What happens when poetry and art mix? Magic, that’s what! On 4 November 2018, twenty poets gathered to read their ekphrastic poems to a full and appreciative house at the …
The Motel No Vacancy (Fiona Hardy)
I moved across from the hotel when I was seven years old and my mother gave me to her parents, like a late Christmas present, just before the New Year. …
IN MEMORIAM RAMON LOYOLA 10.06.1967-12.09.2018
On 12 September, 2018, Verity La editor, poet, and our dear friend Ramon Loyola passed away suddenly from a brain aneurysm. On 30 September Verity La held a memorial gathering …
And Now, Tenderness (David Adès)
And now, tenderness, should it come, should it ever come again, unsolicited, from an unexpected quarter, should it be felt and recognised, will break over me like a wave, dissolving …
1,000 (Robin Gow)
I’ve done the math. 884 is the number of masses I attended between when I was born & when I was 17. If you think about holy days that’s at …
Stories Uncovered, Stories Untold (Wendy Chen)
Edited by Ramon Loyola Wenzhou, China — January 2017 Ye Ye, my paternal grandfather, sits silently in the living room, seemingly weighed down by multiple layers of thick jackets, wool and …
Blemished (Andy Jackson)
Blemished from the Rabbinic scriptures and a Buzzfeed article A hunched back could be a misshapen eyebrow. Withered could also be dwarf. Some of our problems are to do with …
THE BUILDING BLOCK BOY (Joe Davies)
The room was large, high-ceilinged and poorly lit. There was a lamp on the desk and another beside the mattress in the corner, both were on, but the light they …
Jandamarra (Brenda Saunders)
High walls of sound ring the gorge once more children whisper sacred notes in language sing to heal their wounded land, call up the Unggud Junba. A Great Snake returns …
Make Me (Janet Marie Rogers)
Artist’s Statement ‘Make Me’ is an erotic poem with a developed performance which borrows from Indigenous ceremony and brings in sensuous elements that exemplify the grounded and tactile nature …