Turpentine is a type of tree. How could Martin not have known? He’d lived in Bamberg for eleven years – he should have known. ‘It’s true,’ Anne said, expansively, her …
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Dating App (D. Gilson)
In God we trust, all others send data. No fatties, no femmes. Dick pics? Can you host? Can you bottom? Can you get into roleplay? Sodom & Gomorra? Teacher & Student? …
The Flu Hour (Douglas Luman)
At the note of an owl’s hoot, a field mouse is made into a packet for its suffering. & here I set to nonsense, boiling a house worth of …
LOVE, CHOOKS, AND SOLITUDE: an interview with Nigel Featherstone
Nigel Featherstone has been our brave leader at Verity La for the past four and a half years, and in that time has published and promoted the work of numerous …
Thy poetry and thy pathos—all so strange! (PS Cottier)
The found poem hates the way the egregious disruptions of fashion have shaped his hideous form; a misshapen picaresque, he lurches. He is angry as blackbirds in a pie croaking …
My own private apocalypse (Oliver Driscoll)
I start with the irises. My sister-in-law was here on the weekend and called them chrysanthemums but she did not explain why. Later I eradicate the years between 1768 and …
Breathing significant life into proceedings: Robert Harris’ An Officer and a Spy
Review by Robert Goodman The blurb for An Officer and a Spy refers to its subject – the Dreyfus Affair – as ‘the most famous miscarriage of justice in history’. …
Bloodbaths and Romance: Lenny Bartulin’s Infamy (Robert Goodman)
Review by Robert Goodman The Western is making a comeback. That venerable tradition of horses, six-shooters and life on the frontier is being reimagined in a more visceral form. From …
The Exclusivity of Cupcakes: How I Cooked My Way through Heartbreak (Erin Holmwood)
Kissing don’t last: cookery do — George Meredith On the day Max broke my heart, I baked a cake. While I greased and lined the spring-form cake pan I thought to …
Just a Little Bit Brilliant: Anthony Macris’ Great Western Highway – a love story
By Tristan Foster One thing is clear: we live in strange times. The influence of the market has seeped into every facet – every wrinkle – of our existence, leaving …