(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 …
Poems by Juan Garrido-Salgado and Ariel Riveros Pavez
(edited by Ramon Loyola) Changing Places to Sleep Not for Political / Security Reasons After the Reading at Sappho Last Night By Juan Garrido-Salgado To Beth Spencer and Claudia Taranto …
Love Song (Sandra Renew)
beneath her scarf, her honour— everything lowers to its haunches, puffs out its cheeks vulnerable to reality even hope sinks. I would blow my hope alive with my last breath …
The Right Amount of Danger: Benjamin Dodds reviews Sarah Holland-Batt’s The Hazards
Sarah Holland-Batt has made a friend of variety. As we saw in her debut collection Aria and see again in her follow-up work The Hazards, she well and truly embraces …
Mercury (Ben Hession)
Estrangement has its latitudes, the most hospitable to residency, here: trembling, trying to avoid extremes — every day you are busy celebrating two birthdays, slowly, you can have your medication and …
Numb Enough to Be Removed Forever (Hasti Abbasi)
(edited by Michelle McLaren) I exit Amir’s car at the hospital. My eyes are drawn to a glowing baby in a pram as I enter the toilets. Her mother is …