(a) Humpty Dumpty rocked on the well, Humpty Dumpty tumbled to Hell. The King’s twelve fledglings, the King’s four colts couldn’t put Humpty together, the dolts. (e) ‘Baa, baa, …
ANNOUNCING THE 2012 VERITY LA READERSHIP SURVEY: tell us what you think
Miraculously, Verity La is heading into its third year and we want to hear your views about what’s working for you, adored member of the Verity La community, and what …
LOOKING UP ELEPHANTS' TESTICLES: an interview with P.S. Cottier
P.S. Cottier, also known as PS Cottier, also known as Penelope Cottier, is a poet and short story writer who lives in Canberra, the national capital of Australia. Her book …
Smart and Taut Exploration of Modern Warfare: Andrew Croome's Midnight Empire
Review by Tristan Foster LinkLock, a technology company based in Canberra, has developed a method of encrypting and securing data feeds in a way that makes them theoretically impossible to …
How My Father Got His Robotic Hand (Jacqui Dent)
It was in the summer of 1995 and my father was working in a top-secret IBM water lab off the coast of Wollongong. Thanks to classic films like Deep Blue …
Blessing (brand-spanking new radar poetry from the completely marvelous Nathan Curnow)
It came rushing toward me across the paddocks all I had to do was stand—the moment roaring silent and ancient, collapsing into bloom. How it called to no one, especially …
Homesick (Cassandra Atherton)
Every second Saturday you go home. You still call it home. Like a homing pigeon. Even though your home is now with me. Your instinct is always to head …
WORKING AN INVISIBLE THREAD: an interview with Irma Gold
One of the great things about online journals is being able to keep in touch with the literary world’s movers and shakers, the people who work their arses off to …
Flicker (Kevin Brophy)
The last shadow left quietly, almost without personality, flickering as it left like a movement from a horse at the far end of a paddock caught in the corner of …
Preaching to the Converted: Garry Disher's Play Abandoned
Review by Robert Goodman Garry Disher has written across a range of genres but is best known for his award-winning crime series – the Wyatt books about a roguish thief, …