Artist’s Statement ‘The Mask’s Weight’ is a poem written during the COVID-19 pandemic and during Melbourne 6th COVID lockdown. It explores the idea that wearing a mask is a lesser restriction …
Let It Not Be This (Jen Chen)
Long Bay Hospital On the first visit to my client, not guilty by reason of mental illness, Long Bay Hospital extracted biometrics for their security system, digital fingerprints and snaps …
We All Have Our Stories to Tell: DIVING INTO GLASS by Caro Llewellyn reviewed by Samantha Connor
Review by Samantha Connor Edited by Robyn Cadwallader George Orwell once famously said, ‘Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful’. It’s why I read Diving into …
Isolation (Rose Lucas)
Isolation makes me nervous at the edge how will I be who will I be without you …
The Immortals (Jenny Pollak)
Artist’s Statement This video poem is a work that began as an immersive sculptural installation comprised of three video projections falling across the floor, walls and ceiling of the Manly …
An Interview With Toby Davidson: Four Oceans
Four Oceans, Toby Davidson’s second collection, confirms his reputation as one of the most expansive and radical voices in the emerging generation of Australian poets. It moves from Western to …
An Interview With Saddiq Dzukogi: Your Crib, My Qibla
Saddiq Dzukogi with Verity La Poetry Editors Michele Seminara and Robbie Coburn Wineglass When your mother found strands of your hair hung up in the teeth of your comb, your …
Clytemnestra (Justin Lowe)
those gleaming vessels of fate the well-lived the sanctified bestowed the luxury of a death off-stage a servant’s scream from the wings those parvenus who don’t carry …
(Motel Ghosts) Audrey Molloy
Motel Ghosts Ever wonder where they go? The souls of the extinct—not the bones of pipistrelles, finer than eyelashes, the rufous down of boobook owls or starry pelts of quolls, …
BLOODSHOT HEART (Reviewed by Andrew L. Urban)
In a world where the difference between reality and fantasy can be hard to discern, Hans, a middle-aged driving instructor, attempts to shake off the manipulative grasp of his Italian …