Mad Poets Archives

Mad Poets Workshop Winners: The Wollongong Writers Festival

Verity La November 18, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Poetry

Spinning By Kyra Thomsen I spin myself into a frenzy legs lurching in and out like a spider building a web unravelling my inner-silk exposing my underbelly. The tea is …

VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 4: Ben Frater

Verity La October 21, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Verity La Poetry Podcast

BEN FRATER: This month we’re celebrating the work of Ben Frater with our Clozapine Clinic Co-editors Tim Heffernan and Alise Blayney. To kick off, Tim shares his plans for the upcoming …

BEN FRATER AND THE MAD POETS OF THE GONG

Verity La October 12, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Heightened Talk

By Tim Heffernan It is significant that the poetry of Benjamin Frater is reprised for the 2016 Wollongong Writers Festival and that he will be an integral part of the …

The Artistry of the Amputee Dancer (Lawrence Shapiro)May 18, 2018
Darting eyes flicker back and forth across a barren stage The gazelle prance in rapid motion One lower extremity present One lower extremity absent Shock waves at the barren amputee ... Read More
Ta Da! We Present Verity La Mark IIJune 22, 2018
Dear readers, we’re back — with Verity La mark II! She’s shiny and new but still full of all the original goodness from our previous site, and them some. Take ... Read More
The nature of loss <br>(Audrey Molloy)August 9, 2019
Widow-makers, they call your boughs that plunge without warning, crush soft bodies beneath. Yet I know you are not death but grief’s balled fist come down. For seven years I decompose below your ... Read More