Three words. Three tiny, banal words that had somehow – among the tens of thousands of others spilt in the cafe that morning – made their way through the clashing …
Poems Coming in Fast: Jill Jones’ Ash is Here, So are Stars
Review by Lucy Alexander Jill Jones once confessed that there was a time when she wanted to be a rock-star[1], and there is something of this in the flavor of …
Friendship (Gemma White)
At Meredith we stayed up all night listening to doof doof cyberpunk music and I saw you cry for the first time, at four in the morning bottle of ice …
BEHIND THE FESTIVAL LINES: an interview with Michaela Bolzan, founder and director of the Southern Highland Writers’ Festival
As a new feature of Verity La we’ll be going behind the scenes and interviewing the lesser-known, unheralded movers and shakers in Australia’s literary world. The first cab off the …
Watch Every Drop: a community service announcement composed for those who survived the Fall (Kirk Marshall)
There’d never come a newly-minted, indignant crimson-kissed day in this place which didn’t evoke some dark, frost-sorry memories to that time when we still had water. I can’t speak for …
Getting Caught in the Fundamentalist Machine: Timothy Mo’s Pure
Review by Robert Goodman Timothy Mo had a brilliant early career: three books in a row shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1982, 1986 and 1991 showed a prodigious range. …
Departure Gate (Anthony Macris)
Christina’s gone. In the corner of the bedroom are the cardboard cartons to be sent on to Brisbane, where she’s gone to be with her family again. The day after …
Crimson Encounter (Gemma White)
I am seeing red. Bright red nail polish on my toes as they stick out from your doona. War-time red lipstick brightening my mouth, smudged now from your urgent kisses. …
HOPE VERITY FITZHARDINGE: we honour you
Sorry to break into our usual rhythm of transmission, but something important has happened in Verity La-La-Land, and we want to share it with you. It all comes down to …
Just a Little Bit Brilliant: Anthony Macris’ Great Western Highway – a love story
By Tristan Foster One thing is clear: we live in strange times. The influence of the market has seeped into every facet – every wrinkle – of our existence, leaving …