I didn’t want anything more. In the little aboriginal house, the shower fell with the cup of water that was evenly distributed. I wanted you there. You were there. Our …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 2: Ian McBryde
IAN MCBRYDE: In this month’s Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan and Poetry Co-editor Robbie Coburn talk with Ian McBryde about his poems ‘Orchid’ and ‘Serpentine’, his book Slivers …
Carolina (Greg McLaren)
Shogun from Royal Headache, in the clip for Carolina, hawked and spat out of their monochrome practice room into colour Petersham — Fed Era red brick Reg Mombasa through Sydney …
Your Writing Tastes Like Blood (Gemma Ann White)
(For Robbie Coburn) Sacrificial. Long stroke of metal across your chest. Caged. Hot-toed animal wanting to escape. Fear. Incriminating as the first monthly bleed. Gone. Mind so very far from …
Green Dream (Joe Dolce)
Not absinthe or a world without global warming, the barbiturate Nembutal illegally imported, mail-order, in perfume boxes from Mexico, Peru, Bangkok, Beijing, Tijuana (destination of choice for death tourists) available …
Australia’s Conflict of Values over Live Exports: P.S. Cottier reviews Backlash by Bidda Jones & Julian Davies
Review by P.S. Cottier As I was reading Backlash, the NSW State Liberal Government and the ACT Labor (with a dash of Green) Government announced that they would both abolish …
Sea of Souls (James Walton)
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. …