers in the country, alongside many …
INsects (Anna Spargo-Ryan)
On windy days she went back to the building to find the shreds of skin he had left there. She caught the elevator to the top floor. It swagged in …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 3: PS Cottier
PS COTTIER: Podcast Producer Alice Allan and Managing Editor Michele Seminara get straight into it with Canberra-based poet PS Cottier. Does entering and judging literary competitions put you on a special …
The Incandescent (Chris Lynch)
And you. When you saunter in, glowing like a tomboy, blue as a blowtorch and blazing. Made of glass you would shatter, but born of fire you can burn, like …