streets have a saliva sheen, the stones bathing in it. fog is school-pants grey, thick on the tongue. the older trams shudder until they stop and the conductor retires. drunks …
The remembered, the haunted, and the differing (Robyn Cadwallader)
The Abbotsford Mysteries is Patricia Sykes’ third poetry collection. A surprising title, perhaps, for a book about the girls who were cared for at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, home …
The Remembered, the Haunted, and the Differing: Patricia Sykes’ The Abbotsford Mysteries
Review by Robyn Cadwallader The Abbotsford Mysteries is Patricia Sykes’ third poetry collection. A surprising title, perhaps, for a book about the girls who were cared for at the Abbotsford …
The World-Swimmers (Patrick West)
For days now you have been driving across unbroken grassland, which you know you’ll never be able to leave behind forever, no matter how fast you might go, or …
What it’s like to want to write when all they want is for you to sing (JL Shenstone)
There came a time in my life when I had to face the fact that I was never going to relate to most of the population. They go to work, …
VERITY LA: The next step
Dear Verity La subscribers, readers, visitors, The Sydney Morning Herald recently acknowledged Verity La as an ‘increasingly influential’ literary journal, and indeed, Verity La has been evolving since its inception …
THE NEXT STEP
Dear Verity La subscribers, readers, visitors, The Sydney Morning Herald recently acknowledged Verity La as an ‘increasingly influential’ literary journal, and indeed, Verity La has been evolving since its inception …
The Poet Said Fuck On Stage (Tiggy Johnson)
The poet said fuck on stage. It doesn’t sound like anything extraordinary and nor would it have been, but for the context and the fact that her mother sat …
HARD NOTES OF WAR: a review of Valence by Susan Hawthorne (Lesley Lebkowicz)
War has always been a subject for poetry – for all forms of literature – in every culture, in every time. It’s been examined, glorified, abhorred. Rarely does a writer …