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 …
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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 …
Hard Notes of War: Susan Hawthorne's Valence
Review by 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. …
The Pre-Dentist Not Wearing Red (Lara S. Williams)
She says she will soon be a dentist. She likes teeth and is fascinated with their decay. At the Canada Bay Private benefit she attracts a crowd of followers who, …
Guns N'Coffee (A.S. Patric)
I work in the middle of the damned city. I start when every other son-of-a-bitch is about to clock-in as well. It doesn’t matter where I go, I can’t get …
Neal Stephenson's Reamde reviewed by Robert Goodman
Neal Stephenson, one of the Godfathers of cyberpunk and deliverer of massive, engaging tomes full of historical and philosophical fun returns to the present day, real world (of sorts) with Reamde. The first …
Good Guys and Guns: Neal Stephenson's Reamde
Review by Robert Goodman Neal Stephenson, one of the Godfathers of cyberpunk and deliverer of massive, engaging tomes full of historical and philosophical fun returns to the present day, real world (of sorts) …
FROM DEEPEST DEATH TO FULLEST LIFE: an interview with Patrick West
LAURIE STEED You are noted as saying it’s essential a short story ‘spend time in the foreign territories of the writer before it is midwifed onto the page’. How would …