DAVID ADÈS: In this edition of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan chats with David Adès about US poet W. S. Merwin along with David’s time spent …
These Things I Know (K W George)
I know things about this man. I first met him seventeen years ago when he removed a BCC from the right side of my forehead. That time I had staples …
The Dilemma of Job, or Hope into the Wilderness (henry 7 reneau, jr)
The Great Migration is the parable of dispossession pursuing a Northern star. Leaving rock-salted sorrow to come to terms with dignity deferred. Leaving hate, too long in place, that had …
Portrait of a Departed Lady (Amanda Anastasi)
Funeral plans: a wall crypt underneath her mother’s; pink roses on the pew ends. A house-size increase upon the exodus of children, husband, friends, dissention. Her disdain for the coverings …
Dissociative Mythology (Eleanor Claire)
lie to me tell me you always / knew my karst / topography, my limestone bones / tell me you seduced from me / the cyphers to my unbecoming / …
Lifeguard (Grace Finlayson)
On Tuesday afternoon, two weeks into the summer holidays, I watched the old women swim laps of the 50-metre pool. Up and down the lanes they went, swimming freestyle and …
The Journey Back (Gayle Kennedy)
One of my earliest memories (and one verified by mother and various relatives) is of me standing on a table surrounded by smiling people as I sang the old country …
Oh Lucky Me (Jill Jones)
Inside me is stuff I’m not sure anyone can explain. Each day another statistic dances as a testament to clickbait and big Pharma. So what are all my chemicals doing …
AN INFINITE LINE (Emma Fielden)
ARTIST STATEMENT Gravity and Lightness II 2018, drawing, archival ink on Arches paper, 76 x 56cm. Photos by Document Photography. An Infinite Line (1km) 2017, 1 kilometre of hand cut linen thread. …
In the Palm of Her Hand (Katie Monteleone)
Megan is small. Megan is born six weeks early and Megan is small enough to rest in the palm of her mother’s hand. Megan is small enough to ride on …