Review by Amanda Hickey The Albury family of Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay are about money and social standing, and although they appear prickly and self-absorbed, it is the father’s eightieth birthday …
Art of Deconstruction (Julie Maclean)
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 …