Such a little room line by line to keep my honeyeaters in Walls held by feather and spit If I feed them enough I will be reborn able to hold …
Daddy and Arnold (Charles Bane, Jr.)
I can tell you this because my father’s gone. I was lawyering in Chicago when I got a phone call that my Dad was dying. The caller told me that …
Concourse for the Borroloola mob (Phillip Gijindarraji Hall)
In my troopie dodging dogs, ditches and broken bikes I’m at a camp of concrete blocks, crushed soft drink cans and verandas strewn with mattresses: here each building’s bound …
The Stars 2015 — Verity La Style (Rachael Nielsen)
CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): You’ve turned having a lot of dreams but no outcomes into an art. But of course you’ve made no art. You approach everything like …
Behind the Scenes at Verity La
Six months ago, one of my poems, ‘Grand Mont’, was published in Verity La—I was chuffed. While checking out the site I noticed the journal was calling for volunteers to …
LOVE, CHOOKS, AND SOLITUDE: an interview with Nigel Featherstone
Nigel Featherstone has been our brave leader at Verity La for the past four and a half years, and in that time has published and promoted the work of numerous …
Summer Noir (Carmel Byrne)
Images from ‘Census‘, an exhibition of Instagram photographs from around Sydney’s Inner West, showing at Scratch Art Space, 11 – 24 December, 2014. Carmel Byrne is an Artist based in Sydney, Australia. …
Our Lady Godiva (Laura McPhee-Browne)
I was the kind of kid who made it hard for people to like me. That’s what my dad always said, to my face in front of any old person …
two horse race (Ashley Capes)
whenever I catch a glimpse of them warming up for another round of backchat I feel all the politics run out of me i n cartoon speech bubbles filled with …
servant elitism2 (Lachlan Brown)
coal seems to be an economic formality but it’s just another charred paradigm the pogram gift figit fight if it bleeds we can (yes) sell it as china tries to …